Katamari Damacy
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This is neither a CRPG nor an adventure game. It's not even available for PC; the only reason I know about it at all is that I played
it on a friend's Playstation 2 (the only machine it runs on). It's one of the most innovative games to come along in years--the concept,
completely new to gaming, has to do with rolling up junk into a great, big wad, and making that wad bigger, and bigger, and bigger. It
sounds really lame, but it's not; it's the most addictive thing I've played since SimCity. I only relinquished the controls because
my friend's three-year-old wanted them back, and then I just sat and watched him play. The CGI is really something in this game--
the ball rolls realistically differently when there's something irregularly shaped stuck to it, and since there are thousands of different objects
in this game, watching it go does not get boring. Kids love the bright colors, accessible gameplay, and vivid music even more than adults
do. I personally found the stupid "all your bases are belong to us!" intentionally mistranslated Japanese camp in this game painfully
unfunny, but somehow still found myself wishing I had a Playstation to buy this for. If it ever comes out for PC, I'm all over it.
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