Okamiday Volume 3: Get the Retro Soundtrack free.
By now if you haven’t heard that Okami‘s coming to the Wii, you at least know how badly I’ve wanted this to happen. In that light, here we have Okamiday, Volume 3. I will be posting assets and an article every Saturday about Okami, the PS2 game that’s widely considered Clover Studios’ swan song, a game whose sales were so weak as to likely be a major factor in the developer’s dissolution.
Capcom’s web presence for Okami for us anglophones is pretty disappointing. What? No, it isn’t? Well, I’ll admit it’s a beautiful site and is very nice, but have you seen what the Japanese got? A far deeper, more elaborate site with lots of hidden goodies. What sort of goodies, you say? Why do you keep asking yourself questions, you say?
Poke around a bit on the site and, just as I did, you might bump into an MP3 or 17. You can pick up the soundtrack to Okami for free by downloading it there, but there’s just one caveat. These are interpretations of the songs from the game in a retro style, the way the game would have sounded if it were an RPG on an NES. The first track, in fact, is a compilation of others. It actually sounds like gameplay would have sounded in an NES Dragon Warrior-style RPG version of Okami. This is great stuff if you’re into this kind of retro madness. Here’s how you find it.
Go to Okami‘s Japanese website. Wait for the elaborate flash content to load up. Click on the button that you see here, at left. The one with the sprite version of Amaterasu on it. Wait some more. Click the black line of text to start the minigame.
Click any one of the characters on the screen. You’ll go through pages of Japanese dialog, each of which will end with the word “click” in English. When you see “click,” well… click on it. After several pages, some have more to say than others, you will be given an option to choose from some downloads. Some are Windows ICO files or JPGs made from game art, and some are MP3s. Download links to the MP3s are provided for Windows and MacOSX platforms.
Note that some of the characters are hidden, and will only appear when you click on objects like the whirlpool, buildings, and the tiny islands. Amusingly, the islands hold Joe and Sylvia from Clover’s own Viewtiful Joe series. I was able to find 17 separate tracks. Happy hunting!
See also:
Okamiday Volume 1: What Might Have Been
Okamiday Volume 2: Love at First Brush
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Aaron
