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Absolutely Wonderful Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Katamari Damacy is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly stale gaming world. It is a title you will likely never get tired of, and it's odd but simple gameplay draws you back again and again. The music in the background is especially catchy and fun to listen to, and makes me smile whenever I hear it. The entire game experience is not unlike the pleasant feelings you experience after hours of prolonged zen meditation, and I would recommend the game to anyone looking for something new. The game's only flaw is that it is a little short; I wish it were twice or three times as long as it is.

Like nothing I've ever played before... A true PS2 gem!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In Katamari Damacy, the drunken King of All Cosmos accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky... Even the Moon! So like the unreliable father he is, he sends his pint-sized son, the Prince of All Cosmos, to replace all the stars in the sky. How you ask? Why, by rolling up everyone and everything on Earth into a colossal katamari ball which the King will transform into a star, of course!
Katamari Damacy is a simple, yet extraordinarily fun game with unique graphics, a wacky sense of humor, and a fantastic soundtrack! Buy this game while you still can!

Fun for the Whole Family!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Katamari Damacy is fun and challenging for kids and adults. The tasks vary from meeting specific content goals to speed challenges to maximum size tests. Some tasks will be a favorite for the younger players and others will test the skills even the most accomplished game-playing adults. The concept is easy enough for a 4 year old to understand, but still engaging (almost addictive) for adults. Roll, roll, roll!

The ongoing Wowzer is happening right Now

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is game is my favorite ever, along with FFX. this game is a masterpiece. Hard to get into too, IMO, but if you like this type of humor, quirkyness and gameplay, you will agree with this review. and the best part. maybe it has the best replay value ever on a game.

Great fun, one warning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is unique. You are the prince to a very quirky king, who assigns you the task of rolling a ball around in different levels. If you hit something smaller than yourself, it sticks, and you grow larger. You start out picking up thumbtacks and bottlecaps and end up picking up people, cars, then trees and finally entire buildings and islands. If you hit something too large it knocks you back. It is particularly fun to go to an area where you were getting kicked around, and come back larger and absorb everything.

Several side stories and small videos will leave you saying..."what was that about?" But it is all fun and the music is great.

One warning - unlike almost every other game nowadays (Spyro, Mario, Call of Duty, etc etc etc.) You "win" this game very quickly - in 6 or 7 hours of gameplay, if you are good. It is over too quickly.

Katamarii!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is just FUN!!

and something anyone can play...you get into it and just keep going...

it's quirky and unique and something my daughter and I enjoyed playing together or just watching each other play through...

Wacky, weird, and worth it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In some ways, this game defies description. The gist of the storyline - your father, the King of the Cosmos, got a little drunk or crazy or something and "accidentally" destroyed all the stars. So now it's your responsibility to put the stars back in the sky. Which you do, through a series of progressively difficult levels and challenges involving collecting items on earth.

At the start of each level, you, the prince, are placed behind an empty "katamari." This is a ball-like thing that you must roll around. As you roll around, objects will stick to you, which will increase the size of the katamari. The goal of each level is to get the katamari to a certain size. The size of the objects you can pick up is relative to the size the katamari currently is - the bigger you get your katamari, the bigger the objects that you can pick up. The levels are timed, so you can't just waste time. When your katamari gets to the goal size, your dad turns it into a star.

Each level is set in a particular venue - inside a house, in a neighborhood, in a park, etc. When you get to certain "mini-goals," the camera angle changes to reflect the new size of the katamari. All of a sudden you can see objects you couldn't before, simply because you were too small.

There are also a series of "challenge" levels, which ask you to do certain things - pick up certain kinds of items, collect sets of things, etc. These challenges help you build the constellations. Most of these are fairly self-explanatory - to build Cancer, you pick up crabs, to build Cygnus, you pick up swans, etc.

The levels are interspersed by movie clips of a family wondering where the stars went. The movie bits are creepy in a way, but very amusing.

The soundtrack to this game is funny. Most of it is in Japanese, but it's so catchy it doesn't matter.

There is a two-player mode, where you compete against a friend to try to get the biggest katamari, but this rapidly gets boring, because the level is essentially the same over and over and once you get the hang of how to master it, there's not much challenge in it.

The controls on this game are surprisingly easy. You control your katamari with the left and right analog sticks, simply by pushing both of them in the direction you want to go. There are a few specialized moves you can do with the sticks, but basically that's it. No buttons, no directional pad, just the analog sticks.

Half of the fun of the game is in the options. There are all kinds of ways to view the number and kind of items you have picked up, as well as see the stars and constellations you have created. This is where the long-term playing power of the game comes from - even after you beat all the levels, there are always items you've missed, and you can always make your stars bigger.

Supposedly there is a sequel coming. I'm totally pre-ordering it. This game is completely unique.

I feel it--I feel the cosmos

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't get the theme song out of my head. The music is so great. The story is so wierd: My father, the king, knocked all the stars out of the sky, and so I have to roll everything on earth up into a ball so that he can replace them.
It really is fun rolling up stuff into a ball. You literally can roll up everything--starting with thumbtacks, on to golf balls, then telephones, then cats, then bicycles and cows, onto buildings and even islands. Very cool. It is a reason to go on living.

Odd Concept - Great Delivery

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's easy to imagine what was going on in the designer's head: Games today all follow trends. If you want to be a success, you have to play follow the leader, don't stray from the pack. Thankfully he got fed up and came up with a brilliantly inspired puzzle/strategy/...whatever. This game is beyond definition, seriously. What other game stars the diminutive Prince of the Cosmos, constantly set upon tasks to create heavenly bodies by rolling a sticky ball to gather larger and larger objects, to meet a mass/width requirement by the King of the Cosmos, after he destroyed everything in the night sky in either a nightmare or a fit of boredom? I cannot name another. The game: Excellent. You use the analog sticks to roll a sticky ball, grabbing - progressively - a thumbtack to a large chunk of land. You may get a tad dizzy from playing after a few hours, since the camera does stay at a size-dictated length. From the campy cut scenes to the background music, this game is a well-deserved break from the ordinary.

awsome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game so much. It is a ton of fun to play with lots of fun worlds to remake the stars.

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