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We Love Katamari Review

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-i-want-to-play dept.

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.

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  1. Who cares. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I don't love Katamari. How did this make the front page?

  2. Man... by Otter · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I'm a Japanophile, too, but there's something about that culture that really attracts some creepy (or at least unsettling) gaijin. I'm having trouble putting a finger on what it might be, probably because it's a mix of technology, childlikeness, obscurity, sex but not too much sex, and a bunch of other things.

    In fairness, the guys who glom onto Asian countries _primarily_ over sex are quite a bit creepier...

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    What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
  3. eh? by Danathar · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And WHY does this deserve to grace the front page of slashdot? In the gaming section sure...but the front page? Slow news day?

  4. Two Words: Vomit Porn by disc-chord · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You put the Japanese second to Germans?

    Sure Germany is known for it's shit eating porn... but Japan's got its fair share or shit eating porn and the only country that really produces vomit porn.

    I recall in my sceneing days a little number called "Fish Girl" that hit all of the ftps. While I wouldn't call myself a pervert; I am a very curious sort and immediately set to leech what is without a doubt the weirdest porn I've ever seen. 60 solid minutes of guys shoving dead sea-critters into a young Japanese lady. That would have been enough to easily hold on to a "Weirdest Porn" title, but to make sure no one will ever dethrone it they added a storyline. It wasn't subbed and at the time didn't speak a word of Japanese, but it had something to do with one of the old guys needing to go to the hospital for chest pains. This of course necessitated the show hitting the road and them doing more freaky shit with this girl in a van on the way.

    From the Germans I was especially mortified and puzzled by a skin-head fisting video in which a bunch of skin-heads are sitting around in their hang-out spot when a couple of guys get into an altercation. They fight. The loser gets fisted by the victor and of course passers-by. The really weird part about this is it wasn't really homosexual or even sexual at all. It was like a documentary that went horribly wrong.

    BTW, you really can desensitize yourself to anything. I don't choke up when I see vomit anymore, but I still clench up when I see a skin-head.