Hah - did it!

[amethyst73]

Got the Fire Tablet in Okami!  (After only 6 or maybe 7 tries with the you-must-do-this-for-the-plot-to-continue digging game.)   Scene with Kaguya afterwards very touching and sad, made me choke up a little.

The huz *abhorred* this particular digging game, and I think it was the one where nezumiko choked too doing it on Playstation - for which I DO NOT BLAME HER.  Geez, some of these things would have been completely impossible using analog sticks instead of a free-draw brush!

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[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I hated that digging game; it took me like 8 or more tries. CP says that the next digging game is plot-optional, btw.

The spaceship was a bit WTF, though, I must admit.

Thank you again for Okami! It's been immense fun.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! I'm really glad you're enjoying it so much. Yeah, the spaceship was a little surreal and WTF; the huz wasn't kidding at one point when he told me that the spaceship and the computers were kind of interesting.

I had the Golden Inkpot (quick refills) equipped, and hit upon the happy accident of using bombs the time I actually made it through. Oh, and drawing Bloom on your human when s/he finally gets to the bottom will make them walk faster and therefore reach the required spot quicker.

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

The spaceship, and in fact the whole story, come from The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child, a classical Japanese fairy tale, about an elderly bamboo cutter and his wife who pray for a child, and one day, while cutting bamboo, find a perfect baby girl within the hollow stem. They take her in and raise her as their own beloved daughter, and she grows to be a great beauty, so lovely that she is hidden behind screens like a princess. The bamboo cutter's family becomes wealthy, because whenever they cut a stalk of bamboo, after taking in the child, they find a gold coin.

The daughter's great beauty draws many suitors, and she sets them several impossible tasks. The stories of the princes quests, or deceptions in some cases, in attempting to fulfill the quests, takes up much of the story.

At the end of the story, the daughter tearfully reveals that she is in fact a Moon Princess, and had been banished to Earth for some sin in the Celestial Plain, but now her Heavenly Family are calling her to return. A palanquin with a royal procession of bearers come down from the full moon, and bear the Princess back into the sky. As she goes, she bids a tearful goodbye to the bamboo cutter and his wife, calling them her parents.

Although go read the link, because that's the whole story and is much more lovely than my summary.

I think the spaceship is just Okami's playful reinterpretation of the story.

And yes, that stupid digging game is where I gave up on the Playstation.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

It's *much* more feasible with a "real" brush. Also, srsly, CherryBombs are your friend.

Looking forward to reading the original story, but of course am at work now - no game playing for me :(