Okami in 2:28:30 - New Game Any% Speedrun [Former World Record] @Auride

Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

This time was beaten on Nov 13, 2019 by me (youtu.be/OHmuhVEitUY)

The world's first sub-2:30 run in Okami NG! I'm really happy I finally got this time, but man was this run crazy. Had a pretty bad start, managed to gradually pull things back up to City Checkpoint, then floundered CC Skip for a fair bit. Gradually pulled back even more time, with the first Fire Tab Skip being insanely fast considering I messed up the dash storage into the elevator.

From there on, basically everything was good or great, except for the second Tab Skip where I lost a bunch of time, and the Oni Island entry jump which I missed a few times. The end of this run was really good and it'll be tough to improve on.

This run beats the previous wr by me (2h 31m 11s youtu.be/sRunAoivWCI) by 2m 41s. Most of that timesave comes from a cleaner late game.

Just after this run, I got accepted to an online speedrunning charity marathon called Midfall Speedball (horaro.org/mfsb2019/schedule). There's a chance I'll try routing out NG All Brushes before then, but I'll definitely have to do some no reset runs to practice for the marathon regardless.

Thank you everyone who has followed me on this journey so far!

Splits: splits.io/4rz8
Leaderboard: speedrun.com/Okami/full_game#NG_Any
Okami Speedrunning Discord: discord.gg/AQNKmMu
Watch my streams live: twitch.tv/loveauride

Okami in 2:28:30 - New Game Any% Speedrun [Former World Record]

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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