As the two explore the cliffs around the river, Issun helped familiarize Amaterasu with the environment, and gave her the nickname "Ammy". Issun also demonstrated that he knew the Celestial Brush Technique Rejuvenation and wished to learn all of them. When they reached the actual river, however, it was dried up. Exploring another path, they discovered a mysterious constellation in the sky. One star of the constellation was missing, so Issun attempted to draw the missing star.
He failed, but Amaterasu used her own Celestial Brush to restore the constellation, releasing the Brush God Yomigami , holder of the Rejuvenation Brush Technique which Amaterasu once possessed.
She used her new technique to restore the river and clear the path forward, but Issun remained ignorant of her ability. The two progressed to the Cave of Nagi , where Nagi was enshrined. Amaterasu repaired Nagi's statue with her brush, revealing another constellation. The god Tachigami then appeared and granted her Power Slash. Only then did Issun realize Amaterasu's brush skills. Knowing that she could find all the brush techniques, he openly declared he would stick with her until she had learned all the Brush Techniques and he had copied them from her.
The two then returned to Kamiki and cut down the fruit, restoring the village. The village had returned to normal, but the sky was still as black as night. Exploring the quiet streets, Amaterasu discovered all the villagers had turned to stone. After hearing another roar, Amaterasu headed to a sacred deck at the top of the village. She then rediscovered her own unique Brush Technique, Sunrise , and lit the skies once more the village was then restored.
There she met Mr. Orange, the town elder. After defeating the demons that were plaguing the village Amaterasu went back to the village. Amaterasu and Issun could see the villagers were now back to normal.
However, the village exit was blocked by a huge boulder. Destroying the boulder would require the assistance of Nagi's descendant, Susano. Susano, however, did not fit with the traditional stereotype of his ancestor and was instead a lazy drunk. After waking him up, Amaterasu was forced to bring him sake from the village's sake brewer, a beautiful young girl named Kushi , a descendant of Nami.
Eventually, with Amaterasu's help, Susano sliced the boulder in half and opened the way out of the village. Shortly after this, he ran out of the village, claiming to be in pursuit of monsters. Just then, Sakuya appeared before Amaterasu. She pleaded to Amaterasu to restore the Guardian saplings and lift the curse, before vanishing, exhausted. Amaterasu and Issun ventured out of the village in search of the saplings. They soon found the first sapling, in Shinshu Field right outside the village.
The mighty tree had been withered by the curse, which had spread and blocked a large portion of the field. Even Amaterasu could not stay in the cursed zone too long without losing all her powers.
Monsters had been drawn to the cursed zone, and their Demon Scrolls littered the field, attacking passersby. Only one inhabitant of the field, the Nameless Man , was outside the cursed zone and had escaped the curse. Talking to him, he directed them to Hana Valley , a beautiful valley which was now cursed.
However, the valley also contained a magic orb which could restore withered trees. Realizing the potential of the orb, Amaterasu and Issun ventured into the valley.
Luckily the valley's curse was minor enough for living beings to withstand, so Amaterasu and Issun could explore safely. However, all wildlife had been destroyed by the curse, and the water was polluted and brown.
This sapling's curse was so great it had been reduced to a tiny little sapling. Following a path off the sapling's chamber, they discovered Susano and a sleepy bear Later dubbed sleepy by Issun. After a short cutscene, they recovered the mystical orb Sleepy had been standing on it and Susano ran off again.
They returned the orb to its altar and used the power of sunlight to use it on the tree, but all it did was return the tree to its withered adult state.
Completing it, the god Sakigami, one of the Hanagami trio of flora gods, appeared and granted Amaterasu Bloom , a Brush Technique which could restore withered trees or make plants bloom. Using it on the Guardian Sapling, Amaterasu was able to restore it and lift the curse. The pair returned to Shinshu Field and lifted the curse there too, using Bloom on the Guardian Sapling. Sakuya's tree instantly perks up and regains its leaves, but Issun wants to explore the field before returning to Kamiki Village.
