We Love Katamari: the best game ever made?

I bought a cheap s/h ps2 and pre-ordered it, so it had betterer be as bloody good as you lot make it out to be.
-- aldo_cowpat (aldo...), January 26th, 2006 11:18 AM.

We Love Katamari: the best game ever made.
-- jeffrey (jeffrey...), February 5th, 2006 4:20 PM. (later)

CAN'T... STOP... PLAYING...
-- aldo_cowpat (aldo...), February 5th, 2006 5:48 PM. (later)

hey, i rolled up the sun on the same day!

So someone has to help me, where the heck are the last 100 cranes on that origami level. I've been in every classroom and the locker room and still can't get much more than 900!

most satisfying multi-roll so far - the huge wooden fence at the zoo made up of individual logs.

Actually the third campfire mission is pretty good.

and where does it tell you how many more cousins you need to get? it seems like i have loads at the moment.

No shipping to UK, unfortunately, but perhaps if some US ilXorz felt kindly towards us Brits...

i like when he shows the way to new areas. i seemed to get lost a lot in katamari damacy

i got just over 1,600m and it's still saying i can do bigger. wtf!

http://photos14.flickr.com/14920673_7021d070ae_m.jpg

The intro was all very annoying. "katamari is the best game ever! Everybody loves katamari! katamari has fans all around the world! Oh, but you've not been able to join in cos you're english haha". Made me not want to bother playing, right from the outset.

The manual is gorgeous. When the bear and the fox have a fight! Ace.

i like the dude with the crash helmet in the manual

or something

I know, it's daft that it pissed me off, but...yeah, us europeans are used to waiting for stuff, and we understand the extra localistion time (translating to five languages or whatever it is) and everything, but for the last few years most things have got here within 4 or 5 months at worst, and lots of things have come out very soon after or even at the same time as they've been released elsewhere. And mostly it doesn't affect me anyway cos I've got a Japanese DS and an American cube, so the PS2 is the only machine I can't play imports on. But yeah, namco have been really quite shit this time round. For a game as big as katamari to not hit the UK in ANY form at all until 2 years after its original japanese release is bloody awful. And I don't even mind playing it late, it's not a big deal, it's the same game whenever I play it, doesn't matter...but then the intro was all about how great and successful the first game (which never got released here at all) was, and I dunno, it just felt...a bit insensitive.

But, heh, in trying to explain why it bugged me I've probably managed to sound much more upset about it than I actually am. :)

Much further into the game now, and liking it a lot more. It's still a bit flawed I think, and definitely isn't the best game I've ever played (in fact I'm probably enjoying AOE3 more, right now), but yes, it's lots of fun. Old lady level is tricky.

It isn't that big. Electronic Arts keeps the good shit down. Fight the real enemy.

When I got up to my first c2000m katamari and was mopping up islands and countries and gods, I was thinking "man, this must be how Oppenheimer felt".

But it's not the same game, you're playing the sequel.

:(

I doubt it. I mean, have you seen the opening credits? The dude just likes pandas.