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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
I love Katamari Damacy!
For those not in the know, Katamari Damacy is a quirky Japanese game by Namco (who are apparently famous for coming up with this sort of nonsense) in which you play a tiny green alien-ish guy named Prince of All Cosmos who rolls around this big ball called a katamari.
Basically the wacky backstory is this: One day, your father, the King of All Cosmos, gets drunk and accidentally destroys all the stars in the universe. Morning afterwards, he wakes up and realizes what's happened, and that people wouldn't be too happy to find out that all their stars are missing, so he sends his son (you) down to Earth to roll up stuff on the katamari so he can launch them into space to make new stars. Why doesn't he go himself? I don't know, but the king being really mean to his son probably has something to do with it.
It's a very simple game, each stage you're supposed to roll the katamari to a certain size. There are also some special levels where you have to roll up certain things, like crabs, eggs, or twins (pairs of everything). Presents are scattered on Earth as well, and if you find them then you can make the Prince wear it afterwards.
However, I think it's the game's sense of scale, as well as physics that make the game so much fun to play. You start out with a very small katamari, maybe the size of a beachball, and it grows bigger and bigger the more things you roll onto it. You'll be rolling up houses, ships and trees before you know it. When that happens, you'll be looking at the screen and going "HOLY SHIT!!" at the change in your surroundings. And when you roll up oddly shaped items like pencils and arrows that stick out at an angle of the katamari, the way the ball rolls will actually correspond to that, and it'd be a slower, bumpier ride until it evens out.
So anyway, I had in my hands the sequel to this game. I played it yesterday, and wow is it fun. It hasn't changed much from the original, sure, but it has added in a few new features. Like a 2 player mode where each player controls one side of the katamari. New levels that involve rolling the katamari around underwater and in space. And you find out why the King of All Cosmos is such a meanie to his son. Not sure what else is new, as I haven't spent too much time on it yet. Not to mention that the copy I have is in Japanese and I don't understand a word.
But what I would really really like to say about this game is....
I LOVE KATAMARI DAMACY!!
Basically the wacky backstory is this: One day, your father, the King of All Cosmos, gets drunk and accidentally destroys all the stars in the universe. Morning afterwards, he wakes up and realizes what's happened, and that people wouldn't be too happy to find out that all their stars are missing, so he sends his son (you) down to Earth to roll up stuff on the katamari so he can launch them into space to make new stars. Why doesn't he go himself? I don't know, but the king being really mean to his son probably has something to do with it.
It's a very simple game, each stage you're supposed to roll the katamari to a certain size. There are also some special levels where you have to roll up certain things, like crabs, eggs, or twins (pairs of everything). Presents are scattered on Earth as well, and if you find them then you can make the Prince wear it afterwards.
However, I think it's the game's sense of scale, as well as physics that make the game so much fun to play. You start out with a very small katamari, maybe the size of a beachball, and it grows bigger and bigger the more things you roll onto it. You'll be rolling up houses, ships and trees before you know it. When that happens, you'll be looking at the screen and going "HOLY SHIT!!" at the change in your surroundings. And when you roll up oddly shaped items like pencils and arrows that stick out at an angle of the katamari, the way the ball rolls will actually correspond to that, and it'd be a slower, bumpier ride until it evens out.
So anyway, I had in my hands the sequel to this game. I played it yesterday, and wow is it fun. It hasn't changed much from the original, sure, but it has added in a few new features. Like a 2 player mode where each player controls one side of the katamari. New levels that involve rolling the katamari around underwater and in space. And you find out why the King of All Cosmos is such a meanie to his son. Not sure what else is new, as I haven't spent too much time on it yet. Not to mention that the copy I have is in Japanese and I don't understand a word.
But what I would really really like to say about this game is....
I LOVE KATAMARI DAMACY!!
Published by: whiterabbit # 7/19/2005 04:30:00 pm 