Exploring the field, they find a pyrotechnic workshop belonging to Tama , the Flaming Pyrotechnist, a fireworks maker. The workshop is shut during the day, so they return at night. After helping Tama finish his latest firework, the constellation of the god Bakugami appears.
He grants Amaterasu the explosive power of Cherry Bomb , which creates a devastating bomb. The two also visit the entrance of the Moon Cave where Orochi resides.
However, a barrier blocks the entrance, preventing entry. Amaterasu and Issun then return to Kamiki to check on Sakuya. When they return, they find the whole village celebrating Konohana's sudden recovery. However, Sakuya herself does not appear, and Issun fears the worst.
On the sacred deck, they find the village elder, Mr. Orange, performing the legendary Konohana Shuffle which may be able to revive Sakuya. With the help of Amaterasu, he completes the dance, making Konohana blossom. It is then that Sakuya returns: in a skimpy bikini. Sakuya thanks Amaterasu and returns to her tree to protect the village. After that, another constellation appears. This time it belongs to the second Hanagami trio of flora gods: Hasugami, master of the Water Lily technique.
Using it, Amaterasu can now cross large bodies of water without getting wet her only weakness, as she can only swim for a limited time. The forest has also succumbed to the evil curse. Exploring the forest, she meets Madame Fawn , a bone-reader who can predict the future.
Amaterasu later finds the sapling in a cave blocked by a rock which needs a Cherry Bomb. Going back outside, she hears a mysterious flute. The sound is coming from Waka, who reappears in front of Amaterasu. However, she doesn't seem to remember him.
Issun finds Waka strange, and is shocked to hear that he can see Amaterasu's true form: something only those of pure heart can see. Waka abruptly attacks them. Amaterasu defeats him, but he does not even seem tired and says she is "a big disappointment", noting she has lost most of her powers.
He then tells them about Orochi's release, stating that he saw a strange figure remove Tsukuyomi. He also says that it is the same person who blocked off Kamiki with a rock and that person was inside the village when the curse struck. He then leaves a cryptic prophecy for Amaterasu about a log which he says will help her in her current quest and flies of using his curious headgear.
Issun dismisses him as a freak. Exploring the green and peaceful forest, they meet a hunter named Karude. Karude tells them that the bridge to the next area, Taka Pass , was destroyed in a recent storm.
Karude is trying to get his slacking son to fix the bridge, but the son is too busy playing with his dog, Ume , to do it. They also find Susano, who is training to defeat a powerful demon menacing Taka Pass rumored to have followers, crimson something or other Crimson Helm. However, he cannot reach the pass until the bridge is fixed. Amaterasu and Issun find the son, Kokari , fishing at the lake in the forest. Kokari reveals that he has lost Ume in the ruins at the edge of the forest, Tsuta Ruins , and is trying to rescue him.
Issun asks him why he doesn't just go into the ruins, and Kokari reveals he also lost the key to the forest when he ran out of the ruins after hearing some terrifying roars and left Ume behind. Kokari starts crying, but Issun snaps him out of it and convinces him to try fishing.
Amaterasu then uses her brush to create the line from the fishing rod to the fish. They eventually fish out the Giant Salmon, which coughs up the Ruins Key. Kokari tries to take it, but Amaterasu grabs it instead and enters the ruins with Issun.
Inside the ruins, they discover the ruins' water supply is contaminated with a deadly poison which also destroys Water Lily pads, making it impossible to swim across or walk across. After exploring more of the ruins, they clear the poisonous water and regain the last Hanagami flora Brush Technique, Vine , from Tsutagami in a cave in the lower half of a giant Dogu statue in the main room.
Getting to the top of the statue by using the technique on Konohana Blossoms, they find several hooks on the statue's head. Attaching vines to the hooks, the top of the head is lifted off and a new way opens. Venturing into the head, Amaterasu and Issun discover a passage leading from the head into the wall, which in turn leads into a large cave containing an equally large flower. Issun believes the flower is filled with treasure like the other treasures they have found in the ruins and hops right into it, but suddenly sees a dog trapped in it.
