Capcom / Clover Studio’s beautiful “is it art or is it gaming” title Okami is almost upon us, with a release date of September 19, 2006. Utilizing beautifully-rendered woodblock print visuals and produced by Viewtiful Joe producer Atsushi Inaba, Okami takes place in a lifeless world, full of stark greys and blacks, vicious beasts and terrifying scenery. The goal of the player and it’s main character, Ama Terasu, the sun god who takes the form of a wolf, is to bring life back to the world, mainly through boss-fights, which fuel the world’s “life force”, eventually giving colour and life back to the world. This is absolutely one of our top games of the year which we’ve been looking forward to for a long long time.

Watch a short Okami gameplay video after the jump..