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Katamari Forever (PS3) |  | From: Namco
Category: Video Games
List Price: £44.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 1910
Format: Unknown format
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: puzzle-games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: BLES00658
EAN: 3296580810161
ASIN: B002DR4AJU
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Featuring the largest collection of stages, modes, songs, and cousins to date, remixed classic Katamari Damacy tunes, a brand-new storyline, multiple new visual effects and 1080p graphics, Katamari Forever is the ultimate Katamari experience.
Staying true to the eccentric Katamari universe and its unique gameplay, players in Katamari Forever will use the Prince's Katamari to roll up everyday objects. The more objects the Prince rolls up, the larger his Katamari becomes, allowing him to roll up even bigger items. In Katamari Forever the Prince faces his toughest challenge yet with more weird and wonderful Katamari to roll up than ever before.
A terrible event has occurred causing the stars to disappear from the night sky and the King of All Cosmos to fall into a coma. The Prince must use his finely tuned Katamari rolling skills once more to re-create the absent celestial bodies, save his royal father and restore order to the Cosmos. Thumb tacks, sushi, cats, people, skyscrapers, ocean liners and continents - nothing is safe as the Prince makes his way through the largest variety of stages ever in a single Katamari game.
New graphical styles give Katamari Forever a certain "je ne sais quoi" that all-new Katamari games possess. The Wood style uses warm sepia tones to give stages a wooden feel while Comic creates thick black outlines on every object, filled in with deep, rich colours. There are various styles to choose from, so make sure to try them all out and find your favourite for a totally new way to experience the world of Katamari.
In addition to all these great new features, Katamari Forever will also contain local cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes. Choose your favourite cousin and play together or take on friends and family in heated competition. Who will become the Katamari champion?
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 Katamari...I love you <3 September 22, 2009
G. Thomas (Canterbury UK)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Ahhh Katamari... how I love you.
Once again the utterly bonkers roll-and-collect game is upon us and despite being more of the same is still fantastic fun.
The flailing legs and terrified screams of passers-by as they get rolled into a massive Katamari never fails to amuse but this time it's in glorious HD.
For the uninitiated: You are the Prince (of all cosmos) and you roll a Katamari (a kind of sticky ball) around levels collecting all the objects left lying around. As you collect more objects the Katamri scales-up and you can roll up bigger and bigger things evenually rolling up skyscrapers, ocean liners, trains and other huge objects. There is usually a time limit and a size-needed but some levels impose more stringent targets. My favourite level (Ring-Out) involves rolling a Sumo wrestler and picking up food until he is big enough to bounce the other wrestler out of the ring.
You've got your mad-as-a-box-of-frogs storyline (as usual) concerning the King being hit on the head by an asteroid. A Robot-King replacement is built who promptly eats all the stars then has an attack of conscience and wishes us to replace them all. Meanwhile the King recovers and has lost his memory so we must roll some highly defined Katamari to help it's return. Last but not least are the intermission-style TV cutscenes that absolutely defy all attempts at any rational description.
The menu pages are in the style of a pop-up book and work beautifully within the context of the game allowing you to switch levels, change character, view your collection of rolled objects or even visually customise your character with presents you find on each level.
"Katamari Forever" is almost a collection of greatest hits mixed with some new ideas. The older levels are black and white but colour-in as you collect more with your sticky ball of doom. Two new features are a jump button which proves extremely useful and the broken-hearts that when collected cause all nearby objects to be sucked into your Katamari for a limited time. Other than that it's business as usual.
This is a tremendously inventive and visually amusing game which is unlike anything you've played before (unless you're a Katamari veteran of course) and proves to be highly addictive when you surrender yourself to its undoubted charms.
Anyway...I could rattle on about all the things I love about Katamari games but I have a Katamari race to win and this time when I pass the starting line I'm determined to catch that Tarzan as he swings temptingly from right to left.
Best. Game. Ever. October 26, 2009
S. Dean (High Wycombe, UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nah-n-nah-na-na-nah-nah-nah, Katamari Damacy!
Having never before played (or indeed, heard of!) any of the Katamari series previous to stumbling across this little gem, i was completely astounded as to why i hadn't. Quite simply, this game is awesome.
The idea is simple. You play 'The Prince' (or one of his cousins), who's job it is to go around collecting items by rolling a sticky ball (known as a Katamari) round each level at the request of his majesty the King or the Robo-King. The larger your Katamari becomes, the larger the objects you can pick up.. You will often have some sort of mission to complete, be it picking up certain types or a certain number of objects, reaching a target size within a set time-limit or simply making your Katamari as big as possible.. If you fail, you are punished, and then you try again.. and that's basically it.
The game looks cute, sounds fantastic and plays like a dream.. It has satisfying, simple to learn yet hard to master controls meaning that when you delicately curve your Katamari round a corner, following a line of items and hit every single one, you feel like a million bucks - even with the King's put-downs!! (seriously, you have to perfect a level to even get a compliment out of that guy!! ;^)
Warning, you may find yourself singing the soundtrack to yourself in the most inopportune places - i've been caught at work on at least two occasions already!!
Also it's the scale of the game, there are several levels where you start out at a size where you can fit through mouseholes, but end the level the size of a planet, picking up entire cities, mountain ranges or even continents!! Simply brilliant.
I have never played anything quite as addictive as Katamari Forever, and i'm not sure i ever will again. I have already lost a lot of sleep - and it doesn't look like i'm going to be getting any for the foreseeable future!
So, yes... All-out Japanese madness. It makes no sense, and in my opinion, the game KNOWS it makes no sense, which i think is why i love it, pardon the pun, but you just have to 'roll' with it!
So much fun! April 9, 2010
Muggy
Nothing I can add that the other reviewers haven't covered other than that this game is addictive. Really. At one point, I was thinking that I'd need some sort of surgical procedure to have the controller removed from my hands .... lots of fun, nothing offensive, weird humour, much satisfaction.
Awesome! January 28, 2010
NinjaPSPete (United Kingdom)
Just like its predecessors but much more fun this time round as you have the ability to jump! All in super lush HD too! ;)
Really nice game January 8, 2010
Rasmus Svendsen
My first Katamari game!
You roll the ball around picking up cheese, bicycles, harmonica, elephants and so on..
The maps are themed and you get different missions in each map but mostly you just have to roll your ball until it is very big.
I'm playing it with my girlfriend and she enjoys it too I think. We have yet to try co-op mode because we lack a second controller but I'm guessing co-op is fun too.
The drawback is that the handling is a bit funny to get used to, but you will adjust quickly I think.
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