First things first:
YES, it has keyboard and mouse support.
YES, you can use the Celestial Brush with the mouse.
YES, you can skip any cutscenes and text without needing to complete the game first.
YES, you can use a drawing tablet to play.
NO, there is not the original song "Reset" in the entire game, be it from the end credits or the presents from Issun.

Now:
After the first few minutes (16 to be exact), I felt all the childhood memories resurface in my mind, the excited fan inside me screaming to continue in this beautiful game. Used to play the game on the Wii with 480p resolution on a small screen, now with 1440p on a computer monitor large enough to be fully immersed in this work of art, I can't begin to imagine what 4K will look like. Not only all the textures are sharp, but the added post processing effects from the original on PS2 makes the experience simply better.

This newest edition of Okami allows both controller and keyboard/mouse support, the game open to the Playstation or the "Wii" playstyles. I have not tested the controller part yet, however for the keyboard/mouse part, all the controls can be rebound to your heart's content. The camera is controlled by the mouse, in case you are wondering.

Using the Celestial Brush feels natural, comfortably giving you full control on your line work without horrid wavering drawing (Wii version with its Wiimote not being stable in your hand, for example). I miss the ability to change the thickness of the brush freely like on PS2, although at least there's the ability to paint a constant, thicker line instead.

You can also change the refresh rate of the game, as well as the resolution and if you want it fullscreen, windowed, or borderless windowed. Either you can't change to a 1920x1200 resolution if you don't have a 16:10 screen (even if your 16:9 screen is bigger than that), or it's locked at 4:3 and 16:9 only. You might get some black lines if you are using a 16:10 screen.

With all the positive above, I do have to point out the controls overall can take a little while to get used to. As for framerate, the Fan Menu can go at 60 fps, while the game itself seems to be capped at 30 fps. In any case, the framerate of the game was not wavering at all on either situations, which is a mega plus compared to, say, an emulator.

Overall, the game compared to its predecessing versions is simply stunning, completely worth the $20.00. This 30 hours game is a masterpiece, a classic, and simply a unique and fun experience. Now's your chance to play this amazing, way underrated work of art!

P.S.: For the artists out there, try out your drawing tablets with the game and see if it works. If you can move your mouse cursor with a pen, so should the camera and Celestial Brush. This can be a unique way to play~

EDIT: I forgot to point out by default, the right mouse button makes the alternate, thicker line. Now if you have some sort of plugin for a PS3 controller for detecting analog inputs, I wonder if the game will still recognize that data and allow you to draw variable lines, like on PS2...

UPDATE: I can confirm that Okami is playable with a drawing tablet like Intuos Comic and the likes. It actually makes for a very interesting playstyle! However, the camera is a little bit hard to control unless you have a very high sensitivity, since you can't just reposition your pen like you would with your mouse in this case. For the first time, I finally was able to really draw in Okami...

TIPS:
If you need to walk for the "Pick Nami's clothes" minigame, hold B on the keyboard. It will make Amaterasu walk instead of run when you move around.

Pressing the Fan Menu button twice allows you to skip nearly all dialog in the game, without the need to complete the game first.

Applying Gold Dust on weapons apply different visual effects on them, no matter how subtle they are. It's easier to notice it now in this edition of the game!

Aaah, Ôkami. This is definitely one of "those" games, you know, the kind that stays with you no matter how old you were when you first played it. It takes you on a journey and makes sure you're having a blast all the way through, and despite some small annoyances, what you’re left with after the credits roll is nothing but good memories.

Ôkami is a third person action-adventure game that is very similar in terms of structure to a Zelda game. In fact, I’d go as far as to say it is the best Zelda-like ever made. You take control of the japanese sun goddess Amaterasu as she is reborn in the body of a white wolf, and are tasked with bringing back light to the cursed land of Nippon.

Armed with your divine weapons in the form of either a Reflector, a Rosary or a Glaive, and your Celestial Paintbrush, you explore a vast world that, while it can’t hold a candle to gigantic open-world games of 2010 and beyond, still manages to be packed with a high density of very interesting content. As a new player, you’re looking at 40 hours just to complete the story, and up to 80 hours if you’re looking to get 100% completion, which, for 20 bucks, is pretty much a steal.

The story is long and epic, but doesn’t take itself so seriously that you can’t have good lighthearted moments with tons of charming characters. Encounters with friends and foes alike are memorable for all the right reasons, and that includes the exceptional soundtrack that, to this day, remains one of my favorites in gaming. Ôkami is inspired by japanese history and culture and it shows in every aspect of the game, including the instruments chosen for the soundtrack, the sumi-e artstyle that shall remain timeless and shines in high definition, and the story which borrows heavily from myths and legends from the land of the rising sun.

