The wacky Katamari guy

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/katamari-da...128608.php

Katamari Damacy creator and wonderkind Keita Takahashi proves once again how much he hates games. (I was beginning to worry whether or not he really detested gaming.) Check out the Japanese Katamari site and see the following story that unfolds between a boy and a bear.

BOY: What’s Katamari Damacy
BEAR: It’s a video game!
BOY: What? What’s a video game?
BEAR: (playing a shooter) You connect the game console to the TV and then control the image on the screen. It’s an amazing way to play.

[The Bear’s spacecraft is destroyed.]

BOY: Oh no.

[“Game Over” appears on the screen.]

BOY: You really suck. I understand what videogames are, but I still don’t know what Katamari Damacy is. Thank you very much.

Woah. Read between the lines: Video games are violent tripe, while Katamari is different and not a video game. Did loose canon Takahashi slip this subversive commentary into the site or did Namco ok it? Considering how the company pretty much invented the shooter with Galaga, their hands ain’t exactly clean.

If you click around some more, you can find the part where the boy tells the bear to kill his PlayStation and go to an art museum with uncle Keita.

Click on the Boy [Official Site]

http://katamaridamacy.jp/contents.html