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Amaterasu with the Celestial Mirror weapon.
Long ago, in The Time Of Myths, the eight-headed dragon Orochi lorded over the village of Kamiki, demanding a sacrifice to himself every year on the night of the full moon. During the weeks before the day which the sacrifice would be chosen, a large white wolf - dubbed Shiranui by the villagers - would be spotted roaming the outskirts of the village. Many of the villagers suspected that Shiranui was Orochi's familiar. One warrior, Nagi, made it his mission to slay the wolf, but every time they would meet Shiranui would manage to get away.
On the night of the sacrifice, a maiden by the name of Nami - whom Nagi harbored strong feelings for - was selected to be offered to Orochi. Refusing to accept this, Nagi traveled to Orochi's cave to destroy the monster. However, Orochi proved to be far too strong for Nagi, and it appeared that he would kill the man.
But when Orochi was about to deal the final blow, a howl was heard. Shiranui appeared and fought Orochi in Nagi's place, matching the dragon blow by blow. In the end, the wolf gave her life so that Nagi could deal the final blow. In Shiranui's honor, a shrine was constructed in Kamiki village and the sword that slew Orochi, dubbed Tsukuyomi, was sealed away in the dragon's cave in order to prevent his revival. All the while, the villagers never realized that, in reality, the wolf was sun goddess Amaterasu in physical form.
100 years after these events an unnamed man, acting on his own curiosity, removes Tsukiyomi from Orochi's cave, allowing Orochi to revive himself and spread his influence over most of Nippon.
Sakuya, wood sprite and guardian of Kamiki village, realized that something needed to be done and revived Amaterasu's body so that she may defeat Orochi once more. However, both her death and Nippon's loss of faith in the gods has left Amaterasu greatly weakened. Adding the fact that Nagi's descendant, Susano, appears to be useless, it looks like it will be a severely uphill battle for Amaterasu...
... And that's just the first quarter of the game.
An action/adventure game in the vein of the Legend Of Zelda series, except using classic Japanese mythology and folklore as the basis of its setting. Players take on the role of Amaterasu, a Physical God who takes on the form of a white wolf to battle the forces of darkness that are sweeping across ancient Japan. She wields a magic paintbrush that can be used to alter reality and is accompanied by a tiny loudmouth named Issun. Amaterasu and Issun travel across Japan fighting evil, gaining new magical powers, meeting a cast of odd characters, and living out the "true stories" behind many of Japan's most famous myths.
Another game was recently announced by the name of Okamiden.
Provides Examples Of:
- A Boy And His X: Okamiden is "a boy and his infant wolf god puppy".
- Abnormal Ammo - The only way to defeat the twin clockwork owls is to dizzy them and then shoot Oki at them.
- Absolute Cleavage: The
mermaid Draconian dancers.
- And Sakuya, who gives you a boobfull of it. And then there is Rao, Which is how she got possessed- Kyuubi enter women through the cleavage to possess them.
- She wasn't really possessed though, Ninetails was more of a doppelganger, since you can find her dead body.
- Sakuya also has ass cleavage
- A God Is You: Type A.
- A God Am I: A rare heroic example. Nagi declares himself the guardian deity of Kamiki Village.
- Allergic To Evil: Ammy loses ink extremely rapidly and eventually dies if she enters a cursed zone.
- Ancient Astronauts: The Japanese folk tale of Kaguya, a child found inside a bamboo shoot by a bamboo cutter, turns out to be the tale of an alien princess whose spaceship resembles a giant stalk of bamboo —as well as her suit, which comes complete with a clear glass helmet. Also, the Celestials and the forces of darkness also arrived on Nippon from another physical world, using the Ark of Yamato as a spaceship.
- Art Initiates Life
- Artifact Of Doom: The fox rods.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: The New Game+ gives you the 'Karmic Transformers', which change Amaterasu into various dogs, and wolves - including Shiranui.
- Already Done For You: Waka restores the guardian sapling in N. Ryoshima Coast
- BFS: The Glaives.
