First off Alex you are not one of my favorite gamespot people anymore!!!! 7.5 is not acceptable! More later....
Holy Hornbeam!
So, I got the call yesterday that Beautiful Katamari had arrived at my boyfriend's desk at Gamespot, I was beyond excited to get out of work yesterday thinking of seeing my little prince and all the darling cousins! So, 5pm rolled around and I was out like a shot. Stopped to get some staples for dinner, and then straight to the house for Katamari pleasure. First off I have never played on the XBOX, I think partially because I was afraid of it and the whole online aspect of it. I mean everyone that plays/ owns an XBOX is probably a seriously good gamer. I am a peasant when it comes to gaming except for when it comes to Katamari, I fell in love with this game 2 years ago I had never experienced a game that completely captured my dark little heart. I just could not get over how visually stunning,this little game was and how simple and fun.
Anyway, upon slipping the disc into the XBOX, I was thinking is the music going to be as good as the last one, what are the worlds going to be like,what are the new cousins going to look like and of course THE PRESENTS!!!!! I love the presents, it is my favorite part of the game finding them dressing up the prince I just love the whole adventure. Well, I was not disappointed... There he was the king in all his glory swinging a tennis racket and breaking the cosmos again, this time making a black hole. He still has a ginormous ego, although he does make some endearing remarks to the prince that I picked up on. I started off with the tutorial "Egg School"this whole controller for the XBOX took me a bit to get use to, but I was getting the hang of it, lots of new things to pick up puzzle pieces which is the floor and looks like your going to fall into space,everything looks brighter and more diminsional maybe that is because of the XBOX I really liked it.
The prince has his own "Princedom" which is sort of like his own little world he has a cake that holds all the presents and when he walks around the sound from him walking is just the cutest thing ever, he can fly to other parts of his little world to go and explore. He has a "Monkey Train" I kept trying to get on and gave up, but Tyler jumped on it and took a ride. I can't remember some of the names of the other worlds, I need to play a few more times to memorize them. One has this house that has more bling in it than I have ever seen gold bars, rows of rings still in the jewel cases, giant diamond rings laying on the floor, lots to pick up. It does seem this time around that when you start in each world your sort of dropping into the world, where as before you started on the ground and you could begin rolling. It also seems that the first items you pick up are bigger this time around so you can make a bigger Katamari quicker.
More reviewing later :-)