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Even my mom loves it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Katamari Damacy was such a surprise. It came out of nowhere and it only has a $20 price tag. It's addictive, simple to pick up and play and completely engaging. You play 'the Prince of the Cosmos' and your father, The King, has destroyed all of the stars in the sky. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to gather up enough junk to make new stars. But, what place in the galaxy has enough junk to make new stars? Answer: Earth, of course! As the prince you roll up junk on the levels and try to build the biggest ball (Katamari) as possible. The control is simple, you only use the two analog joysticks to control the direction of the katamari, rolling up things in relative size to your katamari, as your ball gets bigger, then you can pick up bigger items. In the beginning you pick up small things like thumbtacks and small cookies, by the end you are picking up skyscrapers and islands. It's amazingly fun and you wont wanna stop playing. My own mother has taken my Playstation 2 from me so she could play the game and I can't seem to get it back from her (but I'm working on a plan). Kids from age 5 to 85 can find enjoyment in this little gem, and you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to buy it (Did I mention that it's only $20). So give it a try, you may like it and if not you only spent 20 bucks!
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Total delight!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok - KD is a strange game. You roll a ball around and pick things up. It sounds silly but it is hard to pull yourself away. I am not a game player - but KD makes you experience true joy! There is something so innocent about rolling around and picking up stuff. Also, the music is fabulous! I have actually bought the soundtrack and I listen to it all the time.
Of course - like with anything, you will probably get bored at some point. But you will always look back fondly at those moments of guilty pleasure -- rolling up sushi, cow, people, buildings, and whales. Bliss!

One of the Best Video Games Ever Made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"Katamari Damacy" is one of the best games ever made. It's also the freshest game. Don't let the kiddie theme deter you: this is extremely playable for anyone. The music has very good genre recordings; some of them are accoustic jazz studio recordings in Japanese, but the jazz sound is there, especially in "Gin & Tonic & Red Red Roses," which is a noir-ish 15-minute scat vocal swing track with percussion, piano, double bass, and flute. The game has a two-player mode, which is set in an arena as a competition to see who's better. The one-player mode is the story-driven mode about the King of the Cosmos father of your protagonist who is a little green guy that looks similar to a Teletubby. The objective is to use the two analog sticks to make the character push around a small ball inside a garden or the rooms in a house, or both, into objects normally found in those three-dimensional environments, such as pairs of scissors, mice, golf balls, flowers, paperclips, dining chairs, spoons, anything and everything. The rolling of the ball has a snowball effect, which means the more things your character rolls up into the ball, the larger the ball becomes. There's a big transition moment in the game where, after rolling the ball around the rooms of a house, the character breaks out of the house down the driveway to a farmer's market on the other side of the street where he starts rolling in watermelons until the ball gets even larger and rolls in bicycles, little kids and then adults. The game play is a surreal fantasy, but it all comes together in its finale with an abstract epiphany that the world is a small enough place to understand each other when replacing the unnecessary with the meaningful. The more I played this game, the hungrier I got, and the ending surprised me with an epiphany. It's by Namco who, as you know, is the Japanese company that produced the original Pac-Man arcade game. Since then, it has produced several genre games for Sony's Playstation including the Soul Edge series, Soul Blade and Soul Calibur, the Tekken series, the Ridge Racer/Rage Racer series, and the Ace Combat/Air Combat series, all of which has been prime landmarks in that console's history. This game is so fresh, it struck a blow to me. Strangely, it is one of those Japanese releases that almost didn't make it over to America. When it was brand new, its list price was only $20; most games are $50 upon release. The raving critical success and the "sleeper hit" popularity of this game garnered a sequel, but I haven't played it yet. At any rate, it just may continue on as one of Namco's great series if it maintains the inertia of this original one.

My opinion - best PS2 game for non-gamer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a huge gamer. In fact, my PS2 was largely dormant until I got this game based on the other reviews I saw on Amazon. And much to my delight, the game is incredibly fun and hugely addictive. Rolling the katamari and picking up objects in the game has the effect of changing your view of the world around you (not in any profound manner, mind you, but rather you begin looking at objects around you and assessing how large a katamari you would need to have to pick it up). Other reviews here do a great job of describing the game and what makes it fun and special. I'll just add that the characters, music and gameplay are fun fun fun, original, quirky and truly memorable. Moreover, once I finished the games imbedded in the storyline, I found my self revisiting each star and trying to best my last best score. I get the itch to try my hand again more frequently than I'd like to admit. Even beating your last score by a few centimeters is cause for feelings of immense satisfaction (and not doing so, cause for feelings of aggrevation) unexpected in a video game. This one's a keeper.

