Hideki Kamiya, the director of the beloved Okami and current head of Platinum Games, has expressed a great desire to revisit the world of Okami in a proper sequel, which will no doubt stoke his fans also making the same demands.
When it launched, Okami wasn’t well received, and only built up a following later, necessitating an HD remaster to future consoles after its initial release. An interview was had with Kamiya discussing the development of Okami, possibly fascinating those entranced by the classic title (English closed captions are available):
Kamiya touched upon things they left out of Okami, that they planned to implement a sequel, and the regret Kamiya feels over not being able to fulfill those goals:
When building a new IP, you get a lot of ideas mid-development that you want to implement. However, in the later part of development, some of these ideas cannot be implemented anymore for system or schedule reasons.
You start saying: “Let’s put what we couldn’t do this time in the sequel.”
In Okami, for both the story and the Celestial Brush’s mechanics, we talked about how we could take time and develop these further in a sequel, making it more fun and stress-free.
We obviously wanted to make a sequel.
Ultimately, things took another turn. Okami wasn’t a commercial hit back when we released it. It didn’t sell that many copies.
However, it gradually became a critical success, positively received by many people. It eventually reached even more people with the release of Okami HD on various platforms. It grew the player base and allowed even more people to enjoy the game.
At the same time, I started seeing people ask about these plot points that we left hanging, asking for a sequel. The more I see those, the more I feel this is work that I’ve left unfinished. There’s always this part of me that thinks that I need to take care of this at some point.
I want to do it someday.
It should be noted that Okami received a sequel of sorts in the form of Okamiden, however Kamiya had no involvement in it, and is seen as something of a “spiritual successor”.
Bring back God Hand.
No. Gods no. Don’t make a sequel, just move the f♥♥k on. Just take the lessons learned in Okami and take it onto the new IP instead of sequels that can potentially s♥♥t/retcon/misrepresent/devalue the first one.
Kamiya is a hack and all his shitty games have been flops.
Just remake okamiden
Go suck Nintendo and Tencent’s dick, so they’ll buy the IP from Crapcom.