Mai Valentine
Moderator
August 27, 2004 - So dad is the King of the Cosmos -- this freaky giant dude who looms over planets, has bizarre tastes in clothing, and shoots teleporting rainbows out of his mouth. One night he gets real drunk or incredibly high on some kind of space drugs; the next morning there are no stars. There's only you (the prince), your giant wad of sticky Katamari, and an order to roll up as much junk as possible so that Dad can make the stars shine again. If you fail, he will berate you and get all stormy. If you succeed, there will be more stars and your character will also get neat things like a pretty scarf.
We're slow learners, but with Katamari Damacy -- the new game from Namco (because nothing more descriptive than game would properly do this one justice) -- it wasn't until the very first second of the intro that we began to understand how completely and totally awesome this experience would be. One second was all it took.
Still, we didn't think we were nearly drunk enough to really appreciate Katamari Damamcy at first, so we spent the next few hours downing beers and shooting the contents of a nearby bottle of Maker's Mark (always on-hand here at IGN). Now we can play. Now we can write.
The one thing we're having trouble doing with this preview is explaining what this game is, let alone how fundamentally incredible it happens to be. Basically you're this little green dude (prince of the Cosmos), and your father is the abusive king-drunk. You have this giant sticky ball (the Katamari), and you run around a variety of environments picking up junk. The more junk you pick up, the bigger your ball gets. The bigger your ball gets, the more junk you can pick up.
Early on in the game you start by collecting thumbtacks and crackers. The prince of the Cosmos is very small, you see. Later, as the ball grows mid-mission and in more difficult missions, you can grab mice, birds, kitties, dogs, books, radiators, tables, people, cars, dump trucks, trees, houses, boats, tankers, sea monsters, giant buildings, and just about anything that happens to be just about anywhere. It's absolute insanity.
Dad needs all this crap because he uses it to make stars to replace the ones he drunkenly broke. The beginning of each mission starts with dad commanding you to accumulate a certain amount of goods, like 10cm worth of trash or whatever. Do that and you unlock another area where you have to collect a meter's worth of stuff and this goes on and on and on. At times new scenarios will open up. They're of the "Collect as many fish, cows, and crabs as possible" variety. Yup, this is the greatest game of all time.
Throughout all of this incredibly addicting cow collecting come the greatest cutscnees of all time. In them the kind of the cosmos terrorizes a couple of block-headed children who think something is wrong with all these stars disappearing. It's simply brilliant.
Oh yeah, and there's two-player split-screen multiplayer. Our lives can end now and we'd be happy.
That's all there is to it really. If you'd like more information, which you should unless you want a cosmic beating of galactic proportions, please, for the love of all that is good and just in this universe, click on our media page below and watch movies of us rolling over people in this, the greatest videogame of all time.
As soon as we sober up we'll bring you more information. If you'd like it emailed to you as it happens, please add Katamari Damacy to your watched list.
Source: IGN PS2 (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/542/542982p1.html)
It seems like a really interesting and fun game. I think I'll have to get it and try it out when it's released.
We're slow learners, but with Katamari Damacy -- the new game from Namco (because nothing more descriptive than game would properly do this one justice) -- it wasn't until the very first second of the intro that we began to understand how completely and totally awesome this experience would be. One second was all it took.
Still, we didn't think we were nearly drunk enough to really appreciate Katamari Damamcy at first, so we spent the next few hours downing beers and shooting the contents of a nearby bottle of Maker's Mark (always on-hand here at IGN). Now we can play. Now we can write.
The one thing we're having trouble doing with this preview is explaining what this game is, let alone how fundamentally incredible it happens to be. Basically you're this little green dude (prince of the Cosmos), and your father is the abusive king-drunk. You have this giant sticky ball (the Katamari), and you run around a variety of environments picking up junk. The more junk you pick up, the bigger your ball gets. The bigger your ball gets, the more junk you can pick up.
Early on in the game you start by collecting thumbtacks and crackers. The prince of the Cosmos is very small, you see. Later, as the ball grows mid-mission and in more difficult missions, you can grab mice, birds, kitties, dogs, books, radiators, tables, people, cars, dump trucks, trees, houses, boats, tankers, sea monsters, giant buildings, and just about anything that happens to be just about anywhere. It's absolute insanity.
Dad needs all this crap because he uses it to make stars to replace the ones he drunkenly broke. The beginning of each mission starts with dad commanding you to accumulate a certain amount of goods, like 10cm worth of trash or whatever. Do that and you unlock another area where you have to collect a meter's worth of stuff and this goes on and on and on. At times new scenarios will open up. They're of the "Collect as many fish, cows, and crabs as possible" variety. Yup, this is the greatest game of all time.
Throughout all of this incredibly addicting cow collecting come the greatest cutscnees of all time. In them the kind of the cosmos terrorizes a couple of block-headed children who think something is wrong with all these stars disappearing. It's simply brilliant.
Oh yeah, and there's two-player split-screen multiplayer. Our lives can end now and we'd be happy.
That's all there is to it really. If you'd like more information, which you should unless you want a cosmic beating of galactic proportions, please, for the love of all that is good and just in this universe, click on our media page below and watch movies of us rolling over people in this, the greatest videogame of all time.
As soon as we sober up we'll bring you more information. If you'd like it emailed to you as it happens, please add Katamari Damacy to your watched list.
Source: IGN PS2 (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/542/542982p1.html)
It seems like a really interesting and fun game. I think I'll have to get it and try it out when it's released.
