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Ōkami

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Game Information

Original Release Date: April 20, 2006

Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii

Involved Companies: Clover Studio, Capcom, HexaDrive, Ready at Dawn

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Summary: Set sometime in classical Japanese history, Ōkami combines several Japanese mythology and folklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the Shinto sun goddess named Amaterasu, who took the form of a white wolf with celestial markings covering its fur. It features a distinct sumi-e-inspired cel-shaded visual style and the Celestial Brush, a gesture-system used to perform miracles.

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).