We Love Katamari: the best game ever made?

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― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Sure, PAL is better quality, but it's fucked us over for games for years. I've only recently fitted my megadrive with a 60hz NTSC switch so that Sonic doesn't seem like he's running through toffee. Some PAL megadrive games are near unplayable!

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Or some Megadrive games are unplayable in 50hz PAL, I should say.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there any way to figure out what levels you have to do next to get more new levels? Like what parts you've missed that are holding you back from getting new levels? I thought it was based on who was yelling at you ("HOWDY! HOWDY!") but now everyone is yelling at me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/code/921111.html

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

(Btw, I know I mentioned that Maddie was having some control issues when she started the first game, but she's since totally pwned both of them.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I really feel that I have rolled up all the cousins (I even made a checklist and went through it one by one) and yet I have found no yellow-shirted boy in the meadow. I resent being locked out of the rose level but I'm not sure how else to determine who I've missed. Maybe one got knocked out of my katamari during the level... :(

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't mean at the end of the game, I think I'm still somewhere in the middle. I don't know how to explain this correctly.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you get the cousin in the training level? Stupidly that's the one that took me forever to figure out.

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

The rose level is real boring. But getting all the cousins and then the level where you roll them up is very satisfying.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there any way to check for the cousins in the items you have rolled overall? Like, how you can check what percent of possible snacks you have rolled up? That's probably too simple.

― Laura H. (laurah), Saturday, 10 December 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

the only way is to look at the top lefthand corner of the screen when you are "chatting" to someone in the meadow. there will be a tiny icon of a cousin or a transparent antenna for a missing cousin.

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 10 December 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there any way to check for the cousins in the items you have rolled overall? Like, how you can check what percent of possible snacks you have rolled up? That's probably too simple.

You can go into the list of stuff you have and switch over to the cousins to see how many you're missing.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 11 December 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Finally rolled up the sun. Turned out I had forgotten to finish the sumo levels and the cowbear level. Whoops. But I am missing so many cousins!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

My fiancee was obsessing over cousins last night. She got all the ones in the old lady stage, but I think there are still like 11 to go.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I got something like 2900 meters on the elephant level last night. I tried to roll up the King of Cosmos but he punched my katamari and sent it flying xD

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

big feature on & interview with keita takahashi in this month's EDGE; if I get time at work tomorrow I'll try scan it in and post it up:

the ormuulu-laden ballroom of london's café royal is an unlikely setting for an outbreak of game-geek sedition, but nonetheless there's a rustle of excited scandal as one game developer leans in to another, whisper-close. "fucking ridiculous," he hisses. "he doesn't deserve the attention."

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The katamari is currently rolling up roses unsupervised at home. I think we're at 600k and counting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Worst katamari ever. :(

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

woah!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

It looks like they have it here now, but that it's sold out.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

more on the control for the psp version

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't see why they don't just make the L/R keys control the rotation of the Prince and the analog nub control the push direction....

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

My fiancee got 1,000,000 roses.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

that must have been one hell of a proposal, jordan!

i don't see why katamari needs such fancy controls. just have a strafe button for crying out loud.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

s1ocki, you need to integrate moving and turning all at once. a strafe button is way limiting. my proposal upthread is better

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah i guess i see what you mean...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Anybody hear the bit on KD on Fresh Air today? Lots of the usual pompous, self-satifsied declarations.

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

such as?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

here

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

god, i hate this guy's delivery. it's like the most stereotypical alvy singer/npr patter.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i was just thinking the same exact thing.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link

How come this shit is streaming too slow to ... stream. GAY

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Hold on... I don't think that the women are easier to roll up then men of the same size....

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that seemed suspect to me too.

"PLUCKING the very PLANES from the SKY!"

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i have never seen or played this game

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Come to think of it, it'd be fun to have a New Zealand level on the order of the flowers one, where you're rolling up sheep and shepherds endlessly.

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

enjoy!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 January 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i read that in the mag, but still know nothing about the bloody game

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

It's surreally fun, Alan. You are rolling rolling rolling a ball all around the house, the town, the beach, picking up random objects that are strewn all over that magically stick to the ball (if they are no bigger than the ball at that moment). The ball gets larger, you pick up cabbages and eyedrops and new driver signs; larger still and you pick up cats and park benches and lifeguards and sumo wrestlers! On most levels you have a time limit and a size goal. The animations and randomness are great, the speeches the King of All Cosmos makes are bizarre, and you are making the stars to put back in the sky. Things can bash into you and knock stuff off your katamari; if you are thwarted in your goal, the King chastises you severely. But you can always try again! It's just exceptionally surreal and more fun than most.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Stop lying to Alan guys... this is a joke and not a funny one at that. If you can't tell that this sick demented game is a metaphor for AIDS in Afroca yet, well, you're in for a lot of cold hard sobering.

Peace, jah rastafari,

Steve Shasta

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, steve shasta has discovered ILG

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link

did the first one of these ever come out in england?

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm sure i'd like it. but it takes me a year to finish a game, and i've still got 2 or 3 games i want to get done, and then the new zelda will be here, ect

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

BTW thank Jaq!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Yr welcome! This game is such a stress-buster, I don't care if I ever finish it. I'm up to Star 7, but RJM has made the moon already and is going back to pick up all the cousins. We have yet to even open We Love Katamari!

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I was feeling really kind of pseudo-bipolar so I rented "rehash sequel" We Love Katamari and "super-amazing Game of the Year" Resident Evil 4 yesterday. Played WLK for 5 hours, decided to try RE4 for a change of pace, dicked around and got pitchfork-murdered for 20 minutes, then switched back to rolling things up. I'm pretty sure this means I am not a True Hardcore Gamer now or some shit like that, but fuck it. I ROLLED UP CAPE CANAVERAL, BASTARDS.

― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

"i'm sure i'd like it. but it takes me a year to finish a game, and i've still got 2 or 3 games i want to get done, and then the new zelda will be here, ect"

As noted above, this is less a game and more of a game that you play to escape games. It's a wondrous trifle; reasonably easy to beat but compelling enough that you'll return to it again and again. Why else roll up a million roses?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh christ

― disco violence (disco violence), Thursday, 26 January 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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