No frills to be found in Okami's Wii port
If you were hoping that the recently announced
Wii version of
Okami would lure you back into its beautiful world with new environments, bosses, weapons and
so forth, you're about to have your somewhat optimistic viewpoint obscured by one Didier Malenfant. In an
interview with IGN, the president of
Ready At Dawn explains that
Okam-Wii (see what we did there?) will be an "exact port of the PS2 version," save for the magical brush strokes which will now correspond to motions of the Wiimote. Malenfant argues that messing with the game in any form would simply draw ire from
Clover devotees.
Strangely, the same crowd is currently
wagging their fingers at Ready At Dawn for failing to pretty up the port in some way. While Malenfant's reasoning may appear to hide some reticence to retool, one has to consider that the game in question tanked on the platform with the largest install base. The Wii version isn't aimed at gamers who bought and enjoyed
Okami -- it's aimed at the millions of
idiots people who didn't. If anything, we think Clover's masterpiece would be better served by having some of
that bloat excised.
[Via
Wii Fanboy]
