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Okami

Though this may well be Capcom's last hurrah on PS2, it's going out with style - and what a style it is.

Instead of comic strip cel-shading, Okami 's based on traditional Japanese brush-painting - and the result is dizzyingly slick. Once your eyes recover, there's an adventure ahead: as a god in the form of a wolf, you'll aid people in need and clobber dragons.

Get ready to run with the wolves as summer blooms.

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