Okami / Praise and upgrades

Okami praise and upgrades: health, ink and exploration priorities

Spend restoration rewards on the divine attributes that help your current route.

Edition covered

Okami’s original adventure and core mechanics. All pictures are explicitly from Capcom’s Okami HD PC remaster; they are not captures from the 2006 PlayStation 2 release. Button inputs vary by platform.

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Praise and upgrades

Maximum health

Solar Energy

When useful: Repeated damage is ending fights.

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Brush capacity

Ink Pot

When useful: Frequent techniques drain the gauge.

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Recovery reserve

Astral Pouch

When useful: Extra insurance during unfamiliar routes.

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Money capacity

Yen purse

When useful: Earnings are approaching the limit.

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Quick notes

Earn Praise by restoring and helping. Restoring nature, feeding animals and helping people produces Praise.
Improve the attribute that limits progress. Solar Energy supports survival, ink supports repeated brush use, the Astral Pouch provides recovery potential, and the purse expands money capacity.
Carry suitable animal feed. Different animals prefer different food.
Keep money and Praise separate. Praise upgrades divine attributes, while yen buys goods and training.

Improve the attribute that limits progress

Praise activities
Activity	Preparation	Useful habit
Restore plants	Correct brush technique	Check newly cleansed surroundings
Feed animals	Suitable feed	Notice wildlife along the route
Help townspeople	Read the request	Return after a relevant story event
Restore cursed areas	Complete the local objective	Explore the renewed paths afterward

Useful tip

Praise upgrades divine attributes, while yen buys goods and training.

References

Guide references
Reference	Website
Okami publisher/storefront	store.steampowered.com
Capcom: Okami manual	static.capcom.com
Okami HD campaign and mechanics reference	gamefaqs.gamespot.com