Your main tool throughout the adventure is the Celestial Paintbrush, an ability that allows you to stop time at any moment, rotate the camera freely, and turn your screen into a canvas. Using either a mouse and keyboard or a controller, you can then draw symbols on the screen and watch them affect the world around you. From repairing a broken bridge by filling in the missing parts to slicing monsters in half with a well placed slash on your canvas, the possibilities are varied and your powers are put to good use in many situations.

This HD port for the PC runs at 30fps, which is unfortunate, but even as a devout follower of the Church of High Framerates, the subpar framerate never once bothered me. Which is weird because in a game like the first Dark Souls, I actively get distracted by the low framerate, but Ôkami somehow manages to be a smooth experience...go figure. No crashes to report on two different computers in over 40 hours of playtime. Graphic settings are kind of limited but allow for enough tweaking to get a good experience.

While everything hasn’t aged perfectly and some text boxes could benefit from allowing you to speed them up, the original experience is still intact and well worth playing. I did my best to put down my nostalgia goggles from 10 years ago, and I had just as much of a good time as I did the first time I played through this gem of a game.

Literally my most favorite game ever, played it for the first time when I was 11. Works just as well on my laptop as it did on the console. I loved this game so much that I ended up with an intense interest in Japanese folklore and religion, which made me get a major in Asian Studies. Now I'm heading for a PHD in Japanese Religious Studies. Please play it!

Edit: First off, thank you everyone for the awards! I'm glad you all found my review amusing/helpful. :) Otherwise, I feel like I should more fully explain my love for this game because my simple review doesn't do enough for it.

I first played this game when I was 11, after "Okami" had been released for the Wii. Before this, I had never really been exposed to Japanese folklore, religion, and culture, and, as someone who grew up in a rural part of the United States where the only culture is corn and Jesus, discovering that other cultures have such rich folklore was a real eye opener for me. For years after, I played "Okami" religiously (I think I've completed it upwards of 30 times at this point. I know, my childhood was clearly just this game, but there wasn't much else for me to do lol). It led me to become very interested in Japanese religion and folklore, so, by the time I entered college, I started taking Japanese language and culture courses. Originally, I wasn't planning on going into East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies (I didn't know that was even a possibility at the time!), so for years I planned on a different career. However, when I was in my junior year, I realized that the only classes I really enjoyed taking were those about Japanese culture, so I decided to get a second major in Asian Studies. I stuck with it, and I am now working on my MA in East Asian Studies, with the goal of eventually going into Japanese Religious Studies. So, that is how "Okami" led me to my current path.

While I loved and appreciated the work that went into "Okami" before I started taking classes, it wasn't until I started learning more about Japanese religion, history, and folklore in college that I really started to understand just how much research must have gone into this game. Throughout my many years of classes, time and time again I've noticed the exact histories and works that "Okami" drew inspiration from, including the Nihon Shoki, Record of Three Kingdoms, etc. Every time I take a class I notice something that was presented in "Okami." Similarly, every time I replay "Okami," I always notice things that were mentioned in my classes or textbooks that. Without having taken those classes or read those texts, I would not have understood the significance of these references within the game. This is not to say that "Okami" is nothing but references to other works, as, while references are fairly common, the way "Okami" uses these references are all unique and create a beautifully imaginative yet convincing world. While inspiration from historical documents and folklore certainly influenced the designs and personality of characters such as Himiko and Waka, they are still so distinct from the source materials that one can safely call them "original characters." The way the creators used their various inspirations is simply brilliant, and regardless of how many times I've played this game, it continues to fascinate me and influence my own stories and art.

I still feel unsettled excitement when I climb to the top of the dogu in the Tsuta Ruins, only to drop down into a silent pit surrounded by dogu and haniwa figurines, from which exiting triggers the creepiest biwa track I have ever heard. I still feel dread when I reach the top of Oni Island, and I still cry at the end of the game. The art style heavily influenced my own, and, even though I had tried to create my own distinct style, my original influence is still fairly clear. It is simply the most beautiful and detailed video game I have ever encountered, and I will always enjoy the art, music, and story presented within it. Maybe I'm a little too obsessed with this game, but it honestly changed my life, and I certainly would not be where I am now if I had not played it over a decade ago.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you give this game a shot!

I own this game for PS2. I own this game for Wii. I own this game for PS3. And now I own it for PC.

Having beaten this game at least 2 or three times on multiple consoles, I can confidently say this is an excellent port.

In Okami, you play as an incarnation of the sun goddess Amaterasu (Ammy for short) trying to save the world from darkness and evil. Having woken up from a hundred year-long absence, Ammy is now much weaker compared to 100 years ago, and must find the other gods in order to regain her strength and abilities to face the trials ahead.

