Namco's Bizarre Object Conglomeration Game Rated

Thanks to Game Science for its review of Namco's extremely odd PlayStation 2 game, Katamari Damacy, recently released in Japan. The game's premise involves fixing your father the King's drunken heaven-trashing exploits by "...collecting a load of junk from Earth, rolling it into clumps, and sending it up into the Cosmos to make stars." The gameplay is also distinctly unconventional: "Starting with a clump no bigger than the Prince himself, you must roll around the deepest crevices [MPEG link] of a house, picking up tiny things like drawing pins, moving up to Shogi tiles and batteries", before moving all the way up to "picking up giant octopi and huge monsters." The reviewer ends by noting: "A European release can't be ruled out, but a US release seems very unlikely. It's likely to become hot property when word spreads of its goodness, so I recommend a quick purchase if you're teetering on the brink of buying it."

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Meanwhile . . .

[Momomoto]

Namco's servers start looking a little like stars (ie. super-heated balls of gas) when hordes of avid Slashdot readers all attempt to simultaneously download a 10-megabyte MPEG file at once.

Re:One step back towards reality

[Rallion]

This is coming from a country which makes dating sims. This sort of gameplay is a step back towards reality.

Just because dating and reality fail to intersect in you own personal life, my friend, don't be so quick to assume such things of others.