To add to that list Bomber, though not sure if this was mentioned already...if you draw a "star" over enemies (draw an X and then a vertical line through the center) and you can cause icicles to rain down on enemies and freeze them. I guess the only prerquisite is that you have the ice power, since I never officially learned that skill anywhere.

Yeah I noticed that too. I didn't really include it because it was technically not hidden, but you are just uninformed of it unless you look at your scroll techniques in your stat menu. The only reason I ever found out about that technique in the first place was because of Ninetails :(. I don't understand why they don't explain it? It's a pretty sweet move.
Yeah, that whole BlockHead thing would have been impossible (for me, anyways) if it wasn't for my phone. Are the Resurrection Beads the last rosary weapon? If they are, then they can be found in two places...
ALSO. I can’t believe I forgot these two hidden water techniques –

Edit:

Hey! Power Slash x3! From GameSpot (I would have never found this...)

Hey beat ninetales yesterday shes the way all bosses should be!

XD, I used my camera for the same purpose!

Double Post:
Well, I finally beat it. The part where

AHHHH. At 59 hours, I have officially just completed the game :(. I hate those feelings you get when you beat a game that you’ve been playing for so long and have been enjoying so much. I got all the stray beads and unlockable extras, and… I don’t want to put the game back on the shelf to gather dust now…but that’s sadly what’s probably going to happen…

And now I want to know one thing...WHERE IS MY FUCKING OKAMI 2.

I'm already beginning my new game+. I haven't collected even half of the stray beads, and I still need to learn some techs.

I can imagine replaying this game once a year or so, just to relive it.

Started my new game + a few days ago and I'm really enjoying it. I'm glad they let you skip through most of the cutscenes you've already seen...I've just been watching the ones about Waka and stuff to catch a few things. Just beat Blight in Sei-An City at about 7 hours in so things are going pretty quickly. Still, I've already discovered a lot of things I've never seen before including two of the secret brush techniques and that secret place above Sei An....love this game =)

Quick question for those of you who beat the game already. I've just recently acquired the final Divine Instrument -- the Tundra Beads -- and between that and the Solar Flare, I don't have enough Gold Dust to upgrade them both.

Is it possible to obtain all the necessary Gold Dust on the first playthrough? If so, what'd I miss? I completed all the revenge lists and bought all that I could from the merchants, unless there's one merchant I missed.

Ya know...that's a good question. I was missing one gold dust as well...

YOU GAVE ME REASON TO PLAY IT AGAIN.

I have to say though - once I got the glaives, I never used any other type of weapon again - especially the beads. Am I just a sword whore?

I always used the beads more than the swords, except for the very last sword, which I mainly used on the final boss. Beads are nice because they hit so quickly, and from far away, and also seem to have a "holding" effect.

After taking like a month long break from Okami, devoting my time soley to VP2, I'm back with Okami. Albeit only for tonight, it'll start to collect dust again until FFXII is beaten. I'm glad I'm not a video game.

I'm a sword whore too, really. Although, when I looked at the damage chart for each weapon, the Solar Flare reflector is more powerful without an upgrade than the Thunder Edge glaive with an upgrade. So I switched, but kept the Thunder Edge as a sub-weapon. That uppercut pwns n00bs.

Just got the game recently and wow it's beauty in motion.
I can't wait to play thru it.

I finally got all of the stray beads. Jesus God, that battle with the three nagi in the spider pit in Kamui was hell! Especially when all three of them would summon fire swords at the same time! I had 4 astral pouches going in and ended up using 10 of my 13 Golden Peaches! The battle with the waka clones and Evil Rao clones was stupid too.

But it was worth it, because now I have all of the stray beads, and with it,

I might play through just one more time. This time, there will be no worries, just a nice speed run, with no chance of ever dying.

So I just got the sound track. Holy. Shit. Is it long.

I go into it thinking no fucking way was their that much music in the game, yet every song I listen to, I totally recognize. It's bringing back all of these memories from the game, and it's bugging the hell out of me. The game is done, but I don't want it to be.

WHERE IS MY FUCKING OKAMI 2.

Also, am I the only one who totally didn't even realize how awesome the dungeon music was in the Ezu Fuji shrine? It fit the setting perfectly. Everything is so...mechanical. Clockworks and gears and shit. Awesome.

Blue Bomber -- could you please upload that to YSI or Megaupload or SOMEWHEREZ. I would like, rate you a 5 and stuff.

HOLY SHIT A 5!!! I'll get right to work on it. Rapidshare ok? I might have to break it into multiple files that are under 100 mb. The thing has over 200 tracks, and roughly 5-6 hours of straight music...

Eh...dang and I just started X_X

oh well

cd 1 http://www.sendspace.com/file/mkevmw

cd 2 http://www.sendspace.com/file/d0eqhd

cd 3 http://www.sendspace.com/file/3g2ruo

cd 4 http://www.sendspace.com/file/04r8v5

Hey - if you want it that's cool by me. THEN WE CAN HAVE 2 SOURCES WOW.

My internet connection is INCREDIBLY slow right now, and is taking a while to upload everything. Probably won't be done till morning.

Heh, s'cool. Gave you a 5, and grabbing CD 1. :D Thanks val.

P.S. I just got solar flare its THE BEST WEAPON EVER!!!!!!!!!

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Ok its fixed.

You can get the soundtrack at Shadowhaxor.net (You just have to register there). The speeds are better too... (I got 80 ~ 100 kb/s using Flashget).

OKAMI OST -

Okami OST - Disc 1 (1 of 2) - 45.8 MB
Okami OST - Disc 1 (2 of 2) - 58.3 MB
Okami OST - Disc 2 - 98.1 MB
Okami OST - Disc 3 (1 of 2) - 57.6 MB
Okami OST - Disc 3 (2 of 2) - 48.4 MB
Okami OST - Disc 4 (1 of 2) - 49.6 MB
Okami OST - Disc 4 (2 of 2) - 51.9 MB
Okami OST - Disc 5 - 46.4 MB

Yeah, so I'm not very good at this. Even when I tried to compress them down to .rar files, they didn't compress that much, and some of the discs are split into 2 parts so I could keep it under 100 mb. I know, I suck...BUT IT'S A HUGE ASS OST. LIKE, 5 DISC'S HUGE.