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  • Der_tolle_Emil #1 4 years ago

    Looking good. I especially like this one: [link url=http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/9/3/0/4/7/screen17.jpg.jpg
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    No idea what's going on there but it sure looks nice. And it's out on my birthday as well!

  • asphaltcowboy #2 4 years ago

    Before anyone complains about the borders, they've already confirmed the game will ship with a full 16:9 setting! :P

  • Darren #3 4 years ago

    Right so now we have a better idea of just how un-16:9-like that widescreen ratio really is if the placement of the EG logo and size of the black side borders are anything to go by. Guess I'll stick to playing Wii games on my 21" Sony CRT TV then where they look pretty darn good through RGB SCART (it is still an excellent TV IMO).

  • Darren #4 4 years ago

    Ooops, sorry, asphaltcowboy, too late... LOL

  • Der_tolle_Emil #5 4 years ago

    If you compare the images with the PS2 shots you will also notice that the parchment filter is missing. This has also been added in a later build and is not in the build from which those screens are taken. Just mentioning it because there as been quite a discussion about this in the forums.

  • Golgo #6 4 years ago

    Looks great, but really the best improvement they could make to this wonderful game would be to re-pace it - maybe ditch the entire latter third.

  • konnsky #7 4 years ago

    so the ps2 version didn't have widescreen as an option, then?

    i'm yet to play that beautiful game..

  • Darren #8 4 years ago

    @konnsky - No it didn't but having played it on the PS3 in 60Hz @ 1080p with the Full Screen option on to stretch it to widescreen, I didn't really notice because even stretched to 16:9 the game looks perfectly fine because of the art-style it uses.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #9 4 years ago

    Elliptic circles look just as wrong even when they are cell shaded.

  • Cheapshot #10 4 years ago

    I think the bloom lighting from the PS2 version is missing. The screenshot of the animal feeding bit looks nowhere near as good as on PS2. Still, it looks very nice!

  • smelly #11 4 years ago

    Lots of anal retentiveness on this forum isnt there?

  • Nikanoru #12 4 years ago

    I think the bloom lighting from the PS2 version is missing.


    Well I would hope they add that back in, like they have with the parchment filter. There's no reason not to.

  • smelly #13 4 years ago

    unless the bloom was added to the ps2 version to hide something or as a hack to avoid doing something else - and they've decided it looks better without it? maybe?

    because it wont be because the console isnt capable - bloom is one of the easier effects to pull off..

  • Cheapshot #14 4 years ago

    "unless the bloom was added to the ps2 version to hide something or as a hack to avoid doing something else - and they've decided it looks better without it? maybe?"

    The bloom effect was integeral to the visuals of the PS2 version and without it the game looks a bit murky and almost lifeless, try the PS2 version (with an RGB cable or something) and you'll find the visuals shit all over the Wii version so far.

    Considering Okami is a PS2 game I'm guessing it was coded really awkwardly, using effects PS2 only seems to do, so I'm guessing recreating the bloom effect isn't as easy as you think.



    Edited by Cheapshot at 19/03/08 @ 23:12

  • Nikanoru #15 4 years ago

    Considering Okami is a PS2 game I'm guessing it was coded really awkwardly, using effects PS2 only seems to do, so I'm guessing recreating the bloom effect isn't as easy as you think.

    Bloom is bloom. No matter how you achieve it. All consoles of the previous generation did plenty of bloom, and the Wii does bloom even better (according to the MP3 developers). If they can't just port the code straight to it, then they can recreate it otherwise.

  • smelly #16 4 years ago

    you dont know how easy/hard it is though.. as you dont have the code.

  • Nikanoru #17 4 years ago

    bloom is one of the easier effects to pull off..


    you dont know how easy/hard it is though.. as you dont have the code.




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