Okami sequel tease

Hideki Kamiya is publicly talking about an Okami sequel again, but the one thing people wanted to see most was the one thing he would not show. In a recent CLOVERS clip tied to the project, he said there is footage that is “definitely something we can’t show to the public,” which is why developers immediately started reading the room for how far along the game might be. (x.com) This sequel is not a rumor anymore. Capcom formally says the “Okami sequel project is underway,” and the official project page names Hideki Kamiya as director with M-TWO, Machine Head Works, and CLOVERS all listed as co-developers. (capcom-games.com) That matters because Okami spent nearly two decades looking like the kind of cult game everyone loved but nobody expected to get a true follow-up. The original launched in 2006, and Capcom’s new page frames the sequel as a return to the same world and the same adventure style rather than a loose reboot. (capcom-games.com) Kamiya is not just attached as a mascot name from the old box art. Capcom says the new project includes “various staff members of the original” Okami team, and Gematsu reported when the sequel was announced in December 2024 that Kamiya would direct it through his newly founded studio CLOVERS. (capcom-games.com) (gematsu.com) CLOVERS itself is part of the story. Gematsu lists the studio as founded in October 2023, and Automaton reported in March 2025 that Kamiya described the company as a place for highly creative work, not a factory built only to grind out old brands. (gematsu.com) (automaton-media.com) The sequel also arrived at a very specific moment in Kamiya’s career. Automaton reported that he left PlatinumGames in October 2023, spent about a year out of the industry, and then re-emerged with CLOVERS and the Okami sequel attached to it. (automaton-media.com 1) (automaton-media.com 2) So when he teases unseen footage now, fans are not hearing it as random banter. They are hearing it from the director of the 2006 original, now leading a new studio whose first headline project is the long-delayed sequel Capcom unveiled at The Game Awards in December 2024. (thegameawards.com) (gematsu.com) There is still almost nothing public on platforms, release timing, or moment-to-moment gameplay. Gematsu’s December 12, 2024 report said Capcom announced no platforms and no release date, which makes a “we have footage but can’t show it” tease feel less like a launch countdown and more like a controlled signal that internal development is moving. (gematsu.com) That is why the clip got developer-level attention instead of just fan screaming. When a publisher has already confirmed the game, named the director, named the partner studios, and then hints that private footage exists, people in the business start treating silence itself as information. (capcom-games.com) (x.com) For now, the public version of this sequel is still one official announcement page and one carefully rationed tease. But compared with where Okami sat for most of the last 20 years, that is already a huge change: Capcom has revived it, Kamiya is back in the director’s chair, and CLOVERS is building its identity around a game it still will not properly show yet. (capcom-games.com) (gematsu.com)