We Love Katamari

Originally Posted by (Ck)Vegeta
Just wanted to State my Opinion... I think that PS2 for one is Complete Garbage, No GFX, Online is Terrible, Controller has a Weird feel to it and over all the Design is Really Poor.

As for Katamari here is my Question. Ive watched all the Videos on it before when it was in the first Stages of Development and to me it looks Childish and non Graphical. is it?

Originally Posted by phuzz
Mind you, if you hate the PS2 so much, why bother reading a review of a game that's only on the PS2? :p

Moreover, (Ck)Vegeta why bother commenting on it? :|

or alternatively if you want to slap us around for looking at a PS2 game

Right where'd do u all live then....

Probably will buy this. I barely use my PS2 any more, but it looks like the sort of game that you can relax with , rather than being on edge all the time.

did that just get released over there? because, man, when i saw this, i was like, "why review something so old". ive played throuhg it like 5 times now and got bored with it a month or so back. Its a great game! silly release dates over there

Agreed, Bindi. That's why games like Katamari, Ico, Okami, Psychonauts and so forth are so important I think. They're stand out examples of the developers taking a bit of a chance and time after time they don't get the attention they deserve but in a Tarantino-esque way the ideas and innovations can still end up trickling down more mainstream games. I think its sooo important to big up (did I just say that?) these games.

Also Katamari in particular does bring up the issue of games getting darker and more 'urban' whatever that's meant to mean. I don't like that horseradish stuff being added to every piece of sushi I eat and I don't need Uzi's added to every game I play. I really like the Blue Sky in Games campaign over at UK: Resistance. We can make the sun shine again! :D

this is one of those instant classic sort of games. on the graphics side I would just like to say that it picks a very distinct and unique style and sticks with it, sure it's not photo realism but its not generic grungey buildings and dark alleys and what other video games have panda's dancing?
gameplay side it's a spin on the old rolling marble through maze games, but it's very fresh and doesn't emulate much. also this was a game that everything from me the hardcore fps player down to my friends who never play anything could pick up. My friends and I went through the entire game in 2 player mode and there was never a skill handi-cap and it just spawned sooo much non competitive and relaxing fun.

oh and finally the best cousin was the fatty with king mask and horsey combination, or the tripointed cousin with a mini tripointed cousin on his head

I have a katamari videotape I just watch from time to time... its fun to really get emotionally into the game, yell at it, etc :)

definatly one of my favorite games in a very long time. get a bunch of friends together and take a crazy trip with the katamari. definatly a good time.

Originally Posted by spike
I wonder how the PSP version will turn out.

any eta on this??

Hmm... looks worth renting if nothing else, and I generally hate PS2 games (though in all honesty, I've been getting my FFX/FFX-2 on recently). I doubt we have it though, and the owner just went off to the bahamas or something for two weeks, so no new games till then if we don't :( That's what you get for working at a video store with all of six employees, I guess. But hey, free rentals and I can pick up Tuesday's releases the Friday before they're out (just watched and burned Domino :p)

Looks downright fun, though. Just that stupid pointless humor... you know, that stuff that's almost as funny as watching someone take a kick to the groin. Yeah, nothing beats sadistic humor, but this looks like it comes close.

Originally Posted by Faind
any eta on this??

Been out in Japan for a while now. US version is out mid-March.

Here's a bit of side-story for anyone who's interested. The creator of the game was more or less bullied into working on the sequel: http://www.ferrago.com/story/6862

Also, I wish they'd put the first game on the disc as well, or perhaps done a double-disc "deluxe" set. The prices on the PAL version of We Love Katamari, however, are appalling. The first game sold for US$20. Why do we only get the somewhat half-baked sequel for more than twice that?

Nezuji :)