Okami Sequel Announced, Will Be Directed By Hideki Kamiya

AHHHHH. OMG. Most exciting gaming news in foreverrrr for me. OMGGGG!!

oh.

SICK.

_{also it's nice to see Kamiya's back in the industry again. might mean we'll get a new Viewtiful Joe.}

About time, like...Okamiden was okay, but it felt more like a watered down Okami 1.5 or something. lol

This was the announcement of the night, (barring Okamiden) I’ve only ever been waiting FOREVER for the proper followup / sequel after that ending!!

Okay this is good. Now THIS is a Capcom game that I can see coming to Switch 2.

And now its time for me to ACTUALLY play the Wii copy I bought some years back.

Oh my gosh yes yes yes yes yes!

While I still haven’t finished okami (and I’m definitely going to just do a new file) but loved it so much I still wanted a sequel to have when I finished! I’m so happy, I’m so hyped!

EASILY the star of the show, unless Half Life 3 is truly announced here lmao.

I sincerely and unjokingly hope it's shorter than the first game.

I wanted to love Okami, but god it feels about 30 hours longer than it needs to be.

I know, I just saw it! A 3rd game is something I never expected! Eeee!

Oh this ain’t coming for a WHILE. Still a fantastic reveal.

I own Okami HD. Haven't played it.

The fact that the teaser gave me chills as I realized what it was is signaling to me that I should get on that before the sequel releases, huh

Did he create his own studio? It sounded like it.

Talk about an unexpected announcement. Huge news!

@Lightsiyd Sounds like they might resurrecting Clover?

Okami was fine as one game. It didn't need a sequel. And apparently, they're ignoring the DS game.

The original was one of the most beautiful yet underrated games I've ever played! Time to replay it!

@MirrorFate2 you can actually see the bones of what they originally planned to include at the end of the game but had to cut, I hope they will use those shelved ideas in the sequel because I always felt like there was something missing

my honest reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48DAPF8OfJ0

I'm so glad to finally get a sequel. Now I just need an Okamiden port. Such an underrated gem.

@LadyCharlie Okami is about 30-40 hours long, which is comparable to Legend of Zelda and other similar games. Maybe it's not your type of game, which is a shame because it's world is easily one of my favourite ones. It offers more hours of gameplay, but it's optional things to find an see and without them it will lose a lot of it's charm.

I think Capcom won this Game Awards with this announcement

While it’s great and all that Capcom is developing a new Onimusha game, I still cannot fathom why they won’t do a remaster of the remaining titles they have yet to put on Switch.

Despite watching The Game Awards by myself, I clapped when this was announced, lol. This was the highlight of the show for me. A little bummed they're only just now starting development though, so maybe it would have been better to wait a year or so before confirming it. But the important thing is, we know it's coming! The original Okami is honestly probably my second-favorite Zelda game...despite not actually being a Zelda game. I got it for dirt cheap in a Switch eShop sale back in like 2018 or 2019 and didn't know what to expect, but I was blown away. I kept thinking the game was wrapping up, but it just kept going with interesting new locales to explore. Such a delight, that game was.

Best announcement of the whole show next to Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

Well damn, hell is doing some serious freezing today. New Okami at last? And Kamiya? Guess he found work, the sly dog. Viewtiful Joe next?

I loved this game. I played it back in 2021. But it was so long. I didn’t finish it. But I got towards the end. At least, I think I did. I remember a kidnapped girl. A boss with multiple heads.

Kamiya's dreams do come true!

Now imagine further Capcom collabs....
Viewtiful Joe 3
GodHand 2
And I guess Devil May Cry 6 is still possible after all! Or a DMC2 remake redone by the original director

My mind is blown! I hope it lives up to its incredible predecessor!

I need to do the classic and slap myself to see if this is a dream.
New Okami game, and Kamiya working with Capcom again?! Lets go!🔥🔥

As one of my closest just said- “Something we didn't know we wanted. Well played.” Wise words.

