PUPPY POWER: CAPCOM OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE DS OKAMI SEQUEL OKAMIDEN

If you’ve played Capcom/Clover’s PS2/Wii original Okami, it’s not hard to imagine what form its newly announced DS diminutive sequel will take: just reduce all of the original’s gestural/analog-stick Celestial Brushed mechanics to direct stylus control, and you’ve got what could easily amount to a handheld epic, which, from the video above, seems to have lost none of its lush Ukiyo-e inspired design.

Capcom’s prepping the full reveal for Tokyo Game Show, but IGN has translated the bits and scraps from its Famitsu magazine reveal and said the sequel will directly follow the events of the original, and will follow Chibiterasu (the ‘chibi‘ [tiny] name a riff off Okami‘s star Amaterasu) and a yet-unnamed companion on a yet-undetailed quest.