

You’ll spend hours and hours clicking through text bubbles filled with choppy and repetitive dialogue. In fact, the entire script is a bore to slog through. He’s obnoxious, sexist, and very chatty, making a vast portion of the story unbearable to read. So Issun provides her half of the conversation when meeting various characters throughout Nippon. Amaterasu, or Ammy, as Issun so affectionately calls her, does not speak. The story follows the fierce wolf goddess Amaterasu and her spunky sprite Issun. Even with its HD upgrades, it feels dated.

It’s pure in the sense that it keeps true to the original, but it’s an artform that has faded over the years. This remaster pays homage to a classic game from over a decade ago, and if you enjoyed it then, you’ll enjoy it now. is written in the title), but it’s when the game opens new doors to the same stuff as before, and does so over and over again, it loses any allure or charm it had to begin with. Door after door keeps you locked in what feels like an eternal loop of what has now become a swirling, blotchy mess of color. Each brush stroke is of the same thickness, and the vibrant color palette begins to wash away as each painting bleeds into the last. It’s all breathtaking at first, but as you get closer to the end of the hallway, you realize that each painting is very similar to the one before. Thick black brush strokes filled with brilliant watercolors depict sweeping Japanese landscapes, bright pink cherry blossoms, traditional Japanese architecture, and various forms of wildlife. Adorning walls on either side of you are beautiful Japanese paintings. It’s a long white hallway with a door at the far end. Imagine you’re walking through an art gallery.