A dark apparition starts to encircle the flower, so Amaterasu quickly leaps forward and saves Issun. The apparition shoots an energy blast at them, but Amaterasu escapes with just a few hairs singed. The apparition at first resembles Orochi, but then dissolves to reveal 8 legs, all belonging to the hideous spider demon, the Spider Queen , who is one of Orochi's servants. The Spider Queen then transforms into a beautiful blossom, freeing Ume. Outside, they return Ume to Kokari.
Kokari initially believes Ume was frightened by the ruins, but Issun reveals Ume actually seemed to like being in the ruins, and seemed to be trying to show Kokari how anyone, even a dog, could do brave things. Kokari realizes that Ume knew that he was too scared to fix the bridge his father wanted to him repair because he thought he'd fail, and Ume was trying to inspire his confidence. Ume then presents Kokari with Karude's fishing rod, which Kokari had lost long ago in the forest.
With his confidence restored, Kokari rushes off to repair the bridge. Amaterasu and Issun find Kokari lassoing the other end of the bridge with rope using the fishing rod, but just at that moment, Susano comes racing along on a log, after failing to master an experimental secret technique "Imploding Barrel, Flying Monkeys". He plows right into the rope, launching Amaterasu, Issun and Kokari into the air and onto the log. Amaterasu uses the Konohana Blossoms along the river to attach vines to the log, pulling it backwards right before it would have fallen over a waterfall.
Kokari, Amaterasu and Issun land back at the side of the river, but Susano is launched somewhere else. The log lands right between the two banks of the river and becomes the new bridge. Kokari is inspired by this, and regains his faith.
Amaterasu and Issun then cross to Taka Pass. On the way to the Guardian Sapling, Amaterasu encountered Waka again. He battled her again, but Amaterasu's improved skills managed to tire him out. Before leaving, he told them of how to remove the barrier protecting the Moon Cave: with a mysterious relic called the Serpent Crystal.
After leaving another cryptic hint about a 'dog-gone difficult quest', he mutters about a big windmill and disappears. Proceeding into Kusa Village, Amaterasu discovered that, inexplicably, the village was still cursed. Amaterasu's ink was drained by the stagnant air, and she was reduced to her mundane white wolf form.
Exploring the village, Amaterasu found the source of the curse: a Blue imp which was possessing the head priestess of the village. Amaterasu managed to defeat the imp without her powers, restoring Kusa Village and regaining her abilities in the process.
However, the sky was still as dark as night regardless of the time of day. The priestess, Princess Fuse , revealed to them the cause of the dilemma: Crimson Helm the demon Susano had mentioned earlier , which had been warning the priests of the village for years.
However, the year before, Crimson Helm had killed the head priest while he was weakened by illness and claimed the village's shrine, the Gale Shrine , as its residence. There was only one hope for the village: the Eight Canine Warriors who protected the shrine and could break the barrier that Crimson Helm had put at the entrance of the shrine.
The warriors had been scattered in recent years and would not respond to Princess Fuse's summons. Princess Fuse could sense the presence of five of the warriors in the village, but was unable to find them. Princess Fuse begged Amaterasu and Issun to help her find the warriors and gave her the Canine Tracker , a device capable of locating the Canine Warriors.
Following the tracker's signal, Amaterasu and Issun set off. The tracker led the pair to a cave. Within, Amaterasu and Issun discovered a dog. Speaking to the dog, Issun discovered the dog was hungry and required food.
After being fed, the dog revealed that it was one of the Canine Warriors, and ran off to Princess Fuse. Amaterasu ventured through the rest of the village following the Canine Tracker, finding three of the other dogs along the way. The Canine Tracker then led them back to Princess Fuse's house, where they found the fifth Canine Warrior lying in wait for them. Unlike the others, this Canine Warrior challenged Amaterasu to battle, questioning her right to hold the Canine Tracker.
