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[AugustWest]

A few days short of a year ago we got the original Katamari Damacy for Christmas.  I've been rolled up ever since.  I got We Love Katamari for my birthday and am now trying to roll up 1,000,000 roses.  Since we had substantial interest in all things Katamari in an earlier thread, what do the usual suspects think about We Love Katamari?

[Ben-San]

We <3 Katamari is nothing short of rad. Some of the stages are incredibly frustrating but on the whole I have to call it a winner. The biggest irritation I have with it (other than the damned fireflies) is the slow-as-dirt turning; using the jump-over-the-ball instant turnaround is almost a necessity. On the other hand, the understeering has the side effect of making dashes much more controllable, giving the dash ability more utility, so.. you win some, you lose some? Or something.

I want to give the new two-player modes a spin, but being a sad and lonely man I haven't gotten the chance.

[robot_roll_call]

Two player with your SO or someone you love is not advised, especially since there is no onscreen indicator of who is doing what.

"Quit turning left!"

"I wasn't! You were!"

"No, you were! You're ruining it!"

"We just missed the crab wearing rollerskates! I HATE YOU!"

On the other hand, it gives you more leeway for two people, so all is forgiven after the round is over.

I love all the theme levels. In particular just DESTROYING that candy house, and the firefly level. It's so relaxing.

[Va]

I <3 We <3 Katamari.  It makes my daughter whoop in delight every time she sees the King of all Cosmos and hears his funky fresh wax scratchin' voice.

[AugustWest]

Hey Va!  Nice to see you around these parts.

[side_show]

Good lord!  I remember when that baby was in your womb!  In your womb!

I want both the Katamari games so bad, but of course that would be buying the actual system too, so no dice.  Are they going to come out with a PS Uber, so that the PS 2 goes down in price to the point where I can buy one without sadness?

[slink]

Are they going to come out with a PS Uber, so that the PS 2 goes down in price to the point where I can buy one without sadness?

Yes, but not for another, ooooooooooooh... 6 months at the very least.
I haven't even got round to checking whether it's out in Europe yet, though I played it a friends. I am more in want to play through Shadow of the Colossus again though.

[linnea]

thread....RESURRECTION! Almost in time for Easter, too! heh. Anyway. I just got my copies of Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari back from a lady that I work with. I have been playing them...well, let's just say an unhealthy amount per day. I cannot believe how much I love that silly game. The noise that it makes every time I pick up an object is just addictive. I love picking up things like chopsticks or street signs to see how it will throw my Katamari off balance! Anyway, I have lowered myself to the level of a lab rat, but I still love that damn game.

[AugustWest]

Hello, my name is Frank and I am a Katamari addict.

Just this past week I went back and started KD from scratch.  Been playing WLK pretty much since it came out (~165,000 roses).   Surprisingly, WLK made me a better KD player.  On Make the Moon I spend about the last 90 seconds idle because there was nothing left to pick up.

The entire feeling, outlook, attitude, gesalt of those games is just so positive and right.

[Ben-San]

I haven't played We <3 Katamari much since completing the million roses. I should get back to it when I'm not having freakouts.

[AugustWest]

I haven't played We <3 Katamari much since completing the million roses. I should get back to it when I'm not having freakouts.

You got a million roses?  How did you do it?  I get bored to easily. 

What happens when you get a million?

[jough]

You start all over again.

[Ben-San]

You got a million roses?  How did you do it?  I get bored to easily. 

What happens when you get a million?

The little spinning star on a couple of loading screens becomes a little spinning rose, some roses grow in the stage-select meadow, the title screen changes from We <3 Katamari to A Million Roses (I think; it might be One Million Roses) and a bonus track appears in the sound test. It is not much reward for a long and boring thing to do, but then again you weren't promised anything special.

Also, as you increase your rose count the King expresses increasing degrees of disbelief in your patience, the lonely rose gets bigger and its dialog changes some.

As for how I did it, I confess that I only actually got about a tenth of the roses myself. Mostly I reloaded the stage until it came up the ice rink, rubber-banded the joysticks into position, and left it running while I was doing other stuff on my computer. Since I didn't want to miss any messages, I didn't leave it running overnight, but if you do that it'll go faster. This method is considerably slower than rolling up all the roses yourself but is much less likely to make you curse the heavens.

[theinevitable]

this game makes me want a ps2.

AGH

[robot_god]

I bought WLK a week after I hit a slot machine in Atlantic City and was looking for something to spend money on.  I played it about two hours and haven't picked it up since.

If I can get through studying these two sections on pathology, maybe I will pick the game up tonight.

Or maybe I should go buy the new MLB...