Since I had the time, I went ahead and finished off Okamiden! Below is the rest of my commentary for the game:


- OKAY THEN LET’S HEAD ON
- And, in that grand tradition, we are re-fighting previous boss battles!
- Except this time with a different partner
- That was easycakes!
- Oh, so this is the point where I’ll have to leave a partner behind D:
- Oh noes, Nanami in trouble!
- D’awww Squiddy is here to save the day!
- Which means we’ll be fighting things that are weak to water, hopefully
- Yup, it’s all fire-based dudes
- Oh and some thunder ones
- I suspect another boss battle is coming our way...
- Aaaand we defeated evil catfish again!
- But now we must leave Nanami behind D:
- Saved Kagu!
- Of course, we had to stop and get all the treasure first
- REPEAT OF ANOTHER BOSS BATTLE COMIN’ UP
- Man, a lot of switches in this area
- But now it’s to the boss
- Man I hated this guy the first time
- BUT YAY KILLED IT ANYWAY
- Hmmm, who’s that waiting for us...
- Oh sheesh not THIS guy!
- MIKO POWERRRRRRR
- But haha yeah pwned that boss battle this time
- No actually, coulda been worse
- Wakaling, what will you do now
- Oh come on, flying is a neat power
- Now we have to fight him? NNNNNGGGGGH
- TWO OTHER PARTNERS?!
- And Ishaku too
- You hurt Chibi’s feelings! D:
- YOU GUYS JUST DON’T UNDERSTAAAAAND
- Ohhh dear
- HE’S THE DARTH MAUL OF WAKAS
- ISHAKU IS MY PARTNER
- Wakaling fights a lot like original Waka now
- Wow I totally pwned Wakaling
- Glad it’s easier to do cherry bomb in this game @_@
- BUMMER
- Wakaliiiiiiing D:
- Oh come on!
- Chibi just cries 8(
- OH NO VORTEX OF DARKNESS
- Of course Chibi is willing to forgive, he’s a kind god!
- I mean come on, little baby god of the sun, gives light and life to everything on earth
- He doesn’t really discriminate
- Oh no it’s possessed!Kuni D:
- GUTPUNCH’D
- Chibiiiii don’t let yourself get beat up! D:
- OH CHIBI DX
- FRIENDS TO THE RESCUE
- SORT OF
- That’s a really big meteor D:
- YAAY KUNI FIGHTS BACK
- GET OUT EVIL EYEBALL
- ...Is that
- TWO YAMI HANDS
- DDDDDDDDDD8
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- HE WAS SCARY ENOUGH AS ONE HAND
- I FIND YOUR TEAMWORK TO BE IRKSOME
- And now, MORE EVIL
- It’s...a mirror
- Oh dear where do I think this is going
- …..EVIL CHIBI
- OH NO D8
- IT’S A HEARTLESS VERSION OF CHIBI
- AND EVIL PARTNER
- ECLIPSE!?!?
- OHGOD THIS IS NIGHTMARE FUEL
- YESSSSS FINALLY WON
- THAT WAS NOT THE FUNNESS
- Oh Kuniiiiiii D:
- NOW HE IS AN EVIL EYE AGAIN
- Oh please don’t
- WHY YOU DO THIS, WAKALING
- Woah that was more nightmare fuel
- Ohhhh snaaaaap
- WAKALING NOOOOO D:
- Oh so Wakaling WAS a clone D:
- DESTINY MESSES UP THINGS A LOT
- Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 8(
- Chibi: I DUNWANNA 8((((
- Nagi armor! :O
- And his sword, too
- He looks remarkably in tact for being cut in half D:
- ...Sob DX
- MEMORIEEEEEES
- CRYING EVERYWHERE
- FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS
- Bawwww crying puppies I cannot even stand it 8(
- Yup crying now too
- I MEAN COME ON
- CRYING PUPPIES
- WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH CRYING PUPPIES
- I guess we are...back in the present now?
- ON A JOURNEY TO THE PAAAAST AGAIN
- So what is Chibi going to do now? I mean, I don’t think he’s going to go back to the Celestial Plain like Ammy...
- Oh Susano D:
- Susano, stop being a doof!
- Seriously Susano, what is up with you
- He got Nagi armor and everything
- OH SNAP
- So Kuni will have...step-brother I guess, if he comes back 8(
- Chibi: Eeeeexcuse me?!
- Sheesh Chibi, don’t leave this kid alone!
- YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME THAT WENT ON
- IT’S NOT LIKE YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DO WHILE AMMY IS FIXING UP HEAVEN
- SO JUST GO WITH
- Chibi: This has been a very hard day 8(
- And it’s Sakuya
- Puppy kiss!
- Oh hello unexpected UFO
- OH ISSUN
- OF COURSE
- Oh wow Sakuya says he can go off to the Celestial Plain
- Chibi: SURE I WANNA SEE MOM
- I guess Chibi IS going to the Celestial Plain then...
- Hi Kagu being a great actress
- And Nanami enjoying her mermaidy self
- And Manpuku enjoying all the food ever
- HELLO LITTLE GIRL WHO IS NOT SICK ANYMORE
- ...Scholar lady all alone :(
- Except for a flute
- LOOK TO THIS DAY, GRADUATE
- WE’RE BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAIN
- Oh I can smell your sequel setups
- I CAN SMELL THEM FROM HERE
- Huh, further adventures of Kuni I suppose
- C-C-C-CREDITS ROLL
- ALL OUR FRIENDS
- Chibi, why are you so adorable
- I GUESS THAT IS
- THE END
- These be my battle stats
- Could have had less deaths and more enemies defeated...
- But I got a pink tree for awesomeness
- I got a gift from Ishaku!
- I got cool things! I...don’t know what they do!
- Umm...I guess I’ll save my completed game @_@
- If I get new things next time
- *goes to look at the gifts*
- It’s adorable arts and some music!
- So now, the game is over.
- ...
- *Bawwwwwwwwww* T_T