Amaterasu defeated the dog, who then returned to Princess Fuse. Three warriors still remained to be found outside the village, however. XD In Japan, she was kind of designed to be genderless, but that's a lot easier to do in Japanese than English, what with us and our funny gender-based animate pronouns. Game completion can happen in under 30 hours, if you're quick and don't stop to explore much at all. Go for completionism - finding every item and stray bead, for example - and it'll take you more like User Info: bhawkins.
There are several threads already about game length, so I'll just let you look those up. In Shinto mythology, Amaterasu is portrayed as a woman. However, this Amaterasu is technically genderless, although some characters refer to Ammy as a boy or a girl in the game. When discussing the game, most people seem to call Ammy a girl.
Really, it's up to you. The game averages about hours. Dominant wolves do that the same way, males and females. It's about dominance, not what genitalia they have. Once you realize this, you, as the player, have another reason to defeat Orochi: to somehow make Susano-o a better person by coming to terms with his ancestral legend. Amaterasu and Kushinada push Susano-o to accept who Nagi is a better warrior and who he himself is the lesser warrior, but still with the potential to become better.
He started this mess the releasing of darkness over Nippon , so it is up to him to come to terms with the history behind it and move forward. Susano-o striking Orochi in the final battle. Again, the player has to draw the actual attack. In the myth, Susano-o simply asks for Kushinada—someone he has never met—as a wife, and the parents agree without any say from Kushinada herself.
In Okami , on the other hand, Susano-o and Kushinada lived in the same village together for a while. They each have feelings for the other, though neither expressed them initially.
Susano-o and Kushinada already love each other, and it is your job to help that love come to fruition. Susano-o, however, remains much too scared through most of the game to even approach Kushinada, running away from his responsibilities; thus, it is up to Kushinada herself to step up to the challenge of both solidifying their relationship, and, ultimately, saving the world from Orochi. I seek help from neither god nor demon!
The heroic bloodline of Nagi is all I require to slay you! This is a proud moment for Amaterasu, Kushinada, and the player: Susano-o finally has finally taken control of his own fate and responsibility.
Original art of Susano-o after defeating Orochi left , Kushinada saved far left , and Amaterasu relieved right. It is an eight-headed dragon, with each head in control of a single power: fire, ice, pollution, etc. It manipulates Susano-o into releasing its seal, and in turn curses majority of Japan and threatens to eat Kushinada as its first meal.
Every time the monster is mentioned, eerie music and chanting plays, and the sky darkens in malevolent-looking swirls of black and red ink. The cursed zones spread across all the land, casting mythic Japan in a dreary tone and scene. Instead of writing one or two lines about the terrible beast, Okami creates an entire atmosphere around Orochi, building it up as one of the toughest and most sinister enemies and making giving the battle against it incredibly high stakes.
In the game, Amaterasu must fight Orochi with about a third of that power. We are Eight. He kills the one child of Izanami for whom she actually showed affection before she died, making Susano-o seem more like Izanagi than he would ever want to be.
Artwork of Orochi from Okami , with blood dripping from all eight heads. In the original myth, both the maidens and Orochi get very little recognition: Orochi is only described as it approaches the sake and appears as another demonic beast, and the eaten maidens are only mentioned, for the myth assumes them to be dead already.
Each maiden has a unique form of punctuation in the text to distinguish between her and the monster. Over time, Orochi realizes that it wants all of the sisters to join together, and the sisters agree, wanting to be one with each other. The goals of the two versions of Orochi differ in complexity. In Okami, Orochi tries to rule over Nippon and cover the land in darkness, devouring the sacrificial maiden every years to restore his power.
He is a typical boss monster, with a goal that is antithetical the very essence of Amaterasu, the sun goddess. When the protagonist is a literal manifestation of goodness, then the antagonist basically needs to be an incarnation of pure evil. The player is responsible for controlling and molding the personality of the avatar, and it can be hard to do this with a simple and pure avatar if your enemy if anything more nuanced than absolute darkness.
