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Katamari Dominates

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps one of the most eccentric video games I've ever played, this game deviates from the current trends of RPGs, fighter and sports games available in today's market. With an absurd plot-line (The King, in a drunken rage, destroyed all the stars. As his pint-sized prince, you must go to Earth for the collection of random objects and living beings into balls to place into space as the new stars/constellations) and wonderfully fun music, this game is sure to draw in gamers of all ages.

Amazon is overpricing, but it's still worth it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the weirdest but greatest game around.

Love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I normally like more violent games like Socom 2, Ace Combat 5. However, something about this game just keeps me playing. I got Ghost Recon 2 at the same time as this, and I have been playing this much more.

Very strange & adictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be the oddest game I have ever played. I wanted to just rent it to try it out, but unfortunately none of the blockbusters in a 15 mile radius of my house carried it so I figured I might as well just buy it for the low low price of $20, why not? It was worth the twenty beans. I'm a weird guy so I enjoy weird games and this one is f-ing strange. You roll a ball (katamari) around picking up stuff to create stars or constelations that need to be replaced after your ambiguously gay father, the king of the cosmos, got wasted and destroyed. The game play is very simplistic as you never have to press a button, unless you want to jump, which I have yet to do. The game is really short which kinda sucks, but I imagine that to beat it completely is basically impossible. There are levels when you need to find a certain ammount of one particular thing and try as I might, I can only get 70-90% of said thing. And the king is a real dick as he says stuff like, "Mystery? The only mystery here is how you managed to find so little!" Which brings me to my next point: the dialogue, like the entire concept of the game, is really strange. As you go through the game, there is some kind of a stupid story going on in which nothing happens. The father of some japanese family is supposed to go into space, but at the end of the game, his flight gets canceled (sorry if I just spoiled something) but that has absolutely nothing to do with anything and I'm not sure why the makers threw that "story" in there. But I digress, this game is really entertaining. I find something soothing in rolling over entire cities and school children so that I may burn them and make them into a star. And the screams, oh how they make the game just that much more enjoyable. I suggest you buy this game, though you can definitely beat it in a night if you can find some place where you can rent it. Give it a shot but this is an either love it or hate it type of game.

WORTH LOOKING FOR

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Easy, fun, and addictive.
And the soundtrack is like nothing you've heard before.
The most entertainment you'll ever get for under $20. Go out and find this game!

An unexpected treasure, straight from the discount bin

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Are you looking for a great PS2 game for under $25, with very simple controls, that's fun right from the start and which you can play whether you have ten minutes or an entire weekend to kill? If so, then read no farther, Katamari Damacy will not disappoint you.

The premise is simple: roll your Katamari (picture a cantaloupe-sized bumble ball which attracts items smaller than itself, much like a magnet) around the various game locales, creating a rolling pile of "stuff" which grows with each object you roll over and pick up, attracting larger and larger objects as it grows. Picture rolling a snowball through fresh powder, as if you were making the bottom part of a snowman and you're on the right track. You start out collecting thumbtacks and nine-volt batteries, but if you play long enough, you just might find yourself picking up cars, boats, houses, you name it.

I will leave it to the charmingly and entertainingly bizarre, very-Japanese storyline to explain WHY you're doing this. As usual, you're cleaning up someone else's mess; but you'll get to do it to a catchy and infectious soundtrack.

Sound odd? It is; pleasantly so. Sound easy? In theory it's very easy and in practice it runs the gamut from easy to hard; but it's always fun.

Between my wife and I, we can only think of one complaint, and it's one we share. At times, the camera angles chosen by the game can either partially or completely obscure both the player AND the surrounding gameboard. At its least annoying, this is a nuisance which the game's controls allow you to fix. At its most annoying, you can get 'stuck' where you cannot move and cannot adjust the camera angle, and so are unable to complete the level and must try again. This minor flaw doesn't detract from the enjoyability of the game, as re-trying levels to beat your own scores and collect new items is half the fun.

