Video Games : Me and My Katamari

In association with Amazon.com
  

from: Namco

: Me and My Katamari

Price: $45.00
Prices subject to change.



Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
More Information



Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Namco
EAN: 0722674150071
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: Namco
Manufacturer: Namco
Model: 722674150071
Platform: Sony PSP
Publisher: Namco
Release Date: August 08, 2006
Sales Rank: 3485
Studio: Namco

Features:

Accessories: Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The King of All Cosmos takes a break from celestial construction and takes the royal family on vacation to a tropical island paradise. Here, they become tasked with the responsibility of creating new katamari islands for homeless animals. The King's pint-sized son, the Prince, is called upon for this epic task with the help of all his cousins. Assume the role of the pint-sized prince and grow your katamari by rolling it around cleverly designed locations to collect objects throughout the world.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - I know not many people will agree with me on this but...
I liked this version better than the PS2 version. Admittedly I played this one first before I ever even knew that PS2 had a version, so the excitement of first playing the game may be attributed to my love of the PSP version over the PS2 version. But whatever the cause I enjoyed this one more, and here's why.

This game is so simplistic it's just a blast. It belongs on the PSP because of its simple graphics and easy to play on the go gameplay. Both the PS2 and PSP versions have very simple storylines that don't require your full attention to just play the game. The King of the Cosmos went surfing while on vacation and ended up accidentally destroying all of the land on the planet he was on. You now have to roll your katamari around and collect items to rebuild the islands and such. Very similar to the PS2 version in fact, this ported over to the PSP so well that it lacks almost nothing the PS2 version has. The music and graphics are even the same. The only difference that most people will notice that have played both versions is that of entering levels. The PSP version has a shockingly funny way of entering levels where the prince is slingshot into the distance and appears to be hitting the King's crotch. I fell out of my chair laughing when I first saw this.

If I had to have one complaint about the PSP version it's that your thumbs will hurt...a lot, because of the controls. It's impossible just to push lightly on the directional pad and buttons to steer the katamari. You'll find yourself pushing harder on the buttons to try and make it go faster or something and your hands will kill you.

I don't know, I'm sure lots of people are going to continue to misuse the "helpful" vote link by clicking no on me simply because they disagree and not because my review wasn't helpful, but I don't care. The PSP version is well worth a try in my opinion and lacks nothing from the PS2 version.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Katamari does it again!
This is a great game, it's pointless, fun, and will have you playing it for hours. If you've played the others you'll love this one and if you've never played a katamari game just buy this one and start. The game is simple roll and collect things, I know it sounds a little boring but it really isn't. the game itself is sort of long and the eternal levels are good but the controls take some getting used to if you've played the others but if you're a newcomer it;ll be easy. Highly recommended for anyone with a psp.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great PSP Game
I have played the other katamari games and enjoy this one just as much. The gameplay is addicting. The controls are simple, though they take a while to get used to. I enjoyed the game and the bonus for beating it. I highly recommend this game to all psp owners


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Poor Camera, Poor Controls
Me and My Katamari PSP brings the fun world of Katamari ball rolling to the PSP. You would think this would be the ultimate, non-violent fun game to play on your handheld for hours. The developers just didn't do their job properly, though.

The basics, if you've never played a Katamari game, is that you're a young prince rolling a "sticky ball" around. You are surrounded by objects of various sizes and types. So let's say you play a level that's a kid's room. There will be little lego shapes, big pencils, and all sorts of other items. When your sticky ball is small, it can only grab onto the little things. As you roll it up and it gets bigger, it can now grab onto larger things.

It's a simple concept, but in practice it's great fun. One creature might only want "hard" objects so you have to avoid sticking the non-hard things and only go after hard things. Your aims usually involve a combination of what to get, how big to get your ball, and how much time you have.

There are different characters to get to, and different costumes, but really, it's all about ball rolling and fun, catchy music. This game is a huge hit on other platforms. Just how could they have not made this a fantastically fun game to play while riding on the bus?

The answer is in the camera and controls. First, the camera. Really, the game only involves ball rolling. There aren't fast paced action battles or complex graphics. You would think if the only task developers had was to show you rolling a ball, that they could do this properly. Unfortunately, the camera is just awful. There were numerous times that the camera swung around into a position that had a wall blocking my vision, and I had to try to figure out how to move my character to get unstuck. With a timer clicking, this could easily mean the difference between success and failure.

So, you'd think, if all you do is push a ball that the controls would be simple, right? Wrong! I had SO much trouble with both the controls and with the placement of key commands. I kept hoping that practice would get me used to them. After all, I play a ton of PSP games and never really have this issue on other games. When it became obvious that the longer I played, the more sore my fingers got, it really became clear that the control layout was just poorly done. If it was a PSP inherent thing, I'd have this problem all the time. I don't - it's just this game.

There really was so much potential here for fantastic fun, and I feel very disappointed. Maybe Katamari is simply not a game meant to be on the PSP and I'll have to stick with my other PSP games. I'll give it a 3 for great concept - but very poor implementation.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - bad control scheme, difficult objectives ruin an otherwise fun game
This was the first game I bought for my PSP system and I wanted to like it so much. I enjoyed the first PS2 Katamari Damacy, despite the flaws in that game. I would have expected that by the third installment in this series, some of the kinks would have been worked out... and that this version would be better customized to the PSP's unique control scheme. BUT, this game has the worst, most counter-intuitive controls of almost any game I've played. Seriously, they suck. I have tried playing it a dozen times, and still can't really remember the exact key combo to just move forward, back, left and right! You have to press both a directional button and the right side control buttons (and sometimes a trigger) simultaneously to do most any basic movement in this game. This makes no sense. This game should be so simple, but the controls are needlesly complicated. The camera also really gets in the way. It is a royal pain to try to maintain rolling in a straight line, or to do a simple turn, and often you end up with a wall or object between your character and the camera, and you can't see what you are doing at all. This is something that easily could have been remedied by the developers after 3 games, by making these object go transparent or automatically moving the camera past obstacles.

I also find that the instructions given in the tutorials and the actual missions are frustratingly vague or just badly translated. This is a additional challenge since you can't figure out which items fit the needs you are meant to fulfill until after you've picked them up. You'll find yourself cursing trying to figure out what items are considered 'bright' or 'hard', etc. to fulfill the missions.

On the positive side, if you do figure out the controls, and do know how to gather the proper items, and progress through the game, I imagine it is pretty fun. I love the opening and cutscene graphics, the music, the quirky style of it, and (bad controls aside) the levels design is pretty good, and they have alot of unique objects to collect. But I am unsure how many people will have the patience to completley master this game just in order to play even a little way through it.

I do recommend the PS2 Katamari games over this one. The controls on those are not perfect, but much better than this PSP version. Hopefully a PS3 Katamari game is in the works, and the developers will address some of these issues plaguing the series so far.

This game is at least worth renting to check it out. If you like wierd Japanese games and really like a challenge, you might enjoy this game more than I did.

see more


More Information
Browse for similar items by category:

 

HOME

Credit Cards - Free Ringtone - Wester Union - Credit Card - Loans