![]() Getting used to the careful movements needed to navigate shelves and tabletops isn't easy, but then again, it's not meant to be. If you’re playing with the standard controls, you’ll soon learn to use the right stick to adjust your position and both sticks to help the Prince move his increasingly vast ball around the environment. If you’ve never played any of the Katamari games before, its twin-stick controls might take a little getting used to. And with all manner of living creatures roaming this Earthly homes – ranging from slow snails to imposing house cats in the first couple of hours – there are plenty of dangers to slow down your star-building process. Some objects can’t be moved, and if you hit them too hard you’ll risk knocking items loose. To begin with, you can even pick up relatively larger objects such as toy bricks or cards, but you’ll need to be moving fast enough to knock them over. ![]() You’ll pick up pins, badges and pencils, and each one will impact how mobile your growing ball is. Since you just so happen to be small in stature, these bedrooms, gardens, oceans and cities and littered with detritus to collect. Momentum, size and the gradient of the surface you’re currently rolling across all determine what 'sticks' to your ball. And the bigger the ball, the more impressed your cosmic papa will be so you’ll really need to scour every corner of each setting. The bigger the ball becomes, the bigger things he can pick up. The more things he runs over, the bigger the ball becomes. In order to refill the sky with stars, the Prince needs to roll a ball around a series of small maps. Turns out his father – the King of the Cosmos, naturally – knocked them all down while he was barrelling around the universe, so it’s up to his tube-headed heir to roll up some new ones. Borne out of a high school design competition in Tokyo, Katamari Damacy followed the story of the Prince of the Cosmos, who is tasked with replacing all the stars in the sky. ![]() ![]() Thankfully, the peculiar world of Katamari has returned in the form of Katamari Damacy Reroll, and it’s ready to serve a slice of out-of-this-world action in glorious HD.įirst released on PlayStation 2 a whopping 14 years ago, the original proved an instant hit in both Japan and the West, offering up a bizarre experience that was completely unlike anything else out there. In an era where so much emphasis is placed on gritty realism, life-like character models and terrifyingly accurate simulations, it’s nice to punctuate that authenticity with oddity or two. Games are often at their best when they embrace the truly weird and wonderful. ![]()
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