If Orochi finds Kushinada and swallows her in its eighth head, then it will achieve its complete form, having consumed all the maidens and absorbed their bodies and thoughts. In the original myth, Kushinada was obviously opposed to this idea, but in the novel, she actually wants to be eaten by the beast. Orochi, however, is in a dilemma: the more it consumes the sisters one-by-one, the more a pain builds in its stomach—the pain of holding too many bodies.
Its throats are clogged, and its belly bleeds red whenever it moves. Kushinada, in this story, is not an innocent maiden waiting to be rescued: she is definitely someone who needs to rescued, but she is rescued against her will. The contrast between the game and the novel is striking: one the player wants, the other the readers receive as a melancholy and disturbing outcome.
Being a sake brewer, she delivers her special brew around Nippon to all customers and is an essential asset to the plot: once the village is determined to stop Orochi, Amaterasu finds her at a spring next to a ridiculously large barrel that holds water for the sake; later, you discover she can carry the filled barrel on her back by herself and lug it all the way back to her village.
She also has an unspoken romantic interest in Susano-o, but she keeps it to herself when the man is bumbling around in a state of drunken vigor. Talking to Kushinada in the rice fields. Eventually, when Susano-o drinks her 8 Purification Sake and Orochi chooses her to be its first victim, Kushinada takes the first step towards defeating the horrid monster. She was very patient with Susano-o and his shenanigans in the past, but she eventually puts her foot down and tells him to get his act together:.
I know you can do it. Kushinada is neither angry nor upset when making this speech to Susano-o: instead, she is calm, collected, and determined.
She is the sake brewer who makes the one thing that can defeat Orochi, and she is the one who initiates the plan to get the beast drunk, for she does not want to die that day. Instead of 8 Purification Sake, she brings her own Thunder Brew that she created herself. Most importantly, she is the one who pushes Susano-o to do the right thing—to fix his mistake and defeat Orochi.
Immediately after she speaks to Susano-o, Kushinada rushes to her house, grabs her legendary Thunder Brew, and rushes out of the village. Or you, Snowy [Amaterasu]. Some scholars assume, based on archaeological evidence, that the prehistoric sun cult that occupied the region may have worshipped some incarnation of Amaterasu. The Imperial family possesses three holy relics that come directly from Amaterasu herself. Together, these relics are known as the Imperial Regalia of Japan:.
Yasakani-no-Magatama , the Grand Jewel, is a magatama , a curved beaded or jeweled necklace common during the prehistoric Japanese period prior to the 4th century. It is thought the Grand Jewel was lost during the Genpei War ;.
Dedicated to Amaterasu, this shrine houses the Imperial Regalia and was an important site of pilgrimage throughout the Edo Period — There are several sections of the shrine where only priestesses and members of the Imperial Family may pass. Another shrine, Amanoiwato Shrine in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, is said to be near the gorge where Ama-no-Iwato, the cave where Amaterasu hid herself from the world, can be found. The three deities were born as he washed himself: Amaterasu from his left eye, her brother-husband Tsukuyomi from his right eye, and storm god Susanoo from his nose.
Though the parentage of her children is unclear, Amaterasu is thought to have had them with her husband, Tsukuyomi. Thus, the bloodline from Amaterasu to the Imperial family can be reliably traced from the 7th century up to the modern era.
Tales of Amaterasu appear in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki , which relate the mythological origins of the universe and the birth of Japan as an empire. From the mists of time emerged two deities , Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto, the divine male and female gods of creation. This second, successful attempt yielded a multitude of kami , spiritual beings representing the natural world and the islands of Japan.
The last of these beings—fire—subsequently killed Izanami. Seeing his rejection of her, Izanami flew into a rage and attempted to chase him past the gates of death; however, he managed to block the gates with a boulder.
Izanami swore that if he left her there, she would kill one thousand people every day. Disgusted by the taint of death that lay upon him , Izanagi found a pool of pure water nearby and bathed himself in it. As he washed his left eye, Amaterasu emerged, fully-grown and glowing with the light of the sun.
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