Doesn't appeal to everyone...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The moment I played the game I fell in love with it. The music was quirky and refreshing and the gameplay was far from serious. It gave me a real break from other games on the market that have serious/complicated storylines and gamplay.
I wouldn't buy this if you only like games that have a strong plot and goal. This game is really about rolling a ball around just to make it bigger, nothing else.

i do love katamari

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

its a great game. my big brother got it and he said i could play it! its a blast, rolling over stuff and collecting things as big as roller coaster! its awsome. you should get it. its so addictive! i just wish the name wasnt hard to remember! ha ha ha ha

Katamari crazy!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This fun game is completely addictive. Although the levels get increasingly difficult and that is a cause of frustration at times, it never gets old rolling things up from miniscule to mighty. We purchased the second Katamari game, We Love Katamari, and it's even better than the first one. The only negative thing is, the King of the Cosmos is not nice when you fail on a mission and says hurtful things. But as long as you're not thin skinned and don't take it personally, you'll have a great time playing. If you don't have a sense of humor, don't bother playing this game!! If you do, you'll be laughing as you're rolling along, and the theme song will stay with you night and day! (But in a GOOD way!)

great gameplay and music!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. You get to roll around a ball wich may sound boring but its not. Your stupid dad the king of all cosmos desroys all of the stars.So its up to you his pint sized prince to roll up as much stuff as possible. The music is great.The head-to-head (2 player)mode is such fun. You should deffintly get this game. And great cutseanes.

This is your PS2... this is your PS2 on drugs...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've never done acid, or any other drugs. In fact, I get annoyed when people look at something beyond the standard range of creative and their first thought is "I wonder what drugs they were on?" However, after playing this game I think I think I may have to revise my opinions on the matter. Describing this game as "weird" is to do an injustice to the word. When a game contains scenes with a Japanese schoolgirl saying things like, "I feel it! I feel the cosmos!" you know has to be inspired by far too many mushrooms (which, oddly, feature throughout the game in sizes from very small to larger than a building).

The plot, such as it is, is fairly simple: you play the Prince. Your father is the (somewhat dim), King of the Cosmos. One night during a drunken binge he managed to break all the stars in the sky. Now it's your duty to rebuild them!

This rather insane goal of rebuilding stars is accomplished by going down to Earth with what's called a Katamari. You use this to roll over objects that then stick to the Katamari. You might at first only be able to snag paperclips, but before you know it, you'll be rolling up chickens, books, houses, people, mountains, major land masses, entire weather systems and Hindu gods.

Controlling the Katamari is a fairly simple affiar. Those of you who are of a Certain Age will remember playing "Battlezone" in the arcades. Aside from being notable for being one of, if not the, first game to use vector graphics, it's also notable for using two joysticks to control the tank you drive. Driving your Katamari is much the same.

No review of this game would be complete without mention of the award winning soundtrack, which, indeed, gets mentioned in every review I've read so far. It's an odd combonation of J-pop, jazz, swing and other things I can't even begin to describe. Trust me, you'll be humming... or singing... or whatever the heck it is you'd do... the theme music for weeks afterwords.

The game has fairly high replay value and as the controls are so simple, the basics are easily mastered after only a few minutes. A lack of any sort of violence (aside from rolling up chickens, people, houses, etc), and the bright, colorful graphics makes it acceptable to people of pretty much any age. It's attractive price point, only $20 brand new and available used for about $15, make it even more worthwhile.

All in all, it's a fine example of the same sort of Japanese whimsy that leads to games like Mister Mosquito, Super Monkey Ball and Frolf (all you need to know is that it combines frogs... and golf...). A fine addition to any PS2 collection. Indeed, your collection is bare without it.

Interesting note: the game was never really a hit in Japan, but it, and it's two sequels ("We (Heart) Katamri" for the PS2 and "Me and My Katamari" for the PSP), have been very popular in the USA. What exactly does this say about us as a nation?

Oh, well, it matters not. The sky needs me!

Weird, funky, and oh so much fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Undoubtedly one of the weirdest and most insanely fun games to ever grace the PS2, Namco's original Katamari Damacy is a game you just have to play to believe. You play an interstellar prince, and it's up to you to replace all the stars in the sky. To do this, you use your Katamari to collect all kinds of items on Earth, and roll it around to do so. You start off picking up small items, like screws and small candies, and gradually work your way up to collecting bigger (and bigger) items. Like I said, you have to play it to believe it. You control your Katamari by using both of the analog sticks to move and roll around. While this takes some time to learn and get used to (there is a helpful tutorial before the game starts), once you get it down you'll find it hard to put the controler down. Katamari Damacy is insanely fun and undeniably charming with its interesting approach in the graphics department, and some pretty funny dialogue from the King of the Cosmos. Since the release of Katamari Damacy on our shores, some new installments have been released, but if you've never experienced the sheer joy that is Katamari, Katamari Damacy is a perfect place to start.

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