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Log
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After the scene with the man and the sword, it shows the shrine, and then the wood spirit Sakuya appears. She has little power left, but with what she does have, she summons Okami Amaterasu, making the statue come to life. Shortly after, something starts to rustle inside her robes. Out comes the wandering artist, Issun. It appears Issun and Sakuya know each other, but nothing is said about the relationship as of yet.
Issun decides he's going to travel you. Okami in response eats him. He gets out right away, but like anybody else, didnt exactly like that. To show that he's fine to come along, he shows his mighty sword, Denkomaru, which like him, seems to be shorter than just a couple centimeters.
After Issun and and Sakuya finishing talking, Okami too if she could talk, Sakuya summons a giant, leafless, unnamed tree. She tells you that the souls of all the villagers are in the fruit that hangs from the tree. Issun wonders how you're going to get it down. You then get control for the first time. (Only took 13 paragraphs)
Outside the tree:
The controls are fairly simple, even more so because you cant do much on this screen. A is to jump, B doesnt do anything yet, C is to dig, which doesnt do anything yet, Z is bark, which lets you see your status, and waggle is to dash. As you dash, you start from kicking up dust behind you, to leaving grass behind you, to leaving flowers.
There's little you can do on the first screen. If you try to leave towards the village, some secret force that seems to appear in all games stops you. You can also examine the fruit, where Issun just wonders how you'll get it down. The only other thing to do is enter the tree's giant shining hole, so we do.
Inside the tree: screen 1
When we enter the tree, it doesnt look anything like the inside of a tree. It has a clear, night sky above the grassy fields you're on, which must be floating. After wondering where the hell I am, we go farther ahead. Due to this being a tutorial area, we get stoped every 25 or so meters. First stop is the Origin Mirror, a mystical thing that is said to record the memories of whoever appears in it's reflection for all eternity. AKA a save point.
After you saved, and cross a bridge, you find your first jars. You break these by running and waggling the wiimote to headbutt. Right now the only thing that comes out is money, a couple hundred yen per jar. Keep moving ahead and you seem to come to a dead end. Only Issun tells you that you can wall jump by hitting a wall mid air then jumping again. Do so and you find a treasure chest with a Holy Bone S. You open chests the same way as jars.
As you go farther along after jumping up the cliff, you'll find a stone saying "River of Heavens". Except there's no river connecting where you are to the other area you see. There's a little bit of water, or a dense amount of stars that acts like water, but then a gap. With no way across, we go up the hill nearby. At the top, Issun notices a constellation with a missing star. You then get to draw in the missing star using a brush. Doing so releases Yomigami, the dragon god, who gives you the brush power of restoration. Each time you use this, your ink meter goes down one, you start with three. If you use all three, you revert into a god powerless wolf, losing your color and ability to use divine instruments, along with brush strokes. All jars now can give you ink if you're running low.
After Yomigami gives you the power of restoration, we go back down to the river, where we bring up the drawing page, and use our brush to drawn in the river of heavens. Draw in enough of it to cross the other side, and then you can swim across. The other side is a circular area with a gate, shining just like the entrance to the tree. Issun doesnt let you go through untill you open up the chest in the area, which contains the Astral Pouch. Fill this up with 200 points of food, and it counts as an extra life. All jars now hold food, the jars near by containing only food. After getting those, we head to the next screen
Inside the tree: screen 2
This screen has little of intrest till the end. It's just a long path, with some jars, alot of trees, and a river. If you jump over the river in a certain spot, you find a chest with your first stray bead. There are one hundred of these beads to collect. As you get to the end, you find a cave-ish area with a statue of the great warrior Nagi, except his sword is broken. As you approach though, the gate closes. With nothing else you can do, you use your restoration brush stroke to fix his sword. Doing so reveals another constellation. Fill in the missing start to reveal Tachigami the mouse. Tachigami gives you the brush stroke power slash, able to cut through even boulders. After practicing on a boulder, it lets you run around again, where you use the stroke on the closed gate to break it.
Nothing else happens again untill you're half way down the path, where a fire-ish circle appears around you, trapping you in with a couple demons. This gives you the chance to use your first divine instrument, the reflector Divine Retribution. Waggle the wiimote to swing it around for a couple hit combo. After a couple hits the demons turn to stone, which means they become weak to brush strokes. Using a power slash on them like this will finish them off. Easy fight of course. You then continue down the path, and nothing happens untill you get near the entrance to the tree, where you fight your second battle. This battle is the same as the first, simple fight vs a couple demons. After this second battle, we exit the tree.
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Status
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-Health: 3
-Ink: 3
-Items:
--Holy Bone S
--Stray Bead (1)
--Yen: 03917
---Equip:
----Reflectors:
-----Divine Retribution
---Tools:
----Astral Pouch
-Foods Found:
--Orange(fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Peach (fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Apple (fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Dumplings (fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Potato(fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Radish(fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Carrot(fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Gourd (fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Chinese Cabbage (fills Astral Pouch 1)
--Cabbage(fills Astral Pouch 1)
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Battles
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Total # of battles: 2
Time 100%: 2
Damage 100%: 1
Damage 75%: 1
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08 December 2009