So, since I've finished, here's my final thoughts:


- I enjoyed the game a lot! It's definitely worth getting, especially as a DS game. Seriously, get this sucker.
- Did I like it better than the original Okami? Eh, I don't think so. There were many things I liked about it, but overall I liked the original better. It's pretty hard to top the original, though, which is why "didn't like as much as the first" still equals "awesome game you should get."
- However, one thing that WAS better was drawing with the celestial brush. I could throw around cherry bombs in battle much easier than before, and just drawing around things was a cinch. There's a huge difference between actually drawing on something and fumbling around with the PS2 controller or even the Wiimote. (On the flipside, this did mean that the game was less forgiving than the PS2.) But yes, this kind of drawing was really made for something like the DS.
- There was sooooo much stuff in this game that was just downright adorable. Dripping with cute. It's like they took all of Okami and just turned the cute up to ten. It's difficult to not melt from squee at all of the little baby gods.
- This game was pretty much a close copy of the original, except with a few changes: you had partners that helped you on many things, mostly on navigating dungeons. While Ammy had more basic dungeon crawling, Chibi had a LOT of mazes and puzzles to solve. I was surprised at the number of mazes in this game, although it makes more sense for them to be here than with Ammy. The easier-to-use-brush (and the guidance brush) makes it possible to do mazes.
- Bosses here were harder, IMO. It was pretty easy for me to get through all of Okami without dying once. Here, I died four times while on easy mode. But man, some of the bosses (King Fury, Sen and Ro) were a huge pain to deal with.
- I feel like I missed a lot of sidequests, but it's possible that's just because there weren't as many, aside from sending people off to the cool village. The world was less explore-able than Okami, but that's probably because of the limitations of the DS engine. There was still plenty to do.
- There were plenty of time paradoxes and I'm a big sucker for those, so glee. X3
- I dunno how I feel about all of the ending. :( I cried at the end of this like I did for Okami, except for really different reasons. The ending of Okami was triumphant and hopeful, when everyone comes together to pray for Ammy and grant her her full godhood...it was like, "crying with hope" sort of tears. The ending of Okamiden was a lot more bittersweet, what with losing Wakaling Kurow and that death scene being surrounded by friends. And then with Kuni leaving without Chibi, and Susano basically cutting off from him because of it, after all Susano did...that bit somehow didn't feel right. D: Obviously they were trying to set up a sequel with Kuni, but they don't need another tangent! I mean, I STILL want to see Ammy actually restoring beauty to the Celestial Plain, too! That was the first sequel-we-set-up, except then we focused on Chibi for this game! Not that I'm complaining, just! Kuni leaving all on his own felt off compared to the rest of the game, which was all about TEAMWORK AND FRIENDSHIP! So I was bawwwwing for very bittersweet reasons at the ending of this one. Again, hard not to cry when the adorable puppy was crying. :(
- Overall, I enjoyed it...a nice follow-up to the original, definitely had the same production value, just dunno how I feel about the ending. Get it anyway!


And now, I should probably get to beds soon...