weirdly ok? it feels like the devs had no idea what katamari was about and sorta made the game about it somehow. like if someone was like "well katamari is quirky. we gotta make this game quirky" and it kind of worked out. kind of.

the rear touchpad mechanic feels so natural though?? like i think i expected it to be gimmicky and only to excuse the touchpad's existence, but it felt really good to stretch the katamari in order to do stuff. almost to the point where after playing this i missed this mechanic in other katamari games for a while

i really genuinely love the soundtrack for this one. it feels so fresh and having listened to the entire library of katamari soundtracks this one is almost on the same level of the first two games. fresh!