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You Must Love Katamari Damacy
1up.com has a feature up discussing their deep and abiding love for Katamari Damacy and its sequel. From the article: "The original Katamari Damacy is to many the best example of innovation the game industry has seen in years. It's not easy to define, it doesn't use traditional game mechanics, and it's a game where the music and the feeling of playing are as important as the objective. You roll a ball around, it picks stuff up as you go, and it's a swell time. But to hear game director Keita Takahashi describe it, the concept of "fun" comes before 'innovation.'"
No, I haven't played Nintendogs or Animcal crossing. I'm a straight male, thanks.
And I haven't found a single person who found Killer 7 engaging. Maybe compared to the average Nintendo release, but not compared to the rest of the world. Everything I've seen about it woudl lead me to play it if a friend had a copy of it in his machine and I was sitting around totally bored, but certainly wouldnt' spend $70 for it (or however much console games are these days).
Killer 7 was extremely over-hyped in the beginning... that seems to have died down once people actually were able to play it.
Cause' they are phonetically the same. And the 'shii' thing is not as cool looking.