City Checkpoint through Imperial Palace - Part 5 - Okami New Game Any% Beginners' Route Walkthrough @Auride

Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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UPDATES:
5:15 You should now bloom the Ryoshima Sapling using the camera adventure demonstrated in this video: youtu.be/UzCXMHaNIgc. This saves about 20s and is pretty easy.

This is part of an unscripted video walkthrough of my beginners' route for the Okami NG any% speedrun. This is meant to serve as a companion to the text guide available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1NtUcVU_fQW6sYGkP_HHEKZEYmjCRQW97jTG9-9r18xo/edit?usp=sharing.

Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqC5BKx5eR95mzsPwkwNf-MvKgoP0gcGN

This video covers these segments:
0:00 Travelling to City Checkpoint
2:27 City Checkpoint
4:36 Ryoshima Coast
6:57 Ryoshima Dojo Clip
11:03 Ubume Skip
14:07 Enter Sei-an
14:47 Sei-an Bridge Skip
18:12 Rao Skip
22:24 Sunken Ship Clip
31:15 More in-depth explanation of Rao Skip
33:39 Enter Imperial Palace
37:14 Get Veil of Mist
42:16 Fight Blight

LINKS:
My Twitter: twitter.com/LoveAuride
Okami Speedrunning Discord: discord.gg/AQNKmMu
Leaderboard: speedrun.com/Okami/full_game#NG_Any

City Checkpoint through Imperial Palace - Part 5 - Okami New Game Any% Beginners Route Walkthrough

$Okami Speedrunning - Bloom Ryo Brush Adventure This trick saves about 20 seconds in NG, and probably even more time in NG+. This is an alternate method of delivering water via Waterspout to the pool that surrounds the small Guardian Sapling. The previous method involved entering the pond area via either Cherry Bomb or KTs, then skipping the first empty pond by angling the camera to WS straight from the bottom pond to the second empty pond, then doing the final pond normally. This method involves using a Brush Adventure (see https://okami.speedruns.wiki/Brush_Adventure) to directly WS from the bottom to the top. The method is pretty intuitive and not that precise, so you should just watch the video to understand. The only weird thing is the brush floor clip we start with, which seems to usually require an extra unbrush compared to some other locations. Sometimes it works normally though, and Im not sure the why. It only makes a fraction of a second difference, though. As you can see in the video, if you hit more than one pond with your WS (which is possible to avoid, but not really necessary), you briefly gain control of Ammy during the cutscene of the sapling growing. This cutscene isnt skippable so it makes little difference, but it does look kind of cool. Be aware that you can lose time here by pausing or using the brush, which pauses the cutscene. You can cause the game to crash by using some Brush powers during the cutscene, although Im not sure exactly what combination would cause it. If you hit the Guardian fight trigger before losing control (which is pretty hard to do due to the small window to act), then this happens: https://youtu.be/D_U_g6zYU4E. The graphics get this weird dark shading effect, and if you Bloom the sapling the game softlocks. Not recommended, obviously. Okami Speedrunning Discord: https://discord.gg/AQNKmMu Okami Speedrunning Wiki: https://okami.speedruns.wiki/Main_Page Leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/Okami My Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoveAuride My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/loveauride$

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