Strange Game makes it to US Shores

Usually the Japanese don't send us the odd ones. Sometimes, however, they figure it will sell enough to translate some text and the packaging, when this happens we end up with a weird, but addictive, trip like Katamari Damacy. Sure we've all been through it, our father the King of the Cosmos, out on a trippy weekend bender, destroys all starts in the sky. Then, because he's too irresponsible to fix the problem himself, strongly suggests that I, his son, the prince, fix it. To add insult to injury his solution is to have me roll up everything I can into a ball, and when big enough he'll make a star out of it. Why is that injurious? He send me to Earth to do it. Not only does each level have trippy music, but when my ball o' junk is big enough he uses a trippy rainbow bridge to bring me back home.

In an interesting side note, you can tell that much of the Internet is committed to reviewing video games by googling Katamari, which doesn't seem to mean anything outside of this game. At the time of publishing this article roughly 215,000 pages are “hit” by that search, *all seemingly mentioning this game.

* All meaning 99%, there were a few others that seemed unrelated, but quickly forgotten in the onslaught of Katamari Damacy reviews.

Update: Roughly it means “Clump of Souls”

Update: The game retails for $19.95, the CD (an import) costs $29.95 most places.