I'm a much bigger fan of Platinum's games than I am of Okami, though in fairness, I had my expectations for the latter set way too high by whoever was out there calling it a better Zelda game than Twilight Princess a couple decades ago. Anyway, I hope Kamiya takes some of the experience from his more recent projects back to Okami and creates something I can really get excited for.

Wait are we switching from the doomer timeline to the hopefull timeline? All I ask for is no BS with this one capcom please. Okami holds a very special place in my heart.

Awesome. I was grinning from one ear to ear. Okami is a very special game. You have my support Kamiya-San!

I wanted to like Okami, but it had too many issues in the PS2 original. There's the intro that is nearly 20 minutes long and cannot be skipped. The gibberish language got tiresome as well, especially since the game is overly verbose. I found the "brush" to be unreliable(sometimes inexplicably so) which led to having to repeat annoying set pieces. I know the later versions fixed certain things. That's why I'm hopeful that the developers avoid some of the worst elements from the first game.

@LadyCharlie I know what you mean. Okami was not a game that respected the player's time all that well. I once came across someone who said that those who were bored in Okami should hang in there because the game got good after the first 20 hours or so. And I thought to myself, I think I'd rather play a game that's fun from the beginning.

With today’s tech, Okami’s artistry can only get better. Can’t wait to see how they bring it to life.

I still need to get to playing Okami on the switch… CURSE YOU BACKLOOOOOOG!!!

Looking forward to that. Okami and Okamiden are two of my favourite games. A shame Okamiden is being ignored so often, it's a great game with a better pacing than the original one.

As long as it is on Switch 2 and supports touch screen for the brush in portable mode, I'm happy.

Could never quite get into the first one,
will give this a try.

@Lightsiyd Yeah. His new studio is called "Clovers". There was an article about it in Famitsu.

Ooh, didn't have this one on my bingo list. Will definitely be getting it regardless of what platform it's on!

Amazing news. I finished Okami HD a couple of weeks ago. I loved the world and art style, but found the gameplay to be repetitive, the storytelling style overly infodump-y, and the pacing increasingly glacial. I can see this being incredible if the experience gained since the first can fix those issues. Modern QoL should also help streamline gameplay.

I did enjoy Okami, played it all the way through although at times it felt a bit of a Zelda Lite...this could be good!

Great news! I hope to see it on Switch 2. Teaser reminded me a little bit of the original Okami teaser.

Its crazy though: Never was a sequel possible, Kamiya leaves the studio and creates a studio with almost the same name (?) and POOF its possible! Well, as long as it is good (and hopefully arriving on Switch 2). Kamiya and people from the original staff are on board, so that's promising (and published by Capcom). And probably no Tencent involvement! But I guess Clover studios is gritting its teeth. Might be the nail in their coffin.

Wonder how it will look like. Its just a teaser, but it gives the impression that it is a different look. But still very beautiful.

If it is anything like the first game it's a bad game to start to revisit for Kamiya. Okami and Godhand are what sunk the first Clover studio. Making interesting games didn't translate to making games that sold well or even played well.
Hopefully there is a producer that can rein him in this time, but that is also why he left Platinum.

Surprised it took this long. Really was a gorgeous game.

Been so long since I played it on my Switch id be better off starting all over again at this point...

okay, this will be glorious

@roboshort Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.

Words cannot describe how long I've waited for this day! I'm so happy 😭 I just hope it acknowledges Okamiden since that game was great too (I doubt they will though)

This is now at the top of my most wanted list.

Sweet! Hopefully, they revamp the combat, or at least include a lot less of it.

Awesome. Loved Okami and Okamiden. Bring on no.2 baby

Yeah, that's not coming out for 4 years at least, since I'm pretty sure Kamiya's non-compete JUST ended

The one time in the show where I had a pulse (after Ninja Gaiden). I still need to finish the original.

Edit Wait I remember leaning forward in my chair and exclaiming "ONIMUSHA!?" So three things.

Best videogame news in a decade!!!