- Barrier Maiden: Sakuya, whose trees ward off evil, has been turned into Sealed Good In A Can. Only by rejuvenating the trees can the area's cursed zone be lifted. Later, the priestess in the Gale Shrine kept the area safe, but when an Oni nearly possessed her it was quickly becoming a cursed zone.
- Battle Butler
- Badass Adorable: Issun; also Ammy, when she's not busy being a...
- Big Badass Wolf
- Bamboo Technology: Kaguya came to earth in a giant bamboo spaceship.
- Body Horror: Evil Rao.
- Boss Rush: The way it is laid out is definately a blatant Mega Man Shout Out. There's just no way it can't be.
- Boss Subtitles: Scrolls, actually, and for every enemy the first time they're fought in addition to bosses.
- Bragging Rights Reward: see Infinity Plus One Sword below.
- Bullet Time: The Mist brush technique.
- But Thou Must: Frequently lampshaded.
- By The Eyes Of The Blind: Only people with some spiritual sensitivity can see Amaterasu's Facial Markings. In addition, only Poncle's still hold the ability to understand gods, which is how Issun is able to speak with her despite her apparent muteness.
- The Catfish: Whopper, who ate the reflection of the moon, a "living sword" (i.e. swordfish), and the Legendary Marlin.
- Cats Are Mean: Okami bonds with Kabegami by batting Issun around like a toy mouse.
- Cherry Tapping: Killing enemies with the Yellow Fury or Brown Rage.
- Chest Monster: On the sunken ship.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Issun, so very much.
- City Guards
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: How the main character gets more powerful.
- Cool Gate: The Spirit Gate, Devil Gates, and Golden Gates.
- Cool Old Guy: Onigiri Sensei, whose head turns upside down when he goes Bad Ass.
- Cosmic Plaything: Susano becomes convinced he's one. He's not really far wrong.
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Quite a few of them, but the one that probably sticks out in most people's minds is when Susano goes to town on Orochi, giving a stirring 7-word battle-cry and punctuating each word by 'lopping one of Orochi's heads off. Sure, you're doing the work for those 7, but the final one is where he really gets to shine when he, all under his own power, not only takes off Orochi's last head, but cleaves it in two straight down to the bottom of the neck!
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Right after the fight with the Big Bad, he suddenly springs back to life, destroying all of the Celestial Brush Gods inside of Amaterasu, returning her to a normal wolf, then covering the room in pitch black darkness before assuming its true form. All seems hopeless until Ammy starts to hear the voices of several people she had met along her journey, acknowledging her as a goddess. Cue Issun, who accepted his role of celestial envoy and is spreading Ammy's feats to everyone. He then gives an absolute magnificent speech about the mutuality in the relationship between the Gods and the people that worship them. He tells everyone to pray for Ammy, and her powers come back full force. The clincher? The song in the background during this scene is "Reset ~ Thank You Version
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- Crowning Music Of Awesome: Shinshu plains, as well as a large percentage of the rest of the soundtrack.
- Cue The Sun: The ultimate example, as not only can Ammy invoke this at will, it's how she defeats the Big Bad.
- Demon Slaying: This is Amaterasu's mission, along with restoring Nippon to its former beauty.
- Depower: Only natural after nearly dying and being Sealed Good In A Can for a hundred years.
- Diagonal Cut
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu: Inverted; you may be a god, but quite a few mortals manage to give you quite a thrashing.
- Disc One Final Dungeon: Moon Cave and Oni Island.
- The Dragon: All the big climactic bosses, but most notably Orochi and Ninetails. Orochi in particular gets bonus points for literally being a dragon.
- Dude Wheres My Respect: And how. You do 99% of the work needed to slay Orochi, destroy Oni island, take down thousands of demons, restore beauty to Nippon, and master the powers of explosions, fire, wind and water. And most people will still call you poochie until the finale.
- Poochie, doggy, pooch, mutt, Fido, wolfy, Snowball, Snowy, Snowflake, fluffy — heck, even Issun calls you furball.
