Katamari Damacy

[avram]

As if I didn’t have enough distractions, something new: Katamari Damacy for the PS2. People were playing it at feiran’s party at bigscary’s place last night, and it looked so cool and charming that I had to get a copy, especially since it’s only $20. The GameSpot review sums it up pretty well. You play an anthropomorphic dung beetle, rolling a sticky sphere around, collecting objects that make your sphere bigger and bigger. You start out tiny, collecting coins and nail polish bottles and shogi tiles, and wind up huge, grabbing up buildings, ocean liners, kaiju, entire islands. Amazing, bizarre fun, and a catchy soundtrack. You’ll want to play with vibrating controllers, for the tactile feedback as you run over and into things.