Hideki Kamiya Reveals Spider-Man 2 Scene That Inspired Key Game Sequence in Okami

Hideki Kamiya revealed that Okami's main planner took inspiration from a country successful Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 movie to signifier 1 peculiar infinitesimal successful the highly-acclaimed 2006 game.

If you’ve seen the movie and played Okami, you astir apt cognize what infinitesimal I’m talking about. If you haven’t, this is your informing that spoilers prevarication up (though, to beryllium fair, some of these things are implicit 20 years aged astatine this point).

In the improbable lawsuit you haven’t seen the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies, there’s a country successful the 2nd movie wherever helium uses his webs to halt a runaway bid astatine the past second. It’s an iconic infinitesimal that has sparked endless tributes and parodies implicit the years — and it seemingly inspired a communicative bushed successful Okami, of each things.

In the game, players indispensable find a mode to transverse a massive, raging stream successful bid to advancement to different area. A non-playable quality is tasked with repairing the span that crosses this river, but successful the mediate of his chore, a log comes flying downstream astatine apical speeds, prompting a timed gameplay conception wherever Amaterasu is tasked with slowing the log down utilizing her Vine powerfulness earlier she careens disconnected the broadside of a waterfall.

As told by Okami manager Hideki Kamiya connected his authoritative X/Twitter account, this conception was created by planner Hiroshi Shibata, who took nonstop inspiration from Spider-Man 2.

“This country was planned by Shibata-san, who served arsenic the main planner, drafting inspiration from the bid country successful Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2,” Kamiya said matter-of-factly successful effect to a clip from the infinitesimal posted to the authoritative Okami X account.

この場面は、メインプランナーを務めてくれた柴田さんが、サム・ライミ版スパイダーマン2の電車の場面から着想を得て企画しました… https://t.co/O9ZtBYNlLZ

This is 1 of respective insights that Kamiya has fixed astir his games implicit the past fewer months, astir precocious confirming that Leon S. Kennedy was, indeed, named aft the 1994 movie Leon: The Professional. Kamiya famously directed Resident Evil 2, creating 1 of the series’ astir iconic characters whose popularity has stood the trial of time. (He’s adjacent getting a life-sized statue successful Shibuya aboriginal this twelvemonth to observe Resident Evil’s 30th anniversary.)

Okami is yet getting a sequel game, produced by the newly-formed Clovers, founded by Kamiya aft his exit from Platinum Games. In collaboration with Capcom, it is simply a nonstop continuation of Okami’s main story, not a spin-off successful the vein of Okamiden connected the DS.

“I ever wanted to make an Ōkami sequel,” Kamiya told america successful an exclusive interrogation successful February 2025. “Thinking backmost to astir 19 years agone erstwhile I archetypal created the game, you person to retrieve that the communicative itself isn't truly complete, and I ever wanted to implicit this game.”

For now, not overmuch other is known astir the project, with Clovers saying it volition beryllium immoderate clip earlier thing further is shown disconnected publicly. However, we do know that it's being developed successful Capcom's RE engine, which gives america a vague thought of what the sequel's ocular plan mightiness look similar disconnected the backmost of its unsocial creation benignant successful the archetypal game.

Image Credits: Sony Pictures / Capcom

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