- Eastern Zodiac: The brush techniques are taught by the various members of said zodiac, with Ammy herself taking the role of the Dog. It also includes the Cat, and references the story about it being left out—see the entry on the Eastern Zodiac in Just So Story.
- Evil Is Sexy: Rao... sort of.
- Evil Old Folks: Mr. and Mrs. Cutter.
- Esoteric Motifs: Amaterasu's weapons are based on the Imperial Regalia of Japan.
- Exposition Fairy: Issun Boshi.
- Extra Eyes: A feature of some monsters.
- Eye Scream: in this game, locks are sentient. The keyhole in in their eye. You open them by shoving a key in the eye. However, there's the small matter of how they happen to be demonic monsters. So it's totally okay.
- Facial Markings: Amaterasu, though they're Invisible To Normals.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: Susanoo, though he ends up being a Real Ultimate Hero by flipping out and killing Orochi to save his Love Interest turned Damsel In Distress.
- Famous Ancestor: Nagi
- Fantastic Voyage: Twice, once when Amaterasu is shrunk and defeats the Blight inside the Emperor of Sei-An and when Amaterasu has to recover the Dragon Orb from inside the Water Dragon.
- Fastball Special: Amaterasu gets to shoot Oki at the Twin Owls as a projectile weapon. There is also a late-game accessory allows you to throw Issun at enemies for items.
- During the gameplay segments when the player controls a miniaturized Ammy, Issun teaches her how to command him to fly out and attack targets. The aforementioned accessory enables this skill outside of those areas.
- Fertile Feet: Amaterasu. Sakuya also seems to generate cherry blossoms wherever she manifests.
- Fetish Fuel
- Final Exam Boss: Yami. Be prepared to draw brush techniques that you probably haven't touched since the first dungeon.
- Fisticuffs Boss: The battle with Yami begins with Amaterasu's divine power being drained completely, reducing her to her basic wolf form with no special powers. The remainder of the battle consists of you slowly beating your own power out of the God of Darkness.
- Fractured Fairy Tale: Much of the game subverts and references famous Japanese myths, folklore, and fairy tales - implying that parts were exaggerated, downplayed, or lost in Adaptation Decay over the centuries. For instance - the "heroic God" Susano is actually a cowardly middle-aged man.
- Susano was never a Knight In Shining Armour in the original myths, he was a bloodthirsty Jerkass nobody liked
- Mythological Susano was still a powerful warrior. Okami's Susano, not so much (until he slays Orochi).
- The game's presentation of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, on the other hand, is almost entirely accurate...except for the fact that the "shining bamboo stalk" she was found in turned out to be an enormous spaceship shaped like a bamboo shoot.
- Friend To All Living Things: Amaterasu, turned way up.
- Well, she is a benevolent Goddess of the sun and addressed several times as "Mother to us all", so that should be expected.
- Follow The Leader: Come on, you don't see it? Silent protagonist, occasionally annoying sidekick, fish catching game, Barrier Maiden, fragments of extra life, Time Travel. If it wasn't for the importance of sake and Rao, people would mistake this for a Nintendo game. Ammy even has the same repertoire of equipment as Link.
- And copied right back with Twilight Princess.
- For The Cel Of It
- Gag Boobs: Not even God herself is immune to Rao's epic cleavage.
- Gainaxing: Rao and Sakuya. Gainax could take lessons.
- Gameplay And Story Segregation: How is it that Ammy can swim for a whole minute while carrying Rao in a cutscene, but drowns in 40 seconds without the water tablet?
- Generation Xerox: You see that this is the case, when you travel back to Kamiki Village 100 years ago.
- Genre Shift: So, you're running about feudal Japan during the Age of Myths, hunting down the Man Behind The Man, and then... you end up fighting in a spaceship.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: In addition to earning Praise with which she buys upgrades, Ammy becomes a full-fledged god again at the end of the game when Issun convinces the entire world to pray for her.
- God Save Us From The Queen: Queen Himiko, subverted, as she's actually praying for the safety of all Nippon and sacrifices herself to reveal the location of Oni Island.
