If you have a PS2 or Wii (preferably PS2). I urge you to try Okami! Once you've played it, you will never want to go back to Zelda. I'm dead serious. One of the best features of Okami is that you just hold down a button and draw a line or a circle or other simple forms to use your abilities, reducing the number of buttons (which in my eyes would seem more wife-friendly). The drawings are simple and easy to remember Don't want to spoil to much but an example would be to draw a straight line to cut something (rock or tree etc) or look up to the sky and draw a circle to bring out the sun. It's a VERY beautiful game. The worst part is the beginning (intro) which is a 10-15 min long "cutscene"/storytelling thing. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to bring on comparisons between the two versions (PS2 or Wii) but I'll just say that the controls on the PS2 is actually way more newbie-friendly.
As for PS3 games, you're probably out of luck. Although nothing remotely the same, I think Ratchet and Clank might be a good fit. It's an adventure game as well but not as puzzle heavy and a lot more linear (Zelda is open-world, Ratchet is more go from A to B). Anyway it's a bit expensive for a one year old game but it's on Amazon for 40 bucks I think. Also on PSN there's a standalone "expansion" Ratchet & Clank (subtitled "Quest For Booty") for 15$ and should last around 3-4 hours they say (probably even more for non-hardcore gamers). It does NOT require the original Ratchet game and CAN be played without it. Just in case you want a piece (and pay less) rather than the whole cake.
For such an ambitious game I think it sold pretty poorly. I think the numbers were around 400k for the PS2 version and around 200k for the Wii version. I don't think Capcom got their money back (which is probably why they dissolved Clover Studio, the makers of Okami).
orangekows wrote:
iKilledKenny~ wrote:
Well, as several other people have stated I'd have to go with Okami on this one. Sadly it didn't sell well....I would have liked to see some sort of sequel or spin-off. The development team was certainly capeable of doing it.I think it sold better than I thought it did. I was at Gamestop the other day to get God of War and I saw that Okami made greatest hits.
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