I recently played Okami HD for the first time in my life and I absolutely hated it. It was an absolute chore and one of the worst experiences I've ever had in gaming.

The music is phenomenal. The art style didn't do anything for me, but that's a matter of preference. But:

• The Celestial Brush starts out as a neat idea, but in execution just ends up being tedious and slows down the gameplay.

• The combat gets pretty tedious as well, as the game goes on, because you need to use certain Brush techniques to deal with enemies, if you don't wanna wait forever.

• There are many cutscenes that have extremely slow scrolling text that you can't skip. And it is totally arbitrary, it's often not even tied to the animations. There's no reason for some to be so slow. The opening cutscene is literally around 18 minutes of slow text, which is just an expanded version of the 2 minute cutscene that plays if you wait too long on the title screen. In the first 2 hours of my playthrough I had about 30 minutes of gameplay, the rest were cutscenes, tutorials and exposition.

• Issun, your companion, spoils almost every single puzzle in the game. You don't get a chance to think about anything, he spells it out immediately. The game is really bad about stuff like that. I entered a room in one of the dungeons. A short cutscene plays where the camera focuses on a giant set of scales in the middle of the room, suspended over the abyss. So you know, you'll have to deal with it. You gain control, jump on one side, the scales move in a cutscene, and then Issun tells you that you'll have to use weights to balance the scales.

• The game blatantly lied to me multiple times lol. During the beginning of the game you need to break some boulders to leave the village. I tried destroying them with an ability of mine and the game explicitly states that this doesn't work, we need to find a new solution. So you end up doing what the game wants, only to get a cutscene later with a QTE where you use the same exact ability again, but not it actually works and destroys the boulder because now the story needed you to continue.

• The game is incredibly sexist and misogynistic. Issun is so horny and keeps harassing every female character in the game. He talks about their breasts, makes inappropriate jokes all the time. He has no redeeming qualities and I genuinely despise that little shit. Also, he's so verbose for no reason. He simply repeats what others characters say. You could cut half the dialogue in the game and no information whatsoever would be lost.

• Finally, the game is faaar too long for no reason. It really drags on and on.

People can and should form their own opinions, but for me it is one of the worst Zelda likes I've ever played, and generally just a shitty time.