- Gone Swimming Clothes Stolen: You have to steal Nami's robe while she bathes in order to disguise Nagi as the sacrificial maiden.
- Gotta Catch Them All: The Celestial Brush techniques, some of which need to be found before moving on to certain parts of the story)
- ... not mentioning treasures, animals to feed, fishes to catch, martial arts to learn, bestiary to complete, traveler scrolls to find— even if these are all optional, they're still things to catch for the poor completionist attempting them.
- Gratuitous French: Waka in the US version, ma cherie.
- Gravity Is A Harsh Mistress: Gravitational Cognizance occurs in one cutscene.
- Green Aesop: Being at one with nature means harmony for all.
- Grim Up North: Kamui.
- Guide Dang It: Several of the Stray Beads can only be found after completing the second-to-last area, but before entering The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, which is beyond the point of no return. Also, good luck finding all 108 without a guide.
- Hail Fire Peaks: Gangplank Galleon + Big Boos Haunt + (Nightmare Fuel X 10) = the cursed ship
- Henohenomoheji: Distant NPCs have the henohenomoheji face in their thought bubbles.
- Heroic Mime:Amaterasu, who, being a wolf, doesn't talk but makes various wolfish noises and finds other ways to express her emotions.
- Have You Seen My God
- Heart Container: The Solar Fragments.
- The Heartless: Subverted with Tobi, who just wants a good race. Actually, most of the oni (The imps, at least) are just a bunch of goofy guys. They may be serving up poor Kushi, but to them, it's just how they live.
- Heroic Lineage: Susano.
- Hidden Elf Village: Subverted. The Poncles, who otherwise fit most of the trope, are probably the only ones who seem to care about, or even notice, the decline of the gods.
- Holy Halo: The Flame Tablet, and later Amaterasu's fully powered form seems a lot like a sun's corona.
- Human Aliens: The Bamboo Princess, who even rides a bamboo rocket back home.
- Hundred Percent Completion: Oh dear. (See entry for Gotta Catch Them All.)
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Ammy can carry all of her weapons, consumable items, treasures, fish, scrolls, etc....in her inventory, despite not having pockets. (Then again, she is a Goddess.)
- I Have No Mouth: Every human and Poncle character and some of the monsters. It kinda explains why the voice acting sounds like it does.
- Improbable Weapon User: Amaterasu can basically slay demons with mirrors and holy beads. Not by reflecting holy light or anything, just by whacking them senseless.
- Incendiary Exponent: The most powerful mirror, perpetually on fire and very useful to draw fire from if you don't have the Inferno attack.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Amaterasu must use the Magic Mallet from the original tale of Issun Boshi to shrink down and infiltrate the Imperial Palace. While shrunk, she is the same size as Issun himself!
- Infinity Plus One Sword: Collecting all the beads gives you an item that increases your attack power by a factor of ten, and gives you infinite ink and health- but since one bead is obtained by beating the Final Boss, you can't use it until the New Game Plus.
- Instrument Of Murder: Waka's flute turns into an energy sword.
- Intellectual Animal: Amaterasu. That being said, she's one of the few who can't talk. At least to Muggles that is.
- Invisible To Normals: Amaterasu's red markings and spectacular flames are completely unseen by humans—she's just a strangely intelligent white wolf/dog.
- Invulnerable Civilians: No one else will be attacked by a demon scroll. No one. (But some of them will get possessed/harassed by demons.)
- Its Up To You: Nothing gets done without Ammy, not even the laundry.
- King Of All Cosmos: Amaterasu.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Swipe food, money, and treasure from people's pots, fields, and dresser drawers, but beware of Mushi's mother, who will defend her turnip field from hole-diggers like Ammy. By using Inferno, you can steal stuff faster and become a Pyromaniac Hero.
- Last Lousy Point: Stray Beads.
- To unlock every Karmic Tranformer, you have to get 4500+ praise. That's like every single animal and clover in the game. Good luck. However, you can do it in more than one playthrough on the Wii version (and possibly the PS 2 version as well). It gets very easy to keep track of once you don't have to spend it on everything.
