Katamari Damacy

[dave is ok]

I only have the wig, I'm playing through again trying to find them all though. The wig (for anyone that doesnt have it) is on the 'Make the North Star' level, through some woods, but a cave entrance surrounded by fires.

[Timber]

I just made a $22 profit on this game!

Picked it up at best buy for $15 on Friday, put up a 3 day listing and bam, my copy is paid for. I'm buying another tomorrow to see if I can get away with it again.


someone stole my image and got $11 less

[MarsKitten]

Just got it and here's my impressions. Graphics are not as sharp as they could be but that's entirely forgivable. The soundtrack (adorable and fun), story (absurd in a good way), and gameplay (simple but you WILL play till your eyes bleed) are all top notch.

I'm suprised and glad (cause i don't own any, anymore) this didn't hit a nintendo console first.

Anyone able to roll all 193 countries? (yes the vatican city and taiwain are rollable)

[James]

I think it's 195, actually. I know I managed 100% but it was days ago, I forget what the actual count was. If there's a reward for it I don't know what it is beyond the warm fuzzy feeling you get from 100%.

James

[danhaigh]

It's all luck, I'm telling you.

The first time I did it I got 878m like I said, but I didn't get every little thing so I thought I could do even better. But since then, playing in Eternal I've never toped 860m, even after I've picked up completely everything.

I think this has been covered elsewhere, but in case it's still an open question: you cannot grab everything at the biggest size. As your katamari grows, smaller objects disappear. When you are large enough to pick up a car, you can no longer snag the thumbtacks you were grabbing at the beginning. Grabbing a house full of stuff is not equivalent to grabbing every single object inside the house and then later grabbing the (empty) house itself.

Therefore, if you rapidly grow the katamari, you sacrifice total material. This frankly means that the better you are at the game, the smaller your final katamaris are likely to be, as you'll transition quickly to larger objects rather than spending a lot of time picking up small stuff. It's not luck that's causing your variation, it's skill.

The game balances the competing goals (size and speed) with the two different level types. Besides the eternal goals, the star levels are essentially speed-driven. After clearing the level, the only additional goal is the shooting-star time. The constellation levels are focused more on size. You need to be large enough by the time limit to grab the biggest goal objects. Of course, none of the supplemental goals are particularly challenging but KD ain't exactly gourmet fare.

[James]

I just noticed I've unlocked a movie/music player. I have no idea how or when I did that.

Too bad they don't actually have the intro movie with King of All Cosmos knocking all the stars out of the sky in there. We've got the full saga of the Deadpan family meeting up with the father, and all the "I feel the cosmos" bits, but no killing the stars. Strange.

James

[Jeremy]

Beating it unlocks the music and movie player, with some button stuff getting the other things viewable. I love the music player, very handy.

[Opaque]

I think this has been covered elsewhere, but in case it's still an open question: you cannot grab everything at the biggest size. As your katamari grows, smaller objects disappear. When you are large enough to pick up a car, you can no longer snag the thumbtacks you were grabbing at the beginning. Grabbing a house full of stuff is not equivalent to grabbing every single object inside the house and then later grabbing the (empty) house itself.

Therefore, if you rapidly grow the katamari, you sacrifice total material. This frankly means that the better you are at the game, the smaller your final katamaris are likely to be, as you'll transition quickly to larger objects rather than spending a lot of time picking up small stuff. It's not luck that's causing your variation, it's skill.

I can easily debunk this. The first time I did the moon I was at 878m after about 21 minutes. I went very fast and only got like 1,400 objects. The other day I treid to go very slowly on eternal and get as many small little objects as I could to pad my Katamari, after about an hour I had a Katamari that was 835m and had 1950 objects.it's not how many objects you get, it's something else. I don't know what yet.

[MechDeus]

Where do you tell your count/percentage for the countries during the credits? I'm sure it's somewhere obvious but I couldn't find it when I looked right afterwards.

[MarsKitten]

Where do you tell your count/percentage for the countries during the credits? I'm sure it's somewhere obvious but I couldn't find it when I looked right afterwards.

oh i just looked up the amount of countries in the world, 193 + antartica (forgot about that)

Some reason this game makes me think about earthbound alot.