Stoners, your game has arrived!....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

...in the form of Katamari Damacy! Don't worry, everyone else who enjoys games will probably enjoy this, but it's REALLY weird! This game has a story about the King of Cosmos or something. But you probably aren't playing this game for the story! The reason to play this game is for (DUH) the gameplay. The gameplay is very simple, fun, and original. You start out with this little ball and roll it around to collect stuff (I think to make it into a star?). You start out collecting little things, such as people, move up to bigger things, such as cars, and keep collecting bigger stuff until you collect skyscrapers! Yeah, I know the gameplay sounds pretty boring and repetitive, but it actually isn't. This game seriously has some of the most original gameplay I've seen in a while. It is really fun, and when you collect people into your ball, they scream and wiggle! Oh yeah, this game has some good physics too (not really in a realistic way). When you collect something, it will still keep its shape, and living things will wiggle around. The graphics aren't great, but able. Again, not playing the game for the graphics, but they are simple and weird in their own fun little way (kinda like the game). The story may be weird (trust me, see the ending) but is still pretty cool and good (better than half the crap I've been seeing lately). The sound in the game is also good. Some people say the music is crap, but I actually liked it. I thought it was very fun and quirky, and it was fun to hear an original soundtrack to a game lately (I'm getting kind of tired of all the licensed soundtracks).

Graphics: 7/10-cartoony, Japanese, fun! match the game's feel
Sound/Music: 8/10-very cool, original
Control/Gameplay: 9/10-simple to get into,not repetitive-GREAT

Overall: This game is one the most original and weird games I've played in a while. The graphics, sound, and gameplay are all great. You have to admire the Japanese-when they wanna make a weird game, they don't hold back! This game is the most original game of the year, and is the biggest surprise of 2004. This game is only 20 bucks, so if you have a PS2, you gotta buy it! You probably haven't (and probably won't) experience anything like it!
10/10

A Real Gem of a Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, let me start off by saying that games like this don't come around that often, and when they do it's very wise to get 'em while they're hot.

Katamari Damacy might be one of the most original games I've ever played, from the short but strange storyline (the King of All Cosmos has accidentally destroyed all the stars in the sky, and sends you, his pint-sized prince to collect junk from Earth and use it to make more stars. Meanwhile, a little boy, his sister and his mother take a trip to see his fathers space launch...) to the colorful world to the strangest opening cutscene.

It may be the poorly translated English cutscenes, the first time you see the King of All Cosmos vomit "Royal Rainbows", the first time you pick up a screaming human with your katamari, or even when the King asks "Does the prince like VIBRATION?" (refering, however, to the rumble feature built into PS2 controllers), but something in this game is bound to make you laugh, that's just how it is.

And let's not forget the gameplay. It's simple and easy to learn, yet hard to master. You use both analog sticks to roll around a gravity ball called a "katamari", collecting as much junk as you can from the various Earth locales. You get a time limit and a goal size, and then you run free, racing to collect junk and increase your katamari's size. This is strangely addicting, seeing how big you can make your katamari and how fast you can get there, and that adds a lot of replay value to this game. Well, reach your goal size before time runs out and the King will make it into a star. The goal sizes start out small: 10cm in 3 minutes, 30cm in six minutes, but they soon get bigger to 1m, 1.5m, then 6m, and it keeps going until the last level where the goal size is 300m in 25 minutes! This game gets tough towards the end, but you can't stop playing.

As if that weren't enough, there's also multiplayer mode for two players! Though that's not as entertaining as single-player mode, it's still there for people who don't want to take turns.

But wait, there's more! As if all you see here isn't enough, the game also boasts a soundtrack that features a collection of some of the strangest, yet most appropriate tunes in an E rated game.

PLUS you get all that for ONLY $20!! What more could you possibly want?

In conclusion, if you were thinking of buying this game for someone, what are you waiting for? This is definatly Game of the Year material, and will go down in video game history as one of the strangest, most innovative games of all time.

Fantastic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is an incredibly addictive, fun game. Yeah, it is short, but for 20 bucks, quite worth it.

One of the strangest games...ever

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Katamari Damacy is far and away one of the strangest, most original games to come along in years. The gameplay concept, the visual style, the soundtrack, even the backstory are all conceived and executed with such a unique flavor that, when presented as a whole, it's difficult not to be drawn in by all the weird little idiosyncrasies. It's not a complex game, nor is it especially challenging, or long.

Using the analog sticks exclusively, you'll roll the katamari around with tanklike controls. Pushing both sticks up moves the katamari forward, pushing both sticks down moves it backward, and pushing one stick up and one stick down will cause it to turn. There are a few other tricks, such as moving both sticks up and down really fast to gain a quick boost, or pushing in on both sticks to hop on the other side of the katamari and quickly change directions--but this is basically all you'll need to know in order to control it. However, controlling it well is a more nuanced thing. The shapes of the things you collect will affect the overall shape of your katamari, thus affecting how it actually rolls. So, if you roll over a bunch of pencils or a ladder or some carrots, it can make your going a bit more challenging.

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