- In the PS 2 version it has to be in one playthrough (even though unspent Praise carries over, the game isn't counting that in the Karmic Transformer tally). By the way, the most Praise that players have been able to earn in a single playthrough is somewhere around 7200. Once you collect 6020 (the amount needed to maximize your stats), you get the "Yen For Praise" bonus.
- Leaning On The Fourth Wall: Done exactly once during the entire game. One of the bonus bosses is "The Kusa Five," although you actually fight all of The Eight Canine Warriors. When Issun mentions this Fuse says its because even when they are seperated they fight as one. THEN Issun says something to the affect of "then how come they didn't help us fight that Crimson Helm guy?" Fuse can't come up with anything to explain this save "Um..." before quickly moving to another topic.
- In case you don't get the joke the developer wanted to give the player an awesome boss battle, despite the fact that this didn't make much sense in the context of the story. So instead they explicitly pointed out how little this made sense.
- Leitmotif
- Le Parkour: Ammy can gain a Wall Jump, a Double Jump, and a clinging to walls ability.
- Little Black Dress: Ammy is paired up far more than a non-talking wolf should be... Waka is at least a legit exception since he was with Ammy when she walked the earth as a god.
- Living Statue: Ammy.
- Loads And Loads Of Loading: But at least the mini-games do help pass the time a bit faster. This was fixed in the Wii version, though they took out the minigames.
- Lost Forever: Anything in the Moon Cave or Oni Island. That dog and the two clovers in ancient Kamiki Village
- For those who want to fill their bestiary, one or two enemy types only show up in one area of the game (they're in the Doom Mirror family from when Ammy is shrunken in the Emperor's palace), and are absent from the arena-type locales where other seemingly limited-time-only enemies can appear.
- Macguffin Delivery Service: After going into the bowels of the Water Dragon, and retrieving the precious Fox Rods, Rao appears and...convinces Ammy to give them to her.
- Mechanical Lifeform: The Final Boss.
- The Messiah: Amaterasu. Makes sense, seeing as she's God and all.
- Mind Screw: Amaterasu is saved, twice, mind you, by her past incarnation Shiranui who comes directly from the past to help her future self since she lost most of her power after being sealed in a statue. There are two versions of the same god in one place.
- Wait...(If Shiranui is the past version of Ammy, then Ammy would already remember Shiranui coming to the future, and she'd already know she'd go into the past eventually, because she'd already seen/done those things...)
- This assumes Amaterasu remembers her past life. We never get into Ammy's head, so we don't know if omniscience is one of her powers. There's speculation that she knows what is fated to occur, and evidence to back it up, but that's about it.
- The Mole: Rao, who turns out to be the Dark Lord Kyubi/Ninetails.
- Moon Rabbit: To no Asian's surprise, the Rabbit zodiac gives moon related powers.
- Ms Fanservice: Rao, natch, but Sakuya also —her personal motif is peaches, and her dress is both very low-cut and has an opening at the derriere so as to show how much she resembles a peach, herself.
- And that's just her weakened form. The form you'll see the most has her wearing a bra that shouldn't even be able to hold up those melons, and what looks like a belt with two tapestries hanging from it. Combine that with the fact that Sakuya's the only girl who retains importance throughout all 3 arcs (you'll want to get the free prizes from her tree), and Sakuya's the real Ms. Fanservice
- And the Draconian dancers, who wear skirts and seashells on their boobs.
- Mundane Utility: Phenomenal cosmic powers can be used for anything from saving the world to drying laundry.
- My Greatest Failure: Waka accidentally brought oni to Earth when he was trying to help the Celestials flee from them.
- My Name Is Not Durwood: People forgetting or messing up Amaterasu's name is something of a Running Gag. While Issun's kind enough to think up a relatively cute, inoffensive nickname (Ammy), most people just end up calling her Furball or Snowy.
- Narrator All Along: Issun in the role of Celestial Envoy.
- New Game Plus
- Nice Hat: Waka. Pity it's destroyed.
