Okay so I'm about an hour and a half in and I'm really enjoying things so far.

First and foremost, it is quite possibly the best looking DS title to date, beating out the likes of Final Fantasy and Nintendos own titles.  They perefectly recreate the areas of the original game on the DS which is quite impressive to say the least, not sure if EVERY area in the game is here but so far it is.  The only drawback is that there are "doors" for the lack of a better term that section things off (for loading) but the load times are just about nil so they don't get in the way and it streams together like the original areas.

Controls?  Well they spank the pants off the PS2 and Wii if you ask me even with the lack of camera control (it has fixed angles and follows behind Chibi Ammy) and only D pad with no analog. Basically the painting is spot on, MUCH better than the PS2 painting, and a step up from the Wii IR controls, it was simply how the paintbrush was meant to be implimented.  

Mechanics are mostly the same.  Draw the sun, the sun appears, paint, oh look that bridge is fixed!  One new power you get early on in the game is the ability to control this kid like you would Princess Zelda in Spirit Tracks.  Making for a few new puzzles in the game unlike the original.

My biggest fear right now is this will be a straight up rehash, many of the same characters and plots are being reused just now with a couple of new ones added in to make it "fresh", but honestly even if it is, I won't be mad, it's simply great to play this on the DS. Also for those that disliked Zelda on the DS with the touch only controls, do yourself a favor and pick this bad boy up, it's 5 dollars cheaper, follows the same formula of Zelda, and is set up to be more like the open field 3D zeldas AKA the console Zeldas.

my only question is: how do you feel about moving with the D-Pad rather than an analog stick?

IMO it sounds like it could be a big disadvantage of putting the game on the DS, that said I never any major problems with Mario 64 DS' use of the D-pad

I'll be buying it for 3DS, Circle Pad to the rescue!

Well it's really not that big of a difference, I don't mind it as being a big PC gamer WASD works to the same effect, no control of walk/run and you can't get specific angles just 45 degrees... in combat I really don't notice the disadvantages of only using a D pad.

I played the demo and really enjoyed it.

When I've finished with Pokemon and the 3DS you will be MINE OKAMIDEN

*thumbs up* It deserves more sales than the PS2 game if it reaches 1m I'm certain Capcom would be blown away and estatic that Okami found it's base.

Well it's difficult to know how it did sell, the data doesn't include EMEAA for both versions. And I live in the UK and I'm fairly certain I have Okami...

*checks*

Yep, it's here. So we don't know...

Reaching 1mil will be hard though, because those who do know about it will be in my position, either just got Pokemon and/or about to get a 3DS, so will put off okamiden because it'll go down in price soon. Sadly, a lot of those people will forget about it.

Shame really. Great series deserves great sales

I approve of this thread! n_n

very nice glad your enjoying it lol i will get along with my 3ds itll be my launch title lol.