Killing Blockhead Grande Tuesday / 08.28.07 / 08:09PM / Joe
I'm about to hit endgame in Okami, so this weekend I put a couple hours in on some mini-missions and item collection. I dug up a sidequest FAQ on GameFAQs and cherry-picked some of the more interesting tasks. For example, I had no idea that you could upgrade certain brush techniques by donating money to those underground springs. Sheesh. Then there's this:
I am so glad that they had the balls to name that move "Golden Fury." Pun(s) intended.
Remember my self-aggrandizing artwork? Sei-an City's resident fashion artist is scribbling it all over town. Naturally, her existence means that there is a complicated sidequest connected to the images you draw on kimonos.
One of the kimono designs leads you to a cute Viewtiful Joe ref. And yeah, they do use the word "viewtiful."
Now for the film: I swear I thought of this before reading on GameFAQs. I got to the last Blockhead jerk, where you are challenged to memorize an eight-dot sequence. It's pretty much impossible. My big idea was to shoot a quick movie of Blockhead Grande's preamble (the dot positions are random, so you can't just bug him enough times so you can catch it all)... and then play back the movie frame by frame on the camera. All of a sudden Mr. Grande's attack wasn't so unbeatable.
And now that this video lives in YouTube, I feel I have lived up to Issun's word.
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