Namco's Bizarre Object Conglomeration Game Rated

Thanks to Game Science for its review of Namco's extremely odd PlayStation 2 game, Katamari Damacy, recently released in Japan. The game's premise involves fixing your father the King's drunken heaven-trashing exploits by "...collecting a load of junk from Earth, rolling it into clumps, and sending it up into the Cosmos to make stars." The gameplay is also distinctly unconventional: "Starting with a clump no bigger than the Prince himself, you must roll around the deepest crevices [MPEG link] of a house, picking up tiny things like drawing pins, moving up to Shogi tiles and batteries", before moving all the way up to "picking up giant octopi and huge monsters." The reviewer ends by noting: "A European release can't be ruled out, but a US release seems very unlikely. It's likely to become hot property when word spreads of its goodness, so I recommend a quick purchase if you're teetering on the brink of buying it."

a US release

[Kanasta]

is not advised. The people are likely to copycat the game and stick things like pins and other sharp objects into themselves.

Oh wait...

Warning.

[ajutla]

Do not actually attempt to roll around and collect things as is done in the MPEG, no matter how fun it looks. Not only will attempting this likely be painful, it might get you in trouble with the law and would also probably be very, very embarassing.

Re:a US release

[ajutla]

Or worse. Consider: Due consideration should also be given to people - your primary enemy, and also your main source of clump fodder in later levels. Can you imagine the social problems this would cause? We'd have kids trying to roll over people and crush them into massive blobs, then ignite them into stars! Ye gods!

Who thought of this?

[Rallion]

Because Pikmin just isn't weird enough.