Very disappointing for a Katamari fan
posted by MrHaru (VIRGINIA BEACH, VA) Oct 21, 2012
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Katamari Forever. Holy cow what a huge disappointment. SO MUCH in fact I physically could not complete the game.
...no seriously, but I tried!
Usually Katamari is designed to look like 2 hours at a playground and childcare center filled with toddlers: lots of things just thrown about and it's MESSY AND CLUTTERED. That's what makes finding things to roll up so strangely satisfying and addicting. This is still true for this game.
Until you get to the last few levels where you are redoing older levels in older Katamari games where instead of having an idea of where to go (because things are so cluttered together you can see what else you haven't picked up) the majority of the items/clutter is spread thin. I got so many "Game Over" screens and it was all because of how terribly placed all the items were. If it were just legitimately a hard level with a different kind of objective I'd get it, but you can't tell me that you granted me a new area to explore and...ugh.
I've played a lot of Katamari and what I'm saying is basically the design minds in this one is EXTREMELY frustrating. ...and y'know, I'd REALLY like this game more if it didn't tell me to go fudge myself for doing the best I could. I get that The King of The Cosmos is supposed to always be pissy and never happy with anything under 100 or 120 scored levels but it's hard finding the joy to try and continue playing when I am literally still being verbally beaten down like it's still supposed to be funny. In reality that's just a nitpick, but it adds to the frustration of dealing with Katamari Forever.
Even the initially appealing visuals of the game eventually irritated me because it felt like a cheap filter put over the screen, and I was not a fan of the B&W levels either.
So it's a shame I won't be buying this game because I seriously had high hopes for it. How could the quality of the game drop so drastically from Beautiful Katamari for the 360??! I don't get it!!
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