Katamari Damacy

If you haven't heard of Katamari Damacy, there are a few things you need to know about it:

-Japan has a lot of shrooms
-The intro of this game has a lot of shrooms

Therefore we can figure out that this game was created under the influence of shrooms, possibly. I'm just being mean here, for all we know it could be made by people on LSD, but you don't see a lot of that in the intro, so I'm going with shrooms.

Aside from all of the shrooms, Katamari Damacy's plot works a lot like this. You are the Prince of All Cosmos. You're father being the KING of All Cosmos goes and breaks all the stars in the universe. So he sends you to go to Earth and roll stuff into a ball so that they can form beautiful stars. What's kind of ironic is he's making the stars for the people on Earth yet you can pick up people with your Katamari (The ball in which you make stars with) and THEY become part of stars. I wonder what they do up there...

Whoa, tangent.



In this game you can roll up ANYTHING. From pots to continents, We're not kidding when we say everything.
This game works on diameter measurements and stuff. Each time you have to make a different star, your asshat of a father says that you should make it a certain amount of cm or m and then he goes away to watch you roll up crap. You also have a time limit, so it isn't just never ending collecting.

The controls of this game are simple, but still different than other games. Though it doesn't effect gameplay, to move you have to move both analog sticks in the direction you want to go, so there's some dual analog stick action going on.



The graphics are pretty good, but if you can see the legs of the person in the above picture you can see they kind of look like some kind of Mega Bloks Doll. They did this on purpose, or maybe the shrooms kicked in again. Either way, even with the blocky living organisms, it still works better as you won't have a lot of detailing to slow you down and crap.

The music in this game is either some guy beatboxing (Beginning of the game) and a lot of JPop. Now if you're thinking "Oh dear GOD J POP?" then you can just shut up and let me finish. Usually JPop sucks, and I mean it sucks, but they've specially picked JPop that goes with each level perfectly and is very catchy, especially when rolling up people or shrooms. The sound is pretty simple, when you pick up stuff there's a sort of click sound and it shows what you've just picked up. As well when you try picking up people (if your katamari is big enough, as the things you can pick up are based on the size of your katamari) they fly away and flail around while screaming in a high pitched voice. It makes you feel like an evil dictator in some weird way, what with hight pitched screaming and you rolling them into a large sphere.



By the way if you're wondering what the king of all cosmos looks like, behold. Yes his head is indeed in the shape of a Ho-Ho, deal with it.

Overall this game gets a perfect. Even if it is crazy Japanese weirdness straight from the shrooms itself, it's still a great game to own and play. It should be pretty cheap in America too, when it came out it was about $30 or less. Go pick it up cause it rocks.

Seriously what happens to those people.

5 star(s) out of 5

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