- Nice Job Breaking It Hero: Ammy retrieving the Dragon Orb from the Water Dragon, ends up killing him, and lets Ninetails get their paws on the Fox Rods, who then goes off and kill Queen Himiko, so that Oni Island can't be traced. Not to mention that with the Water Dragon dead, there's no way of accessing said Island. However, there are hints in the dialog with Waka that she knew these events had to occur ahead of time.
- Nightmare Fuel: Oh god, the Water Dragon, the damn haunted ship, too.
- Mr. and Mrs. Cutter.
- That giant green seaweed hand from the deep. At 10 PM. *sigh* And things were going so well.
- Before the Water Dragon, there's Blight. At least with the Dragon level you're not inside a human. (And then the Fridge Logic hits you like a brick...)
- Nightmare Retardant: Arguably Yami, God of Darkness AKA Fish fetus inside a mecha-orb.
- Now Where Was I Going Again: Averted, the Journal keeps track of major things you should remember.
- No Body Left Behind: Enemies turn into flowers; justified as they're all monsters representing either literal or spiritual pollution, and Ammy purifies them.
- Obake: What with using the trappings of Japanese folklore.
- Orochi
- Owl Be Damned: Clockwork Twin owls with Hammerspace Nice Hats that control time and wear High Class Glass. Seriously, these guys approach Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot territory.
- iirc, one of them is also a slot machine!
- Offscreen Teleportation: All of the recurring travelers. How does a cute girl with a weird hat and her little sister reach Sei-an City before a physical god?
- Only Idiots May Pass: You have to accept Rao's deception in order to get the shrinking mallet. You have to kill the Water Dragon to get the Dragon Orb. This may or may not be justified, depending on if you interpret things as Ammy knowing the future and choosing the hard but correct path, or Ammy being foolish.
- Paper Thin Disguise: Literally. You even get to draw your own symbol on it. Ammy seems rather nonplussed that they actually fell for this, mere moments after they shooed her away.
- The Paragon: Ammy.
- Physical God: Shiranui, Ammy's past self. Ammy is...actually slightly less of one, at least not until the New Game Plus, and only in the sense that a bonus item grants you unlimited resources. You never get the same powers as Shiranui as seen in the actual gameplay).
- Well, with the Bead String and all the upgraded brush techniques, you can feel pretty close.
- Platforming Pocket Pal: Issun.
- Player Punch: (Go on, visit the well near the Ryoshima Coast's Ankoku Shrine after finding out the truth about Rao's fate.
- and Queen Himiko
- seeing your past self on its last legs, fighting along side you to protect a future and using the last of its energy, is a fairly big Tear Jerker as well.
- Plot Induced Stupidity: Amaterasu can sense evil but fails to recognize Rao as the evil Ninetails fox and hands over the Fox Rods without question. Although this may actually not have been stupid based on something Waka says later. He notes that Himiko was resigned to her fate, as Amaterasu already knew, implying that the only way for her to successfully spy out the location of Oni Island was for her to die in that manner, which in turn implies that Ammy actually knew what Rao was when she handed over the Fox Rods. Then again, given Ammy's reaction to huge... tracts of land previously, she may have simply been distracted.
- It's worth noting though that the game is never completely clear if the Rao you knew was always ninetails or or if she was only posessd near the end. It's acctualy caused a fair amount of debates beetween fans
- Rao's body in the secret tunnel is nothing but a skeleton, so presumably the switch happened long before you got there. And iirc, the Rao we see only had red beads, the real one had blue.
- Portal Pool: Mermaid Springs
- Porting Disaster: Somewhat understandable considering that the port was made well after Clover was dissolved. So acquiring the game engine was difficult and some parts had to be made from scratch. However, the most "blatant" disaster comes on the port's packaging, which contains a faded IGN logo. Capcom did release alternate titles for a limited time to compensate. The Wii port also removed Clover, the original developer, from the ending credits, because the the new developer didn't have the rights to the Clover logo which appears in it, nor even the original video file.
- Powerless Run: Anytime you can't use ink.
