Author's Notes: This is all based on my experiences of playing games and having people assist you as move along. Sure it's fun to try and complete levels and puzzles by ourselves, but other times, we need to have friends and family to help you out when you get stuck. That's what playing games is all about; bonding with others.
Natsume's Chapter
Two Brothers play Okami
"Oh not again!"
"Oh you were so close!"
Wataru puffed his cheeks up in frustration as he watched his character on the tv screen, a large white wolf covered in red markings, fall into a pool of murky poison. His older brother Natsume had brought an old game system with him as well as a new game that he was probably too young to remember. It was something called Okami. You played as a goddess that had been reincarnated into a wolf and went around purifying the land of Nippon. They didn't make games like this anymore in this day and age. In this modern age, the Playstation 2 would be considered obsolete and useless. How he managed to dig up a treasure like this, no one was sure.
Perhaps he had this system long before Wataru knew of its existence, or maybe he found it recently. Whatever it may be, they're now cooped up in Wataru's room together playing it. They'd just gotten past the first third of the game and were now starting the second third of the story. After defeating the dreaded Orochi ( with some assitance from Natsume of course), Amaterasu, the name of the wolf in this game, now set off to the east to investigate some darkness that was covering the eastern part of Japan. There was a platform that they were supposed to jump up on but no matter how hard they tried, they just couldn't get up on there. Wataru had been spending the last 15 minutes figuring out how to get the timing just right, but nothing was working. Well, that was until Natsume offered to help him with it.
"Here, let me try."
Wataru watched in amazement how he timed his jump with precision and managed to jump onto the platform. How did he do that? Natsume turned to assure him that all it took was practice to do those double jumps in the game. Next, they had to draw the image of the moon in the ocean to lower the water level. This would make accessing the ghost ship more easy. The Ghost ship was admittingly the creepiest level the brothers had ever been in. The music sent chills down their spines and the fact that there were ghosts and demons everywhere did nothing to take the edge off of the creepiness.
Sometimes Wataru wasn't fast enough to get Rao to summon her paper talismons to get rid of the ghosts, and they would wind up being terrifed by the ghosts. There was also another part of the ship they went into where the Spider Queen boss from the first part of the game made a reapperance as a ghost. Only, it was her creepy face that kept zooming into the screen, and Wataru couldn't do a thing to excorise it. This lead to the younger boy to screaming and jumping into his brother's lap when her face took up the entire screen. When she was finally gone from the screen, Natsume managed to calm the other boy down and get him off of his lap.
For the rest of the night, Wataru stayed extra close to Natsume, grabbing on to him anytime he got spooked by something. It had gotten late by the time that they finished exploring the rest of the ghost ship. Natsume had to go to work the next day, so he decided to leave the Asahina complex earlier than expected to get back to his apartment. Wataru didn't want him to go. He rarely got to see him ever since he moved out of the complex. But he knew he couldn't be selfish about this.
"Next time I come over, let's get even further with this game!"
"Yeah! let's play again sometime!"
