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With the charming sound track, the classy, "Beautiful" presentation, and the cute and amusing story line, what's not to like. Beautiful Katamari is a brilliant game, albeit a heavily underrated one. It's exactly what the gaming industry needs: a light-hearted, old-school, psychedelic, child nostalgic game that reminds us of why we love games in the first place. With all that's before you, after you play once, you'll find rolling up katamaris to Japanese psych-pop is strangely satisfying.
His head shows up on the screen and he speaks rap sound text for a few seconds then goes away. Buy we love katamari for the ps2 instead. and i have to say this one simply does not do them justice.-the game gets a star for the menus, and ease of play, the game is directed in a different manner than most hardcore games while maintaining a nose to the grindstone type of play. Being the third in its series, the game fails to innovate much, the second game brought snoballs fireballs, and even a sumo wrestler to the game for some odd but very challenging missions. that's a lot in a game and it really takes a lot from the experience.-Overall the game felt unfinished, and not complete, namco didn't push the game to even attempt to be better than the previous one and mostly seemed to target fans for their hard earned money rather than giving them a good time. It wouldn't be so bad if he was in a corner or a ticker tape but he's dead center and takes up about 1/4 of the screen. The other two were boring as well but in a way they kind of made up for it by making a bit of an inkling where the game was going or just providing a backstory like the second one.-If i could i'd remove 2 stars for this, in previous games, the king of all cosmos would speak to you in game to say random things as wow or something to indictae the game was moving on.
Also this game has enourmous amounts of unlockables to find and outfit your cousins with.-Now is where i'll explain why its lacking, -It loses a star because of its overall play. Especially with the large amounts of presents and cousins, over half of any given objective could have his head in the center of your screen. I'm going to fully explain why this title deserves what i've given it, a 2 star.First of all, i'm not a fledgeling roller, i've played and beaten the previous two katamari games on the playstation. The 360 controller feels odd with the sticks so far apart and the ability to quick dash is harmed. you don't roll for long and you have to get to rediculous sizes quite often within a small time limit. - it also gets a star for replay value, while not as high as previous katamaris, If you're really into it you keep trying to beat your times and sizes. In this game he commonly shows up and drones for sometimes a minute or two, blocing your vision and speaking so much nonsense that while funny the first few times it becomes so irritating i found myself "telling"(loudly) him to shut up. The game is also very very short, only a few levels are brought to the 360 with loads of cousins and presents in each making the game get very repetitive as you must play the levels large amount of times before finding sometimes upwards of 10 unlockables.-It loses a star for innovation.
In addition he'd make quick comments about cousins. This game focuses mainly on rolling stuff up, its much faster too, the katimari moves at a much faster clip and as such the timer is reduced, making the game obscenely quick. That is a vital component to speedily beating the challenges. The story in this also is quite underthought and has more of a boring quality. Its a good rental but its not even worth owning, the game can be completed in a few hours with little to no replay value.
I really enjoyed this Katamari game. There is a new soundtrack but I didn't feel it was as good as previous ones. Also, they added MORE cousins. It's pretty much the same as the other Katamaris but I think it may actually be just a little bit harder to accomplish the goals. They ask you to roll up katamaris but ask for certain kinds of items and sometimes your katamari is really big but you get a poor score because you did not collect enough of what they asked for. Overall, if you truly love Katamari, like I do, you will enjoy this game anyway.
BUT, once we actually got to start playing it was fun. Had to use the manual to try to figure out where we wanted to go (multi-player). Starting the game was a little challenging. When we accidentally "flew" off course we couldn't find our way back to the planet and had to restart the game to get our footing.Sounds like it wasn't great and it wasn't. Still trying to figure out the pool table action but it's still cool.
You won't regret it.
Beautiful Katamari is the only Katamari title available for next-gen consoles and luckily (for me at least) it's exclusively on the 360.Graphics are HD sensory overload in the most wonderful, cohesive way you can possible imagine.
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Lots of cultural winks for those of us obsessed with Japan or familiar with their popular culture.
Get it.
Tons of cameos from 80's J-Pop stars coupled with that really nice beat production that we've come to expect from the Katamari series.
Level design is dope with plenty of places to explore and keep coming back for more~.Its all-new soundtrack is worth the admission price alone.
Great intro for those of you who never played Katamari before and a great new addi(c)tion for anyone who's already played the series.
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