Katamari Damacy

Katamari Damacy was released in 2004 for the Playstation 2 and has had several sequels across multiple platforms including Beautiful Katamari for the XBOX 360 and Katamari Forever for the Playstation 3.

The storyline for Katamari Damacy is hilarious.  The King of All Cosmos had too much to drink and accidently destroyed all the stars and other heavenly bodies.  Now the Prince has to fix this as soon as possible.  Armed with a Katamari, a strange ball that makes everything equal to or smaller than itself stick to it allowing it to grow, the Prince must travel to Earth and collect things in order to recreate the stars other heavenly bodies.

The gameplay for Katamari Damacy is surprisingly simplistic as the player simply uses both analog sticks to move the Katamari around.  Pushing both sticks up will move forward.  Pulling both sticks down will move backward.   Pushing one forward and pulling the other backward will steer left and right.  There are also some special moves like quick turns and speed dashes.  The player needs to aim for stuff equal to or smaller than the size of the Katamari in order for it to stick to the Katamari.  Once an item is stuck to the Katamari it is added to the total size of the Katamari but if the Katamari runs into an obstacle at too high a speed the Katamari could lose items and overall size.  At certain size intervals the Katamari will grow permanently and new areas will become available to the player.  This all sounds great right?  There is a catch.  All this has to be done within the time limits set by the King of All Cosmos and he isn’t very generous.  He wants this mess cleaned up as soon as possible.  So Good Luck and Happy Rolling.