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Katamari Damacy needs your love

The first time I ever saw Katamari Damacy I had one single thought, "I used to do that to my Lucky Charms!" So this week when it took me a whole five days after its release to find the game, I had to buy a box of Lucky Charms just to tide me over. 


Wheee! That looks delicious, but also slightly disturbing.


But that's really just a segue into a more important topic that has been mentioned by other people around here.

It took me five whole days to find Katamari Damacy in the Northern Virginia area. Although it showed up in both Gamestop and Electronics Boutique's computers, it was unavailable for preorder at any of my local stores. (Which is miraculous considering how much these companies love to whore out their preorders.) Then it didn't show up in any stores whatsoever until four days after it shipped. When it did, they sent three copies to one out of twenty stores in the area. While other stores claim to have copies on the way, it's absolutely inexcusable for a game not to appear in retail stores until a week after its release.

What's sad is that even though I was willing to drive some ways to get the remaining copy of the game at the one store that got it last week, too many other people aren't. And while I have genuinely enjoyed playing it so far, how can I recommend a game that will never be in stock? This is an easy game to recommend to people, because while it's really silly, it's still quite fun, and it's only twenty dollars. How can anyone go wrong buying it? Well they certainly can't if it's not around for them to buy.

It's just so unfortunate when I consider the string of games that are sitting on the shelves, unplayable, unrecommendable, and fully in stock. I hope Katamari sees some increased shipments after the guaranteed success of their first batch, the game certainly deserves as much.