so my sis brought home the copy of Okami for the Wii (she bought it for her roommate, but he already finished it) 'cause I was curious as to how the controls were. I tried it out yesterday and got up to Kusa Village so far and the controls took me a while to get used to.

I'm not too fond of how some of them were, but the Wiimote doesn't exactly have as much buttons as the PS2 controller, so I can see why the controls are like that. For running around, you use the nunchuck control stick of course (and to do the Fleetfoot dodging move, you have to swing it; although all I could do was get Amaterasu to do back flips :/...still haven't gotten used to how to do it sideways). The C button on the nunchuck is used for digging and the Z button is used for looking at things and talking to people.

As for attacking, you have to swing the Wiimote left and right to do consecutive hits (it felt a lot slower attacking this way since on the PS2 you could just tap the square button rapidly). Using the brush techniques frustrated me a bit. Sometimes when I brought up the drawing screen, the brush would shoot off screen and I have to bring up the drawing screen a couple more times before I can finally get the brush to where I want it to be (REALLY SUCKED when this happened during a boss fight). It was also annoying when I would do the Slash brush technique and Issun would seem to get angry at me 'cause I can't draw a straight horizontal line as smoothly as I could on the PS2 version . Same goes with drawing circles, which frustrated me again because the game wouldn't accept my shaky circles when I used the Bloom brush technique ):<.

I then decided to take a break and plugged in the PS2 to play FFIX instead. I think I'm starting to get the hang of Tetra Master after having to do that darn card competition in game with Zidane (surprisingly it only took me three tries to beat the champion; I was sooo close to winning all her cards). I might go off and train Freya a bit...she's like lvl 20 when everyone else is close to 30 (I could train Steiner too, but he annoys me, so I won't).

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