Ōkamiden
Ōkamiden, known in Japan as Ōkamiden: Chiisaki Taiyō, is an action-adventure video game published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is a spiritual successor, rather than a sequel, to Ōkami, a game released originally for the PlayStation 2 and later ported first to the Wii, then to other platforms.
| Ōkamiden | |
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European box art featuring Kuni riding on Chibiterasu, son of the goddess Amaterasu | |
| Developer(s) | Mobile & Game Studio, Inc. |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Director(s) | Kuniomi Matsushita |
| Producer(s) | Motohide Eshiro |
| Artist(s) | Kenji Endo |
| Writer(s) | Yukinori Kitajima |
| Composer(s) | Rei Kondoh |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Ōkamiden was designed by Kuniomi Matsushita, the director of the Wii port of Ōkami, and Motohide Eshiro, producer of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny. It was released in Japan on September 30, 2010, in North America on March 15, 2011, and in Europe on March 18. It stars Chibiterasu, a small celestial wolf born from Amaterasu, the protagonist of Ōkami, and features much of the same gameplay as its predecessor, including the Celestial Brush which allows players to freeze the gameplay and draw shapes or patterns using the touch screen.
Development began when Matsushita expressed an interest in creating a new Ōkami game and showed Eshiro a technical demo of such a game in December 2008. Because the demo was so well-done, development began on a sequel, and in September 2010, four years after Ōkami debuted, the game was released to positive reviews from critics and moderate commercial success.