Between 200/2010, my second favourite game, after Zelda Twilight Princess.
By Hideki Kamiya, best announcement !

@sdelfin It's a sprawling adventure game. Complaining about that is like complaining that a tetris game is too repetitive. It's supposed to be big and give the player lots to do.

@RubyCarbuncle That doesn't make it a spin off. Maan, the logic twisting that some people will go to to justify their own lies and pretend that this isn't a sequel, just because they don't like it is ridiculous! Your opinion does not equal facts. 🙄 Okami has Two Games with a Third on the way. That's just the plain old truth.

Lots of sequels reuse formulas, while adding new elements and even characters. So your complaint doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Points to Capcom's Mega Man, Konami's classic Castlevania, and Gamefreak's Pokemon as prime examples

Excited for this one! I’ve been debating on replaying it, so when this has an official release date then that’s what I’ll be doing hopefully Okamiden comes to the Switch, that was a fun one.

Do you guys think this will come on the switch, the new switch, or both?

I cried tears of joy at the announcement last night and even this following day, I'm in such a chipper mood and can't wipe this smile off my face. A game reveal hasn't made me this happy since Pikmin 4 and I can't wait to hear more but I'm just fully content knowing Okami is coming back to us and with Kamiya at the helm. Life truly is great sometimes.

@Tempestryke I don't know what you're even getting at. That would make more sense is I just played Okami recently and knew what I was getting into, but I played it years ago and didn't expect certain things. I've played other adventure games that I thought had much better pacing if that's what you mean(I loved Wind Waker, even the sailing). Plenty of people like the game. Good for them. I'm just sharing why it didn't work for me. Incidentally, I've spoken to fans of the game who acknowledged my complaints were valid. Just saying something is sprawling doesn't mean anything. If you make a game big enough and long enough, you're going to lose some people that want things to go somewhere. Also, back then reviews weren't all that helpful as far as determining if there were elements in the game that weren't to someone's taste. I don't remember the PS2 box advertising "unskippable cutscenes and lots of talking", "mandatory 20 minute intro (with a story they tell you twice) before you can play" or "gets good in the second half"(again, paraphrasing what an actual fan of the game said). Note that I acknowledged that the remakes apparently improved some of those things which I give them credit for, and I'm hopeful enough that the sequel will be good, both for fans of the original, and even those that may not have liked it. And that's because several of the things I mentioned were trends in game development at the time it was made.

@Liam_Doolan Okami HD is on sale for only 4.99 right now, lowest price ever! Might be a good thing to append the article with!

@sdelfin Because you're complaining about a large adventure game being exactly that. I won't deny that it dragged around Ryoshima Coast, but plenty of games in that genre have areas like that.

Awesome news. What a pleasant surprise.

@LadyCharlie Second this. I did love Okami for what it was, but it really overstayed its welcome. It's going to be hard finding motivation for the sequel if it's a similar length, unless they change up the gameplay loop somehow.

Okami doesn't need a sequel. The game is so damn long it's practically two games already.

@Tempestryke To be clear, I took issue with the game's pacing, not the size or length. Also, when I played Okami, I was hoping for something that felt like Wind Waker, which had a pace I liked, but it was not that for me.

This is amazing. Now I hope we get a new Asura's Wrath

Hopefully for Nintendo too.
Tbh, I can’t recall why because the Wii days were so long ago, but I didn’t make it very far in the original game. After it had been hyped as a Zelda surrogate I was always going to be disappointed. Nonetheless I’d love to try the sequel.

Finally bought it, today, after seeing it for $4.99. Looking forward to seeing what all the high praise is about:)

No. Way. My inner child is screaming!! I've waited SO LONG for this day to come! And Capcom graciously enlisted Kamiya to return as the series' director! I cannot wait, and for sure I'm expecting a Switch 2 port. What a time to be alive, Switch 2 will finally house Kingdom Hearts, Okami and Monster Hunter all together.

TGA 2024 carried by Capcom and Sega.