Post by ryanosaur on Sept 11, 2005 9:53:40 GMT -5
I don't know if any of you heard the hype about Katamari Damacy when it first came out. If you did, let me tell you, it's true.
In this game, you are a small little alien boy who rolls a ball around various locations (including a house, a backyard, a street, a neighborhood, a fairground, a town, a giant city, the world.) and collects items on this ball.
The point of the game is to collect as many items on your ball as possible, to make it bigger and bigger.
the storyline is, some giant god decided to destroy all the stars in the world, and now he sent the "prince" which is you, to Earth to Gather up shit, and send it to outerspace to make stars.
At first, you start small in the house, gathering small things like pencils, erasers, thumbtacks, crackers, gum, paperclips, you know, the smaller stuff. If you're lucky you might get big enough to get a rat or two on your ball.
Eventually you get to further and further levels to the point where you're picking up humans, cars, and eventually houses, giant boats, and if you keep playing, huge squids and giant slabs of land, and eventually, if you keep playing you can pick up tornados, clouds in the sky, and basically everything that isn't water.
The game is a lot of fun. The controls are pretty simple, you only use the two analog sticks, and you just push a ball around and everything it touches gets picked up (based on size of ball vs. size of object).
the soundtrack is amazing. it's intense japanese trip-pop. It's great fun to listen to.
All in all this game is absolutely worth a rent. The replay value isn't amazingly high, so, you probabaly won't play it a lot after the initial 3 hours it may take for you to beat the game (considering how good a job you do. the more time you invest, the better a job you do). But, it's absolutely worth the experience. I've never played a game anything like Katamari Damacy. It's the most random, LSD-influenced game I've ever played. I can barely imagine how much this game would blow your mind if you were on any sort of outside influence. I think anyone on Acid Playing Katamari Damacy would have their brains blow up, just because of how colourful, random and fun this game truly is. I almost passed out, and I was sober.
In this game, you are a small little alien boy who rolls a ball around various locations (including a house, a backyard, a street, a neighborhood, a fairground, a town, a giant city, the world.) and collects items on this ball.
The point of the game is to collect as many items on your ball as possible, to make it bigger and bigger.
the storyline is, some giant god decided to destroy all the stars in the world, and now he sent the "prince" which is you, to Earth to Gather up shit, and send it to outerspace to make stars.
At first, you start small in the house, gathering small things like pencils, erasers, thumbtacks, crackers, gum, paperclips, you know, the smaller stuff. If you're lucky you might get big enough to get a rat or two on your ball.
Eventually you get to further and further levels to the point where you're picking up humans, cars, and eventually houses, giant boats, and if you keep playing, huge squids and giant slabs of land, and eventually, if you keep playing you can pick up tornados, clouds in the sky, and basically everything that isn't water.
The game is a lot of fun. The controls are pretty simple, you only use the two analog sticks, and you just push a ball around and everything it touches gets picked up (based on size of ball vs. size of object).
the soundtrack is amazing. it's intense japanese trip-pop. It's great fun to listen to.
All in all this game is absolutely worth a rent. The replay value isn't amazingly high, so, you probabaly won't play it a lot after the initial 3 hours it may take for you to beat the game (considering how good a job you do. the more time you invest, the better a job you do). But, it's absolutely worth the experience. I've never played a game anything like Katamari Damacy. It's the most random, LSD-influenced game I've ever played. I can barely imagine how much this game would blow your mind if you were on any sort of outside influence. I think anyone on Acid Playing Katamari Damacy would have their brains blow up, just because of how colourful, random and fun this game truly is. I almost passed out, and I was sober.