- Pre Order Bonus
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Oki.
- Punny Name: Okami can mean either "wolf" or "Great God". Not to mention that the title can be used as part of an alternate spelling for Amaterasu in Japanese, as well as referencing the kind of paper used in woodcut artwork, which is basically what the game is built on.
- Puzzle Boss: All of them. Well, maybe not Ninetails, but every other boss.
- Hint: Your most recently obtained brush technique is likely to be important. (For instance, if you're not a pro at Veil of Mist by the time you beat Blight, you had someone else do it for you.)
- Reality Warper: Ammy. Not many people can control day and night, cause flowers to bloom, trees to sprout, or the skies rain or burn on command.
- Red Oni Blue Oni: Literally as a mini-boss.
- Recurring Traveller: Several of them who show up throughout the game.
- Refusal Of The Call: Both Susano and Issun. Susano is revealed to have removed Tsukiyomi from the cave in order to prove that what happened 100 years ago wasn't really true so that he didn't have to carry Nagi's title. Issun ran away from his village so that he wouldn't have to become a celestial envoy.
- Restart At Level One: Ammy.
- Scenery Porn: Lots and lots of it.
- Science Is Bad: Yami, the God of Darkness is stated to be the creator of technology. Subverted with Waka's Tao Warriors, who apparently use Magitek computers.
- Further subverted by the old inventor in the Seian City clocktower: help him get the clock running and Amaterasu gets a new holy lightning power.
- Seashell Bra: The pretty Draconian dancers have seashell stick-ons.
- Sealed Evil In A Can: Orochi. Also Yami.
- Sealed Good In A Can: Ammy starts as one before being released by Sakuya... who herself becomes one shortly afterwards.
- She's a Man in Japan: Amaterasu is clearly defined as being female in-game. She's referred to as a goddess, a mother, and, when she encounters a blind man able to perceive the true form of those he "sees," a beautiful maiden. The American box and documentation carefully skirt the issue of Ammy's gender, remaining neutral or calling her a god.
- Shock And Awe: The most powerful glaive, from which you can draw lightning if you don't want to do That One Sidequest.
- Shout Out: To other Clover games, Viewtiful Joe and God Hand. Ammy's ink-less kicks are just like John Talbain's. Also, when Ammy is shrunk by the Magic Mallet, the Imperial Palace guards are identical to Colossi from Shadow Of The Colossus, down to the ominous shining eyes.
- And the way Mrs. Orange makes her Cherry Cakes looks like the Shun Goku Satsu.
- Am i the only one who thinks the Blockheads look a lot like Twhomps?
- Sidetracked By The Gold Saucer: And how!
- Sincerest Form Of Flattery: The director admitted that the Zelda series is the inspiration for this game.
- Some Dexterity Required: Understatement. Many of the more advanced technique upgrades like Fireburst and Icestorm are very hard to pull off. Drawing the girl's designs in Seian City is also quite frustrating. (It helps to know a thing or two about Calligraphy.) The game is also kinda picky about what counts as a 5 pointed star... Like real picky
- Speaking Simlish: Even with the Heroic Mime Amaterasu, everyone speaks nonsense. But, it's cute nonsense.
- Sphere Of Power: Dragon Orb, Satomi Power Orbs, that Crystal that the Queen had, those stray beads. Yami
- Spinoff Babies: Okamiden
- Spirit Bomb: The collective power of prayer all over Nippon restores Ammy to full godhood.
- Stable Time Loop: Shiranui travels forward in time to save Amaterasu and friends from a spell that held her motionless at the cost of a mortal wound. This leads to her going back in time, dying, and being sealed. When awakened as Amateresu, her powers are much weaker than before, which is why she needed to be saved in the first place.)
- Story To Gameplay Ratio: This game has more cutscenes than Metal Gear Solid 4, but fortunately, they're all skippable in the New Game Plus.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Rao. Even the mother goddess, the origin of all, from whom all that is good arised, is stunned by her...beauty.
- This may be WHY the American manual insists she's not 100% female—they shied away from the idea of a goddess being smitten by an impressive rack.
