Okami marred by excess, concludes review
The New Gamer has posted a provocative take on Clover's Okami that's worth considering. The review suggests that the game is built on a seesaw of excess, teetering between gorgeously overworked themes and useless redundancies, concluding:
"[When] the excess doesn't add to the characters, when it doesn't showcase the story or the world design, when it just causes me to mindlessly increase quantities of items I'll never need, then I can't help but remark that not all of Okami is as rich as it could have been."
Okami easily stretches 30 hours of gameplay, but a huge chunk of New Gamer's time was spent hoarding unnecessary items. Would Clover's game have benefited from trimming the fat?
[Via Game Set Watch]
