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We Love Katamari Review
Balbanes writes "Tim Rogers reviews We Love Katamari. He calls it Katamari Damashii: The Videogame." The original is probably my favorite non World of Warcraft game in the last year or two. I can't wait for this game. This article has a lot of commentary on the gameplay, the music, and more. And really, if you haven't played it the original you owe it to yourself to try. The infectious music and hysterical gameplay are a serious treat.
Can someone here tell me what kind of drugs the Katamari Damacy soundtrack producer was on?
Who cares about the soundtrack? The entire fucking game is one huge mushroom/acid twofer.
I mean seriously, when you roll over a "meow cat" and sit there laughing hysterically, sober, meowing at the screen you know that you're stoned.
If his writing doesn't make your head hurt, you might want to up your medication. That's not a video game review, sorry- it's a demonstration of what's wrong with the concept of everyone being a content producer. Sometimes the content just sucks. Sure, he talks about the video game, but is it really the focus of the article, or is Tim Rogers the focus of the article?
Ouch, looking around the site, it looks like this guy writes a lot of 'reviews' and they're all like this. Now we know to stay away... thanks, I guess...
Personally, I love Tim Rogers' writing.
The problem is that many of you go into this "Review" thinking that you are going to be reading a review of a game, but in actuality you are reading a story. An experience, if you will. Kind of a review of what was going in Tim's life when he played Katamari Damacy, rather than a review of the game itself.
It might put off a lot of the people here, but I think it is quite interesting. His writing is frenetic at times, and most certainly stream-of-concious, and he oftentimes assumes the reader already knows about every obscure thing which interests him, but that is what makes his writing interesting. It serves to really get the reader into Tim's mind, and see things the way he sees them. It's this great internal perspective that really shows why things are wonderful to Tim, and captures certain insights that we would never make or experience ourselves, but are somehow made our own through Tim's writing.
The State of Tokyo Transit is one of his fiction stories which I first stumbled upon two years ago, and from the first sentence I was entranced. I highly reccommend giving it a read. He has a whole series on Tokyopia entitled, "The State of Tokyo" & randWord, but I think this is his best. Seriously, go read it. I think it's just great. I liked it so much that I e-mailed him after I read it the first time, and he told me that it's part of a book that he's written but has never been published. He seemed like quite a nice guy.
Yes yes yes. This has angered me for a long time as well, and the bit you put in about the industry catering is totally true.
I like living in Japan for the food, because I've spent a while learning the language so it'd be nice to get it to some level of proficiency, and because Tokyo's interesting. It seems like more and more whenever I admit to having spent time in Japan I have to put up with the stereotypes formed by the general public based on these juvenile twits. Not everybody chooses samurai, anime and video games as their reasons for liking Japan.