- Take Your Time: The game does keep track of how many in-game "days" it takes to beat the game, though.
- Tastes Like Friendship: You earn praise from animals by feeding them the food they like.
- Tear Jerker: Kaguya going home.
- Ted Baxter: Issun, who is convinced he is far more talented and attractive than he actually is.
- That One Sidequest: Blockhead Grande & Black Devil Gates.
- Catching the Marlin, winning the race to get the Gimmick Gear, or that other race/obstacle source to earn a Stray Bead will also cause you to throw your controller.
- The Thing That Goes Doink: Found mostly in Sasa Sanctuary and used in puzzles involving the waterspout technique.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: At least, Waka, Blight, Evil Rao and Nagi think so.
- Time Keeps On Slipping: Even moreso than usual, as you can turn the day to night and vice versa, though you can also extend the length of any day or night by continually drawing the corresponding brush techniques.
- Took A Level In Badass: Susano.
- Too Dumb To Live: "Giant flowers like this always have treasures!" Said while ignoring the fact that said giant flower had eight giant eyeballs. Yeah, way to go, Issun...
- Training Dummy: In the dojo.
- Tron Lines: The ark.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: You'd think people would worry more at the sight of a giant white wolf. (Then again, a good number of them think that Ammy's some kind of dog.
- Urine Trouble: "Yellow Fury."
- Use Your Head: There's a reason she's called hard-headed Ammy...
- Vendor Trash: Well over half of the treasures that you find.
- The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: But you run into so many Disc One Final Dungeons that you despair of ever finishing the game.
- But then again, what Final Dungeon has you preparing a meal for someone or racing against a slip of paper?
- On the other hand, you have the real Very Definitely Final Dungeon the Ark of Yamato, a spaceship. In Ancient Japan. If the Boss Rush doesn't clue you in, that should.
- Videogame Caring Potential: Feeding kittens? Adorable.
- Videogame Cruelty Potential: Setting them on fire? Priceless.
- This game excels in both tropes. You can watch Amaterasu feed bunnies and kittens, help someone find their rabbit, or grow clovers to make things pretty. Also, you can tackle, blow up, douse, cut, freeze, turn into snowmen, blow away, shock and bite anyone from the cute dancers to main heroes. This troper considered it an achievement when he cycloned a couple of stuffed-up nobles.
- Some of the animals will actually attack Amaterasu if you bite them. Guess The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything.
- Violation Of Common Sense: As Issun will regularly tell you: when in doubt, jump off an apparently endless cliff.
- Warp Whistle: Multiple. The Mermaid's Pools allow you to warp between them with coins or a certain brush technique, and you can get another brush technique allowing you to warp between certain overworld save points.
- Walk On Water: The Water Tablet from the Emperor.
- Wakeup Call Boss: Waka.
- Weak But Skilled: Waka.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Orochi is vulnerable to wine, Yami is vulnerable to Bloom, in Stage 1, and Sunlight, in the last stage. Other minor minions have similarly weaksauce weaknesses.
- In Orochi's defense, it's really, really, good sake. Also, his weakness is less the sake itself, and more the drunkenness that comes with it. It is also a mythology reference.
- Xanatos Gambit: Queen Himiko lets Rao/Ninetails regain the Fox Rods, and thus ultimate power, in order to use that power to find Oni Island.
- You Cant Fight Fate: Issun ends up becoming a celestial envoy, despite his resistance.
- You Cant Go Home Again: Issun doesn't want to, at least. The gods killed by Yami also apparently have no chance of ever returning to the celestial realm.
- Your Costume Needs Work: Mr. Orange's first response to Amaterasu was along the lines of, "Hey, you look kinda like Shiranui — only not as smart." Ammy was not amused.
- You Fail Biology Forever: The oni Blight creates a lot of Fridge Logic, and not just the kind that makes it even scarier.
- You Shouldn't Know This Already: Justified with the Celestial Brush techniques. You need to find the correct god and release/rejuvenate it before you can use its technique.
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