NINTENDO Okami creator 'disappointed' by Twilight Princess

[Chandoo]

Okami creator 'disappointed' by Twilight Princess

Posted Mar 6th 2007 12:15PM by Jonti Davies
Filed under: Culture, Adventure, RPGs

Okami is deeply beautiful to our eyes, and it's a superb game. Twilight Princess, we feel, is a deeply brilliant game. But is Link's most recent adventure also beautiful? Okami's Director, Hideki Kamiya, was in Tokyo last week to pick up an Entertainment Award (for his work on Okami, natch) at the 10th Media Arts Festival, which is an event held annually by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. (And that must have felt good, after Capcom's no-show at the AIAS awards.)

Kamiya was asked how he felt about Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and he explained: "To be frank, I was disappointed when I saw [Twilight Princess'] visuals. I'm a Zelda freak -- it's no overstatement to say that I created Okami because of Zelda. I really wanted [Twilight Princess] to have that regal aura, because Zelda was what we were aspiring to. I wanted it to show me things that were surprising, but..."

So, which game do you find to be more beautiful?

 

[Crow]

It's good to see Hideki Kamiya actually admitting that Okami was inspired by Zelda, unlike 'some' people.

 

[spectre7]

humm

well if it were me i wouldn't compare these games.yes inspiration has been taken from Zelda but okami is just in a diff world yes the Japanese styles of game play are exactly the same in both games but okami is more visualistic ..umm i think neh ways both excellent games

 

[Chandoo]

not that i own a cube, but reading a lot of posts on various forums and websites i've gotten the impression that Twilight princess just needed more work time, it wasnt as polished as one would expect a zelda game to be.

 

[devilscallmedad]

actually it was all because zelda was supposed to be 2005, they just delayed it for the wii launch

 

[Chandoo]

actually it was all because zelda was supposed to be 2005, they just delayed it for the wii launch

that doesnt explain the lack of polish, and even on the cube its not the best there is.

 

[devilscallmedad]

that's because th GC discs could only hold i think 2.5GB of data so the game was desgined around that meaning midi music, no dialogues..etc

 

[Chandoo]

that's because th GC discs could only hold i think 2.5GB

1.8 gb to be precise, but there have been multiple disc cube games in the past (all the Re titles made on the cube).

 

[Fahad007]

yes this ^ is the point they can make 2 or three disks