Tori-Emaki: convincing enough to fool the cat.
Monday / 03.31.08 / 09:16PM / Joe / comments: 0
Tori-Emaki is one of the weird Justify-Your-Eye downloads available on the PlayStation Store. For $2, you get to aimlessly direct a flock of birds across a nifty Japanese scroll... in the sumi-e ink painting style that we all know much better from Okami.
It's actually pretty cool. The art itself is very nice, and the music and sound effects follow along with what you find as you explore.
The motion of the birds is apparently close enough to attract my cat's attention. For a while, I was worried she was going to leap up onto my TV, which would have been unacceptable.
What you're supposed to do is wave your arms in whatever direction you want the birds to fly: left, right, and up or down into the painting's depth. It doesn't really work all that well, which means you seem to spend a lot of time getting stressed out that the birds aren't maintaining the course you intended.
If you don't really care much where the birds go, as long as they go somewhere - or if you're a cat - it's definitely a pretty and different experience.
I just told Clark to flap his arms like a bird, and that worked well enough. | 
