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PS2
Katamari Damacy [The Best]
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NCS Game Synopsis
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To redeem his father's transgressions against the
stars in the heavens, Oji-sama (Prince) has to roll.
By rolling a lot of objects into a big bumpy blob,
perhaps the stars will be replenished. Oji starts
small with a nucleus of material which emits magical
magnetic power and little objects such as saws,
bottles, and boxes are soon attracted to the mass
and add to its growing morass. In the early going,
larger objects prove to be obstacles rather than
fodder for the rolling but once Oji's ball grows a
little larger, bigger items become fair game for
girth seeking gamers. Once enough garbage, material,
folk and anything else that might be in the way are
snatched up, entire buildings become mere pickup
sticks for Oji and his miraculous mass of matter.
Control of the "ball" is mastered through the Dual
Shock thumb sticks and maneuverability gets tougher
as the mass grows ever larger.
The game is a light-hearted and
highly enjoyable romp but the sight of citizens
adhering to a mass of mass construction may be
offsetting to tender hearted gamers. The hapless
souls who become stuck to the ball shiver, twitch
and shake like little trapped insects. Ever see a
fly whose wings have become helplessly glued to a
spider's web? Those little legs flail and stammer as
the fly ponders it's fate - not knowing that a
predator will soon cocoon it for tomorrow's
breakfast. That's what the human attachments are
reminiscent of...sans the spider. Katamari Damacy
probably won't sell any appreciable numbers but
kudos should be given to Namco for testing an
offbeat premise which may well become our sleeper of
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