Friday, February 25, 2005
Katamari Damacy
Ever play a game so messed up, so silly, so absurd, yet so so addictive that you can't stop playing even after you beat it? Well Katamari Damacy is that game.
If you don't know Japanese (well neither do I really), Katamari is basically Japanese for "clump." You basic goal is to restore the stars (and the moon) to the sky after your father, The King of the Cosmos, went on a bender and destroyed them all. As his miniscule son, The Prince of the Cosmos, you use your Katamari ball to roll up matter on Earth to eventually make a star. You start rolling up small things like ants, pins, nail polish, etc but will eventually graduate to cats, dogs, people, cars, buildings, clouds, islands, and even the gods themselves. Yes this game is messed up.
Despite the weirdness the game exudes, Namco brought this game to the US and I thank them for it. The US needs these kinds of game in a market that is continuously becoming very similair, particularily on these shores. Katamari Damacy had a fairly good showing for a game of this type and hopefully it may be impetus for other companies to bring their "weird" or niche games to us.
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If you don't know Japanese (well neither do I really), Katamari is basically Japanese for "clump." You basic goal is to restore the stars (and the moon) to the sky after your father, The King of the Cosmos, went on a bender and destroyed them all. As his miniscule son, The Prince of the Cosmos, you use your Katamari ball to roll up matter on Earth to eventually make a star. You start rolling up small things like ants, pins, nail polish, etc but will eventually graduate to cats, dogs, people, cars, buildings, clouds, islands, and even the gods themselves. Yes this game is messed up.
Despite the weirdness the game exudes, Namco brought this game to the US and I thank them for it. The US needs these kinds of game in a market that is continuously becoming very similair, particularily on these shores. Katamari Damacy had a fairly good showing for a game of this type and hopefully it may be impetus for other companies to bring their "weird" or niche games to us.
