Non-tabletop, non-computer, non-handheld -- stuff for a dedicated game console like Wii or Xbox or the like. Okami was released for the Playstation2, but apparently there's going to be a Wii version in the future, which should be pretty amazing; a lot of the game action depends on your character's use of a magic Celestial Brush to "paint" changes to reality, so the motion-sensitive controller for the inkbrush should be tons of fun.
I'm not much of a gamer at all, but Okami (http://www.womengamers.com/revprev/adv/okami.php) is really something special. It doesn't look like anything else out there -- the graphics are like sumi-e paintings come to life. It's absolutely gorgeous and compelling to play, even if, like me, you don't tend to go for the first-person-shooters or endless combo-button-mashing sort of fighting games; and it's absolutely steeped in characters based on Japanese myth and folklore (http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/920500/45099). Here's a clip from the bit where you (playing as the goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf) start off on a mission from Princess Fuse to hunt down the missing canine warriors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF3xdNdydaM)...
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Non-tabletop, non-computer, non-handheld -- stuff for a dedicated game console like Wii or Xbox or the like. Okami was released for the Playstation2, but apparently there's going to be a Wii version in the future, which should be pretty amazing; a lot of the game action depends on your character's use of a magic Celestial Brush to "paint" changes to reality, so the motion-sensitive controller for the inkbrush should be tons of fun.
I'm not much of a gamer at all, but Okami (http://www.womengamers.com/revprev/adv/okami.php) is really something special. It doesn't look like anything else out there -- the graphics are like sumi-e paintings come to life. It's absolutely gorgeous and compelling to play, even if, like me, you don't tend to go for the first-person-shooters or endless combo-button-mashing sort of fighting games; and it's absolutely steeped in characters based on Japanese myth and folklore (http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/920500/45099). Here's a clip from the bit where you (playing as the goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf) start off on a mission from Princess Fuse to hunt down the missing canine warriors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF3xdNdydaM)...