We Love Katamari

released on Jul 06, 2005

We Love Katamari, is a third-person puzzle-action video game where the player controls the Prince, the 5-centimeter-tall son of the god-like entity the King of All Cosmos, who rolls around a "katamari", a magical ball that causes objects smaller than it to attach to it. Throughout each level, the play must collect objects in order to fulfill objectives set by the prince's father.


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a perfect sequel to an already phenomenal game, we love katamari takes everything damacy did, cranks it up to 11, brings tons of new ideas to the table, gives it a fresh new coat of paint, provides some all new bangin tracks, gives a huge selection of playable characters, and fixes up a lot of the issues with the physics of the original. if you're gonna play one katamari game, have it be this one, it's absolutely worth your time.

Yet another comfort game. I can’t be in a bad mood when I play it. It’s a near perfect sequel. Almost every issue with the original is ironed out. The main thing is that it’s more varied, but it’s also got better level design, is more stylish in its presentation, has better writing, a better soundtrack (I would argue it’s better, at least). Has one of my favourite manuals too. I’ll cherish this game forever.

CARA, QUE JOGO BOM, QUE JOGO GOSTOSO
Nada melhor do que tu sair rolando sua katamari por cima do fodendo Taj Mahal muito foda, ou então pela fodendo Torre Eiffel... E depois ir rolar por cima de 1000 origamis dentro de uma escola, porque isso claramente faz sentido
É aquele jogo japonês experimental muito único e que não vis atrazer dificuldades e stress ao jogador, mas sim o oposto, e ele me trouxe um sentimento muito nostalgico, mas talvez isso seja um certo viés da minha parte, afinal, eu amo o PS2. Mas isso é um fator primordial, sem dúvidas para a minha opinião. Eu AMO Katamari. E agora posso dizer isso, eu literalmente gostei demais desse jogo. Já é top 5 jogos de PS2 pra mim e um dos melhores que zerei esse ano (veremos se o melhor). Sei que tem o remake, e algum dia, pretendo comprá-lo, junto do remake do Damacy. E a história do Rei dos Cosmos é muito comovente. :v

they should make katamari damacy real

Quite some time ago, I was told by word of mouth that We Love Katamari was the best of the Katamari games. Such was why I held off on getting the other 3 games in the series that came out after it. Though I have not played Katamari Forever yet, of the original 4 games that all have original level content, I can say that We Love Katamari is definitely the best.

Musically I'm probably the least big fan of this one. It does have some new tracks, but it largely reuses music from the first game. My only gripe with that is that I don't really care for a good chunk of the new tracks, and some of my favorites from the first game (the original Katamari on the Rocks theme, Que Sara Sara) aren't present in this one :/ . It's a tiny gripe, but I gotta throw it out there as it was basically my only real problem with the game.

The controls and physics have been cleaned up a TON from the first game. You don't get thrown around nearly as much, mostly due to better level design and not so much that you can't be thrown around (believe me, you can). You can also climb stairs and surfaces MUCH more easily than the first game (which was a major problem), and you also don't lose items nearly as easily when you bump into stuff. Cleaning up these mechanics really makes the game far more user friendly and fun to play, and very quickly puts it objectively head and shoulders above the original.

Where this game really shines, even over it's console sequel, is level variety. There are quite a lot of stages, but more importantly, they all take place in very different locations. Not only are there just a lot of geographically unique locations that they take place in, but the item variety and mission variety is also good enough that even when you're technically somewhere that you've rolled in before, it doesn't feel like it (This is a problem that SUPER plagues the PSP game, but the 360 game to a lesser extent (which is the biggest shame, because the on-disc DLC really neuters that game's content level :/ )).

Verdict: Highly recommended. If you're gonna play just one Katamari game of the original ones, play We Love Katamari. It has fantastic level variety and mechanics, and is really one of the best presentations you can experience the game's admittedly repetitive gameplay.

improves on tons of gameplay stuff from the original and also has this hilarious element of metafiction going on with the story. namco literally told takahashi they would make a sequel with or without him so he made the whole concept of the game doing fan service (which is essentially what the game is in itself—unnecessary fan service). if you mess up fans will literally say "man katamari damacy is overrated tbh, mid game" and it's so funny. it's kinda subversive for critiquing namco making a franchise out of a one-off fun game that happened to get popular and i love it