History VideoGame / Okami

** Inkfinity stones give you infinite ink for a while. The Bead Neckless gives your permenant infinite ink when equipped.

* AcclaimedFlop: It's hard to think that the most beloved work of CloverStudios is also the one that led to their dissolution…

** There is no hint that the Ice Storm brush technique is gained along with Blizzard. You can paint a "snowflake" (an X with a horizontal line through the middle) which causes ice shards to rain down and freeze multiple targets. The size of the drawing determines the strength of the attack and how many ink pots are consumed.

** Waka's design was evidently inspired by ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman''.

* FrillsOfJustice: Amaterasu's FacialMarkings are more elaborate in her fully-powered form.

* CelShading

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: In a [[YourMileageMayVary relatively easy]] game, this is a mild example: the Yoshpet Forest.

* FridgeHorror: Blight is made of swords... [[spoiler:and lives in the Emperor's bowels]]. ''Ouch''.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: How is it that Amaterasu can swim for a whole minute while carrying Rao in a cutscene, but drowns in forty seconds without the water tablet?

** The Ice Storm brush technique is gained along with Blizzard. However, there is no mention of it in the game or manual. After you get Blizzard, you can paint a "snowflake" (an X with a - through the middle) to cause ice shards ato rain down and freeze multiple targets. The size of the drawing determines the strengthe of the attack and how many ink pots are consumed.

* {{Hammerspace}}: Where Amaterasu and her friends seem to keep their weapons when not using them.

* ForeShadowing: During every encounter with Wakka, the ''"half-baked prophet"'' will dish out vague predictions of events to come. There are also many clues given by the game itself: Such as [[spoiler: Orochi's spirit flying off after his defeat]], and even minor ones like the [[spoiler: Cutter house not being frozen by the cursed zone in Taka pass]].

* TronLines: [[spoiler:[[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The Ark of Yamamoto]]]].

* IAmNotShazam: A lot of fan works, especially videos, seem to assume the lead character's name is "Ōkami." To be fair, it is ''part'' of her name (the caption when she's introduced reads "Okami Amaterasu"). It's just that Amaterasu is the most important part of the name.
** It's not actually that her ''name'' contains Okami; it's actually a title. Okami translates directly to "wolf" - thus they are saying "Amaterasu the Wolf".
** As noted under PunnyName, Ōkami can also mean "great god," rendering it as "Great god Amaterasu."

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Shortly after handing the Fox Rods over to Rao, Amaterasu and Issun see a vision in which she's being pursued by some powerful, evil force. Naturally they go rushing to aid her at her temple, where an apparition leads them through a secret tunnel to the palace - at which point "Rao" reveals that she's actually Ninetails. Issun realizes that the vision you saw was from when the real Rao was killed (well before the game began), making the identity of a certain desiccated corpse you passed in the tunnel all too clear.]]

A sequel was released for [=Nintendo DS=] by the name of ''{{Okamiden}}'', starring Amaterasu's son Chibiterasu.

** And then there was ''{{Okamiden}}''.

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In 2010, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L-Q6gVCtc&feature=channel Amaterasu]] [[AndtheFandomRejoiced joined the playable roster]] of ''MarvelVsCapcom3''.

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 serpent blow by blow. In the end, the wolf [[HeroicSacrifice 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 snake'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 [[PhysicalGod physical form]].

* RealityIsUnrealistic: When Amaterasu uses [[UrineTrouble Golden Fury]], she hikes her leg up in a way that most people associate with male dogs. This confuses some people and is used as evidence to support the [[FanWank theory]] that Amaterasu is [[BodySnatcher using a male wolf vessel,]] not transforming into a wolf. In real life, whether a wolf hikes its leg or not is dependent on the wolf's position in the pack hierarchy, not its gender. Alpha wolves raise their leg when marking/urinating and subservient wolves squat down to urinate. Some female dogs hike their leg, too.

** Susano [[spoiler: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.]]

** And then there was ''{{Okamiden}}'' Oh how wrong you were, above troper...

** Mr. and Mrs. Cutter might just be one to HP Lovecraft's story "Cats of Ulthar."
*** They aren't. It's actually a story in Japan that translates to "Tongue Cut Sparrow".

*** To explore the ocean, you sail around on [[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker a talking red fish]]...

* SphereOfPower: Dragon Orb, Satomi Power Orbs, that Crystal that the Queen had, those stray beads. [[spoiler:And [[BigBad Yami]].]]

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Found mostly in Sasa Sanctuary and used in puzzles involving the waterspout technique.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: But you run into so many {{Disc One Final Dungeon}}s that you despair of ever finishing the game. Then you have the real VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon [[spoiler:the Ark of Yamato, a ''spaceship'' bedecked with TronLines. In Ancient Japan. Not to mention you are warned by the only speech bubble [[RainbowSpeak painted entirely red]] in the whole game before entering it that you are right before the point of no return. If the BossRush doesn't clue you in, that should]].

* WarpWhistle: 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.

** Amaterasu can wield various weapons which hover over her back. She starts out with a flaming shield, but can also use other shields, swords, or necklaces (which are used like a whip or shot like bullets.)

* OnlySixFaces: Or rather only 8 character types − little boy, little girl, man, woman, fat man, fat woman, old man and old woman. [[AndZoidberg And dogs.]] Each character of the same type has the exact same animations and reactions.

** Lechku is currently the image for this trope.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: The brush techniques.
* PantheraAwesome: A few areas have tigers walking around. These guys are trumped by Gekigami, the brush god of thunder - a ''huge'' and somewhat irritable tiger wielding a bow and [[strike: arrows]] ''lightning bolts.''

* SuddenHumility: One level forces Amaterasu to be shrunk to the same minuscule size as Issun. When a human foot nearly stomps on both of them, Issun doesn't fail to drop "Do you understand how I feel now?" We don't get to know how [[HeroicMime she]] felt about the "experience" though...