Difference between revisions of "Katamari Damacy"

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===Good===
 
===Good===
 
* The change in scale is wonderful. Going from picking up thumbtacks to skyscrapers is really interesting.
 
* The change in scale is wonderful. Going from picking up thumbtacks to skyscrapers is really interesting.
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* The huge variety of items to collect is really impressive.
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* The game is extremely quirky, which I love. The art style in interesting, the various things that you collect are strange, the cut-scenes are bizarre; it's just interesting.
  
 
===Bad===
 
===Bad===
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* Rather than have the tutorial gloss over all possible controls in a few seconds, where you're just going to forget them, the game should teach you a new move after each stage so you can learn in steps.
 
* Rather than have the tutorial gloss over all possible controls in a few seconds, where you're just going to forget them, the game should teach you a new move after each stage so you can learn in steps.
 
* The taurus and ursa stages are a good idea, but it's so tedious to avoid the massive amount of matching animals that it becomes a pain in the butt.
 
* The taurus and ursa stages are a good idea, but it's so tedious to avoid the massive amount of matching animals that it becomes a pain in the butt.
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* In the Steam release, achievements are gained simply for completing each level, not for doing anything special in them.
  
 
===Ugly===
 
===Ugly===

Revision as of 22:20, 31 January 2021

Katamari Damacy is a puzzle video game developed and published by Namco on 2004-03-18 for the PlayStation 2. In 2012, it was ported to the PlayStation 3, and, in 2018, it was remastered as Katamri Damacy: Reroll for several more platforms. In the game, you play as the two-centimeter-tall Prince of the Cosmos. The King of the Cosmos inadvertently destroyed the stars and the moon one day, and has tasked you with recreating them. You do this by rolling around a ball called a katamari which has strange properties. Anything smaller than the katamari stick to it, making the katamari bigger, which allows bigger things to stick to it. You begin with a tiny katamari which can only pick up thump tacks and paperclips, but, as it gets bigger, you're able to pick up larger things like shoes, dogs, people, cars, trees, buildings, and, eventually the very ground itself.

Personal

I remember seeing fan art of the Prince and a katamari showing up on a blog that I frequented not too long after the game was released in the USA, but not really knowing what it was. Awhile later, I remember watching my friend play, I believe, We Love Katamari, and thinking it was kind of interesting. When I saw the remastered version for sale on Steam, I bought it. I played it intermittently over the next couple days and beat it on 2021-01-31.

Status

I own the Reroll version on Steam and have beaten it.

Review

Good

  • The change in scale is wonderful. Going from picking up thumbtacks to skyscrapers is really interesting.
  • The huge variety of items to collect is really impressive.
  • The game is extremely quirky, which I love. The art style in interesting, the various things that you collect are strange, the cut-scenes are bizarre; it's just interesting.

Bad

  • I wish there was a single stage where you started at the smallest size and went to the largest size.
  • Rather than have the tutorial gloss over all possible controls in a few seconds, where you're just going to forget them, the game should teach you a new move after each stage so you can learn in steps.
  • The taurus and ursa stages are a good idea, but it's so tedious to avoid the massive amount of matching animals that it becomes a pain in the butt.
  • In the Steam release, achievements are gained simply for completing each level, not for doing anything special in them.

Ugly

  • Nothing.

Media

Box Art

Documentation

Videos

Titles

Language Native Transliteration Translation
Chinese (Simplified) 块魂 Kuài Hún Clump Spirit
English Katamari Damacy
Japanese 塊魂 Katamari Tamashi Clump Spirit

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