[Spoiler] Just finished the game

[Huwusa]

It took me more than 40 hours because of me being exceptionally bad at the digging game and at figuring out what to do next. :") I considered finishing all the side quests I had left first, but in the end I just chose to finish the game.

The ending had a bitter taste for me, to be honest. I think it's because I never had any interest in Waka, yet suddenly everything revolved around this character, which was... kind of annoying, to be honest, especially when in the end Ammy is so affectionate with him. If Waka was meant to be such an important character in the story, then I'd have preferred the writers taking more time to explore their background. To me, having a major focus on Amaterasu alone, or at least on a character I got to know better (good examples are Issun, Oki, even Susano), then I would have felt way less disappointed in the ending.

...also, I would have liked it better if I didn't have to beat Orochi THREE TIMES. The other monsters were fine, but when I had to do this the last time it was just getting monotonous.

What is your opinion about this ending? Were you satisfied? Did you like it or would you have liked it better if it was different?

[Musk]

[[ This is gonna be full of spoilers, obviously ]]

The ending was a bit mixed for me. I liked Waka, but I agree the sudden focus on this character was a bit off. Though it didn't really bother me, I would complain more about the final boss fight. I fought bigass spiders, an 8-headed dragon, a flaming bull skeleton in samurai armor and a 9-tailed fox god, and the final battle is against a metal ball with a fetus inside. Maybe I'm just missing some important japanese lore to understand the importance of this fight, but it just felt weird to me.

What I did enjoy though, is the fact you get stripped of all your powers and how Issun finally decides to becomes the celestial envoy to save the day. So even though I didn't really like the fight with the final boss, it had these moments and cutscenes that were pretty cool. Also, in the original release the music playing in the credits was different, and I think it makes a huge difference. There's even a thread here with fans figuring out how to mod it back into this port, which was succesful btw. And here's the credits with the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE6070P_jyE
But yeah, mixed feelings about the ending. What I enjoyed most was just playing the game and all the surprises and cool story moments. I thought the game would end after the first fight with Orochi, and then thought so again after fighting Ninetails. It's awesome how they managed to make me feel like I played Okami 1, 2 and 3, all in one game. And I really enjoyed the going back in time part, when it turns out the legends that are told in the future were actually about you.

When I first played it years ago, it became my favourite game ever. Since then there was a couple other games that I loved even more, but Okami is still pretty amazing to me, even if it's far from perfect. Wouldn't really change anything about it ;)

[Digital Art Workstation]

Personally, I believe that the game was pretty great. Kept me busy and I liked the story even tho I was unaware of what was happening half of the time. I'm not gonna write a whole essay like the guy above but I will say that I do agree with most of his points. The only thing that was kinda of a letdown was that once you finish the game you restart from the beginning with all your stuff except those weapons you get from the bosses.

I would've liked it more if I got to keep everything, Save and have the option to restart like the ending did. Otherwise I could've gone around in my "Shiranui" form and talked to people. The people in faith and have extra dialouge and stuff. Talk to Issun and have a good time. Y'know, Kinda makes me sad.

[Doc Holiday]

In reply to Musk - the Fetus has big significance in japanese folklore, which this game is totally based on.

In Vampire Savior, another Capcom game, there's a huge Fetus on Judah's, the game final boss background.

In Guwange, a sump based on japanese folklore, the Fetus is also a final boss.

There's a big correlation between Fetus and the big bad evil in japanese stories.

I thought the ending was so so too. I actually thought Amaterasu would die so it was big relief she stayed alive. I totally agree that they should have developed the Waka character more, or developed him differently. He was a bit of a flamboyant snob who wasn't that friendly to our party. And all of sudden they try to have the emotional payoff seeing Amaterasu being happy that Waka survived. It just didn't work.