These abilities primarily consist of Celestial Brush techniques, which allow you to paint designs that can slash like a sword, create fire from nothing, or change night into day (she is the sun goddess, after all). New abilities, much like new items in Legend of Zelda games, will also allow you to make your way further in the world, unlocking new areas and a plethora of hidden secrets.

Gameplay is fun, as long as you're not looking for highly complex combo systems. For those that don't much care for combat, a lot of it is optional, and combat has no effect on improving Ammy's stats.

Okami controls very nicely, with keyboard + mouse controls as good as a playstation controller (better for those more comfortable with a keyboard than a controller). Mouse controls for the paintbrush are probably the best of all systems, as it takes a bit of practice to master using an analog stick or the Wiimote. The mouse, simply put, feels more natural. I played using a keyboard so I cannot attest to how well PC Okami plays using a controller.

While I don't consider graphics to be a deal-breaker, it's still nice to have something pretty to look at. And Okami is gorgeous . I don't just mean for an eleven year-old game; I mean just in general. Vibrant colors and an art style reminiscent of a Japanese painting mean that Okami ages much more gracefully than most games (though the first area can be a little hard on the eyes and, visually, is one of my least favorite areas). If you know what to look for, you can easily see places where the game shows its age, but overall, the game still looks beautiful.

While I feel I've spent too many words on this review already, I have to mention the soundtrack. Always appropriate to the mood of the scene (or very deliberately not), many tracks are just plain beautiful, with the exceptions generally being deliberately silly or fun. The one great shame is that the original credits song is (I hear, being near the end but not yet having beaten PC Okami as of the writing of this review) is absent, as it has been from every port of the game.
EDIT: Having completed Okami, I can confirm that, sadly, the original credits song has been replaced by something else.

Some minor issues I had that were no more than mild annoyances:

1. Occasionally, when moving, the canvas (mapped to ctrl) would come up while I was only pressing the movement keys. I haven't yet figured out why.
   
2. In the fishing minigame, the keys used to yank fish out of the water are sometimes the same ones used to reel them in, which, when it happened, would result in me yanking the fish out when I wasn't ready to. For those not familiar with the minigame, you need to bring up the canvas using ctrl within a second or two after yanking it out of the water or else the fish will fall back in and you have to repeat the reeling process. Sometimes (not always) I would be caught by surprise enough that I missed that window.
   
3. My computer is not that great, so I could, for the mosts part, only run Okami on "medium" graphics or else face significant lag and cutscenes with unsynched audio and visuals, and for one boss battle had to drop the graphics to "low." Even playing on "low," though, the game is still gorgeous.

And for veterans of the PS2 version: the loading screen minigames are back!

Overall, Okami is excellent. If you like Legend of Zelda, games that look like you're playing a painting, games that have a painting mechanic, or some old fashioned, albeit simple, demon-bashing, I think you'll like this game.

It has a dedicated bark button.

Okami is the best non-Zelda Zelda game, but also best dog simulator.

10/10 Dog features include:

You can bark at people for no reason! You can dig up bones! You can catch a birb in your mouth and then prance! You can bite people in the crotch and they are like "hey! what! why i oughta!" If you see a demon, you can pee on it!


Please purchase The Legend of Dog Zelda for a good time.

Let me put it on simple terms, Of all the games i used to own this is the only one i saw fit to buy twice

Okami is an amazing game and deserves to be played. There is plenty of content here to have you playing for at least 45 hours or more. Fans of the series and newcomers should check this game out, especially if you love Zelda.

Also to note, its great for those with low spec rigs. Right now I'm not even playing on my gaming PC, I'm playing this on a surface pro 4. Sure I have to lower the resolution down sub 1080p, but the game is able to run really well on an integrated graphics card. I know that might sound like a strange positive to give, but I thought its worth noting that those with less than stellar rigs can still enjoy this game. EDIT - I can actually Run this at 1080p with mostly 30fps with the Surface Pro 4. So I can run this for certain at 900p. So, to reiterate, this game will work well with low end hardware.

However, there are some issues with the port.
First of all, it doesn't support 16:10. I think its safe to assume ultrawide monitors will not be supported either.

30FPS lock, makes mouse movement seem a bit odd.

Limited Graphics settings. Only being able to choose between Low, Medium, and High

Now, even though the mouse movement seems odd due to the locked frame rate, the core mechanic of the celestial brush does improve due to the mouse.

All in all, I do recommend this game. But if any of the port issues really affect you too much, I can understand as to why you may want to pass.

Buy with caution.

EDIT - Just to add, yes this game is 30FPS lock. However, due to my experience, I can't say the port is terrible since it can run really well on less than ideal hardware. Not the best port in terms of features, but hey I'm just glad to see the game come out on PC.

A 30 FPS capped game with good reviews on Steam, that give you an idea of how good this game is.

you play as a dog