The Earth has many things!
Oct. 26th, 2004 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI don't usually rec games (eh, unless you count all my FFXI posts a rec), but for Katamari Damarcy I'll make an exception. Never have I giggled so much at a game... but then, never before have I met a bouncing bundle of insane joy packaged up as a game!
Recall the insanity found in my Japanese candy reviews? That whole "What the hell were they thinking?" element? Take that, add bright colors, crazy Japanese music, and a lot of rainbows, and you get Katamari Damarcy.
The game's storyline is... unusual. One day your father, the king of the cosmos, broke every star in the sky. Why? Why not! He's the king of the cosmos, so he can do whatever the heck he wants! And he was bored (or drunk), so he broke all the stars. But people moaned and whined and complained, so eventually he set you, the prince of the cosmos, to fix things. He sets you to the task of making new stars! How? By going to Earth and rolling up random items into balls (katamaris) big enough to become stars! What sort of objects? Name a noun and you'll likely roll it up in this game! Cookies, thumb tacks, crabs, memos, cherries, arrows, nails, mice... anything! And the bigger your katamari gets, the bigger the things you can roll up! Cats! People in cars! And (if the graphic on the box is to be believed) eventually things like airplanes and tour busses and sports stadiums!
Does that sound crazy? It is! Oh how it is! Your relationship with your father is really amusing (he likes to insult you. A lot.), and you're so little and cute! And pushing big balls of stuff is so funny and oddly fun!
You can see videos of the game here. I dare you to watch the opening movie ("Cosmic Intro", lower right corner) and not be highly scared and totally amused!
Screenshots here.
The game is really cheap (only $20), but the problem is that it's really hard to get hold of a copy. I got mine from Gamestop, and it looks like they still have copies. If you have a PS2 already, this will be the best $20 you've spent in a long, long time.
Recall the insanity found in my Japanese candy reviews? That whole "What the hell were they thinking?" element? Take that, add bright colors, crazy Japanese music, and a lot of rainbows, and you get Katamari Damarcy.
The game's storyline is... unusual. One day your father, the king of the cosmos, broke every star in the sky. Why? Why not! He's the king of the cosmos, so he can do whatever the heck he wants! And he was bored (or drunk), so he broke all the stars. But people moaned and whined and complained, so eventually he set you, the prince of the cosmos, to fix things. He sets you to the task of making new stars! How? By going to Earth and rolling up random items into balls (katamaris) big enough to become stars! What sort of objects? Name a noun and you'll likely roll it up in this game! Cookies, thumb tacks, crabs, memos, cherries, arrows, nails, mice... anything! And the bigger your katamari gets, the bigger the things you can roll up! Cats! People in cars! And (if the graphic on the box is to be believed) eventually things like airplanes and tour busses and sports stadiums!
Does that sound crazy? It is! Oh how it is! Your relationship with your father is really amusing (he likes to insult you. A lot.), and you're so little and cute! And pushing big balls of stuff is so funny and oddly fun!
You can see videos of the game here. I dare you to watch the opening movie ("Cosmic Intro", lower right corner) and not be highly scared and totally amused!
Screenshots here.
The game is really cheap (only $20), but the problem is that it's really hard to get hold of a copy. I got mine from Gamestop, and it looks like they still have copies. If you have a PS2 already, this will be the best $20 you've spent in a long, long time.
