We love Katamari

The Core Video Games Forum
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I bought Katamari Damacy about a week ago, and I enjoy it greatly. I’ve always wanted one of the katamari games, but I never gave it much consideration. I saw KD for 15$ preowned, and though sure, I got bux to blow. I haven’t completed it (I lent it to a friend), but got to Make a Star 6, and I am hooked.

I understand that WLK is the sequel to the first, and I’m thinking of getting it. It’s about 25-30$ preowned, so it’s pretty inexpensive. I played a demo where it was me and a friend co-op on one katamari and it was quite an experience.

But does this bring anything new? i noticed that the booklet for KD said there’s only like 2 areas (house & world), and wondering if WLK expands on that. I’d love to buy it just because it completes a collection (I realize there is another, but I haven’t a PSP), but if all it is, is more rolling instead of actual difference, I might be opposed to it.

I apologize for my typing, this is a pressure sensitive keyboard.

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Well, it’s mostly rolling. There are a few changes - you can roll the katamari up vertical walls a short distance now, for one. Otherwise, there are new types of missions based around rolling things up. You still have the basic “get X big in X time,” “collect the same type of object,” and so on, but you have stages with a burning katmari (have to continually get new stuff to keep the fire going), a “fast” katamari (you roll constantly and quickly), new environments (underwater, for one), and a few other things. There are more small-scale environments - bedroom, a schooll, a racetrack, pond, campground, and more - but they’re all of course set in a larger world that you get to roll up sooner or later.

It’s a fine buy if you just want to enjoy more rolling. It has enough variety that you don’t feel you’re doing the same thing over and over again.

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I’m fairly certain the vertical rolling was in the original too.

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I love the idea of a burning katamari. That enough is incentive to get it. I guess once October is over (FFXII and GH bought), I’ll pick a copy up.

edit; there is vertical rolling, but only a short distance. I mean short distance. This is used to get up small ledges.

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Katamari is so weird o_o. From what I hear if you like katamari 1 , you’ll like the 2nd. Its more of the same. RPT seems to know more about it though.

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What they said. We <3 Katamari does not innovate much, but it doesn’t need to. It’s a lot more of the stuff that made Katamary Damacy loveable.

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The soundtrack of We <3 Katamari is inferior to the original, and there’s a lot of gimmick stages which can be fun but can also be an exercise in TERROR (read: catch bears). Also, there’s no Eternal Stages to unlock, which sucks.

The ending is really cool, though. And it has co-op.