Katamari Taters

[mikailborg]

After reading about the fun that kittykatya, eeedge, jsciv and impink are having, I put a copy of Katamari Damacy (PS2) on my Wish List, and raininva bought it for my birthday. This game is incredibly surreal and trippy, and has that wonderful "let me just try this level one more time" quality. The player must rebuild stars by rolling together clumps of loose objects on Earth - you have to try it out to understand it. Highly recommended.

Finished watching the Brent Spiner episodes of Enterprise. Pretty good overall, with the last episode the strongest. Despite its enjoyability, the arc hit some of the most tiresome cliches in Star Trek: "it only takes five guys to take over a Starfleet vessel", "with the fate of humanity at stake, we'll nevertheless give the bad guys all the access codes they want if they threaten one of the show's stars", "the Enterprise isn't worth diddly in a real fight unless the heroes know their opponent's Secret Weak Point(tm)". Yes, they all made sense in the story context, I'm just tired of seeing them again.

The Meyers-Briggs-Trek personality test says that I'm an INFP, much like Kes or Elim Garak. Rain's response was "Garak? Eww! Well... hm. Actually..."

"Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew..." - Sam Gamgee rapping about taters.

Comments

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Katamari has been quite fun for all of us at my office, too (I'm sure I mentioned it somewhere in addition you your other friends...), although now that Ratchet is out we're hoping people play it. :)

One of the things that's nice about it vs. some of the others is that you can just drop it in for a few minutes and do one or two Katamaris if necessary, whereas popping in GTA or Halo 2 or something requires a decent amount of time to be set aside. For a game that retails at $20, you really can't go wrong with it, though. I do have to agree with the one criticism: I wish it were longer.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

That's right, I knew I had left out a Damacy player. And the short levels are great for just the reasons you say - I'm way behind on a bunch of PS and Mac games because I don't have 3-4 hour blocks of time to spend on them right now.

I've been thinking about picking up Ratchet, I've heard good reviews of it. I'll take another look :)