After the closure of Clover Studio a few months after the release, a port for Wii was developed by Ready at Dawn , Tose , and Capcom, and released in It features a sumi-e -inspired cel-shaded visual style and the Celestial Brush , a gesture-system to perform miracles. The game was planned to use more traditional realistic rendering, but this had put a strain on the graphics processing of the PlayStation 2. Clover Studio switched to a cel-shaded style to reduce the processing, which led to the Celestial Brush concept. Although it suffered from poor sales, the game received critical acclaim, earning IGN 's Game of the Year. The Wii version earned similar praise, though the motion control scheme received mixed reviews. The player controls the main character, Amaterasu , in a woodcut, watercolor style, cel-shaded environment, which looks like an animated Japanese ink-illustration known as ink wash painting , or sumi-e with other styles of art. The gameplay style is a mix of action, platform, and puzzle gaming genres, and has been noted by many reviewers to have numerous similarities in overall gameplay style to The Legend of Zelda series , [3] an inspiration that director Hideki Kamiya, a self-proclaimed Zelda fan, has admitted has influenced his general game design. Combat is staged in a ghostly virtual arena, and Amaterasu can fight enemies using a combination of weapons, fighting techniques and Brush methods to dispatch the foes.


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It features a distinct sumi-e -inspired cel-shaded visual style and the Celestial Brush , a gesture-system used to perform miracles. It contains PlayStation Move support as well as use of the normal controller. The gameplay style is a mix of action, platform, and puzzle gaming genres, and has been noted by many reviewers to have numerous similarities in overall gameplay style to The Legend of Zelda series, [3] an inspiration that director Hideki Kamiya , a self-proclaimed Zelda-fan, has admitted has influenced his general game design. Combat is staged in a ghostly virtual arena, and Amaterasu can fight enemies using a combination of weapons, fighting techniques and Brush methods to dispatch the foes. The money can be spent on numerous items from merchants across the land, including healing goods, better weapons, tools and key items for completing quests. The money can also be used to buy new combat techniques at dojos throughout the land. Amaterasu uses the Celestial Brush to rejuvenate wilted plants as shown , repair bridges, slash foes or create elemental effects. Players can bring the game to a pause and call up a canvas, where the player can draw onto the screen, either using the left analog stick on the PlayStation 2 's DualShock controller or pointing with the Wii Remote. These techniques are learned through the course of the game by completing constellations to release the Celestial Brush gods inspired by the East Asia zodiac from their hiding spots.
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