During yesterday's Game Awards, Capcom announced a sequel to cult classic 2006 action-adventure game Okami, and it boasts the involvement of one of the original game's most important figures.
In a brief trailer shown during the Game Awards, Capcom confirmed that Okami 2, which is currently known simply as "Okami Sequel", is officially in the works, and that original director Hideki Kamiya will return to direct the project.
The game's new official website sheds a little more light on the project too, although it doesn't give much away. According to the site, Okami 2 is being developed by "studios that include various staff members of the original Okami", including M-Two, Machine Head Works, and Kamiya's own Clovers.
In closing, Capcom says it "will be some time" before we get more information about Amaterasu's latest adventure, but that the studio "really hope[s] you look forward to this project". I can only speak for myself, but I'm absolutely hyped for this.
The trailer itself is fairly brief as well. It features Amaterasu herself sprinting across a field while Okami's distinctive music plays, and she's trailing beautiful flowers behind her, just like in the original game.
We then see a flower with closed petals as a paintbrush traces a thick ink circle around the flower, upon which it suddenly bursts into bloom. It's a reference to a paint gesture in the original Okami, in case you haven't played it.
You can check out the debut trailer for Okami 2 here. I don't know about you, but just seeing this minute or so of footage made me weirdly emotional.
Okami 2 wasn't all Capcom revealed during the Game Awards, either.
As well as a revival of one classic PS2 franchise, we're also getting another in the form of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, a hack-and-slash action game that looks like it owes more than a small debt to FromSoftware's Sekiro.
Reviving Onimusha makes a lot of sense given that the animated series based on the games debuted late last year. You can check the trailer out for Onimusha: Way of the Sword right here.
We'll bring you more on both Okami 2 and Onimusha: Way of the Sword, as well as everything else Capcom is up to right now, as soon as we get it. Stay tuned.
