Katamari Damacy

I have to tell ya. judging from what I am reading about Katamari Damacy. I believe that it is has to be one of the stranger games out there for the PS2. Oh sure, the game play is pretty good and the plot received more than a fair rating.

Still, the idea of playing a game that involves ‘rolling around’ sounds a little too much like Sonic the hedgehog to me.

What happens when your father the King of All Cosmos screws up and accidentally destroys every star in the nigh sky? He makes you; the Prince, clean up his mess and pick up the leftovers.

That’s the premise behind Nacmo’s zany intelligent masterpiece named Katamari Damacy. If you’re asking yourself what the heck a katamari is, it’s a little ball that the Prince rolls around that things stick to. This ball is his only tool to fix what his clumsy father went and did so he better get rolling!Gameplay: Probably the most amazing thing about Katamari Damacy that has to be mentioned first is that this game appeals to absolutely every one of all ages. At first my wife who is not a gamer raised an eyebrow when she saw me playing this simple looking, flamboyant videogame. What I found astonishing was I came home the next day and she had been sitting there for about three hours playing the game, something that she’s never done before.

But what kind of magic does this game have that it can turn people who normally don’t play videogames into addicts? The entire package comes to mind, but the most important reason is the gameplay.