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Katamari Damacy for PSP!
Dec. 31st, 2005 09:17 amToday, the lovely postman delivered my copy of Boku no Watashi no Katamari Damacy (English title: Me & My Katamari Damacy) from Lik-Sang. It was dispatched from Hong Kong on 22nd December, the day of release, via the free delivery option of Global Priority so I was suprised it got here so quickly despite the Christmas post and the like. Admittedly, I was a bit miffed when my brother got his copy yesterday considering I had ordered mine months before him but it's here now so all is forgiven :P.
For those who don't know about the game or have never heard of it... well it's a bit hard to explain. Basically the objective is to roll your Katamari Damacy (Translates to: Lump of Souls) which is basically a ball, around a world where's there's lots of stuff lying around. As you roll over things which are smaller than your ball, they stick to the ball making it larger. You start off picking up tiny things like tacks and bits of sushi but as the game progresses and your Karamari grows larger allowing you to pick up larger things such as people and eventually their houses! It's quite bizarre a concept but one that works really well. I had only played the game once before when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sandroo showed it to me but I fell in love with it there and then. Now with the release of the PSP version, I don't need to bother getting a PS2 or 3 (well not yet at least).
The main problem with this version of the game is that it's in Japanese. Now, I know I was ordering a Japanese game but I expected to get by without knowing the language seeing as it's a pretty accessible game. However, it is easily playable without knowing a single character of Kanji, however when you get to mission based levels, you kinda work out what you were supposed to have done once you failed (like get 3000 points from collecting animals). The controls emulate the PS2's dual analogue controls by using the D pad and the 4 buttons on the right as the analogue sticks, and the same "tank track" controls are used. It can be a bit fiddly but it's not so bad once you get used to it.
Anyway, despite the minor setbacks of the game, it is a very enjoyable game and every bit as fun as the original. The music is fantastic and the graphics are beautiful. Once this comes out in Europe (yes, it's been announced but don't know when... maybe March), I'll be snapping it up again. This is certainly a killer app for the console, definitley what it needed, and about time too!
For those who don't know about the game or have never heard of it... well it's a bit hard to explain. Basically the objective is to roll your Katamari Damacy (Translates to: Lump of Souls) which is basically a ball, around a world where's there's lots of stuff lying around. As you roll over things which are smaller than your ball, they stick to the ball making it larger. You start off picking up tiny things like tacks and bits of sushi but as the game progresses and your Karamari grows larger allowing you to pick up larger things such as people and eventually their houses! It's quite bizarre a concept but one that works really well. I had only played the game once before when
sandroo showed it to me but I fell in love with it there and then. Now with the release of the PSP version, I don't need to bother getting a PS2 or 3 (well not yet at least).The main problem with this version of the game is that it's in Japanese. Now, I know I was ordering a Japanese game but I expected to get by without knowing the language seeing as it's a pretty accessible game. However, it is easily playable without knowing a single character of Kanji, however when you get to mission based levels, you kinda work out what you were supposed to have done once you failed (like get 3000 points from collecting animals). The controls emulate the PS2's dual analogue controls by using the D pad and the 4 buttons on the right as the analogue sticks, and the same "tank track" controls are used. It can be a bit fiddly but it's not so bad once you get used to it.
Anyway, despite the minor setbacks of the game, it is a very enjoyable game and every bit as fun as the original. The music is fantastic and the graphics are beautiful. Once this comes out in Europe (yes, it's been announced but don't know when... maybe March), I'll be snapping it up again. This is certainly a killer app for the console, definitley what it needed, and about time too!
