5th October 2004, 8:40 PM
C'mon GR! Aren't ya going to post your various triumphs in this game? Everyone at TC used to do that all the time! It was cool!
Anyway, I managed to succesfully roll up every country on Earth (all 195 of them). Yay! There are no more borders, and all are united for I have shown them my peaceful ways ... by FORCE!
I've also obtained legendary "Eternal" levels! I get to roll around forever because there is no such thing as an objective! They even have their own special stars! The only issue I have is if I play those levels again, it doesn't ask me if I want to write over my old star data (like every other level does) and just does it automatically. That kinda sucks if you were just rolling around for fun and made a smaller katamari than whatever your best for that eternal level was... Really though, it's the ONLY flaw I've found with the game, and so long as I don't plan on saving after playing that eternal (or manage to beat my old record), then it's fine.
Also, I got a camera! It's the only present I've found so far that actually DOES something. As you might expect, it shoots fireballs, only you'd be wrong to suspect that because it doesn't, you idiot, it's a CAMERA, it takes pictures!
This game was short, too short for my tastes, it's a shame that such an awesome game suffers shortness syndrome, but oh well, because it's not really over just yet. I still have to get all the level's katamari to the size that makes the king weep (the best rating I believe), still must find all the hidden presents I don't have yet, still have to do all the par times to unlock all the shooting stars, still have to find the largest possible cow and bear in the Ursa Major and Taurus levels (and that's been tough and a little aggrivating since you need to build a massive katamari while at the same time avoiding the VERY plentiful amounts of smaller cows and bears) and finally I still have to roll over every single pickup the game has to offer for my collections. That should give me a decent amount of playtime!
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/katam...99768.html
And there's another one coming soon! I wonder, will they expand on this one's gameplay (good) or make an entirely different sort of game (also good)?
Anyway, I managed to succesfully roll up every country on Earth (all 195 of them). Yay! There are no more borders, and all are united for I have shown them my peaceful ways ... by FORCE!
I've also obtained legendary "Eternal" levels! I get to roll around forever because there is no such thing as an objective! They even have their own special stars! The only issue I have is if I play those levels again, it doesn't ask me if I want to write over my old star data (like every other level does) and just does it automatically. That kinda sucks if you were just rolling around for fun and made a smaller katamari than whatever your best for that eternal level was... Really though, it's the ONLY flaw I've found with the game, and so long as I don't plan on saving after playing that eternal (or manage to beat my old record), then it's fine.
Also, I got a camera! It's the only present I've found so far that actually DOES something. As you might expect, it shoots fireballs, only you'd be wrong to suspect that because it doesn't, you idiot, it's a CAMERA, it takes pictures!
This game was short, too short for my tastes, it's a shame that such an awesome game suffers shortness syndrome, but oh well, because it's not really over just yet. I still have to get all the level's katamari to the size that makes the king weep (the best rating I believe), still must find all the hidden presents I don't have yet, still have to do all the par times to unlock all the shooting stars, still have to find the largest possible cow and bear in the Ursa Major and Taurus levels (and that's been tough and a little aggrivating since you need to build a massive katamari while at the same time avoiding the VERY plentiful amounts of smaller cows and bears) and finally I still have to roll over every single pickup the game has to offer for my collections. That should give me a decent amount of playtime!
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/katam...99768.html
And there's another one coming soon! I wonder, will they expand on this one's gameplay (good) or make an entirely different sort of game (also good)?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)