Katamari Damacy and Katamari Damacy 2

I just played through Katamari 2 on the switch, but I played it way back on PS2. I always like Katamari 1 better.

Katamari 2 tried a lot of new things, like keeping the katamari on fire by continuously rolling things up, or trying to roll it to a specific size. None of them were bad, but they were not particularly fun.

Most importantly, the music from Katamari 1 is so much better. Those songs have been ingrained in my brain since I was a child. I still um/sing them around the house.

After finishing Katamari 2, I booted up Katamari 1 and immediately it felt like the movement was a bit quicker.

I think the next Katamari release was on the 360. I am not sure if that was the final release. I hope we get a remaster of it as I would like to see how it changed due to the increased power of that console generation.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I love this series. We Love Katamari (2nd one) is my favorite. The first one has a lot less stuff to roll up and you often have to follow a more linear path to be able to get big enough in time. Beautiful Katamari (the 360 one) is still playable on Xbox One and Series X via backwards compatibility. It works on PC via the emulator Xenia, too, but crashes a lot. Katamari Forever, the PS3 one that is kind of a "best of" with stages from the first 3 console games, works really well with the emulator RPCS3, though.

PredictiveTextNames,

Interesting, I really loved the second game and thought the new game modes were super fun.

Basically, I thought it improved and expanded upon the original in every way aside from the music. The KD2 remake has dlc for the original music though, so I did spring for that even though it should have just been included in the game in the first place.

Ideally, even though I bought and played and loved both remakes, they should have just been bundled together since neither is a particularly large game.

Berttheduck,

I did not know there was more than 1. I'm really enjoying the first one on switch though. Such a bonkers game, I agree with you on the music the first game has an excellent soundtrack.

GandalfDG,
@GandalfDG@beehaw.org avatar

Katamari is just such a gem of a game. Totally novel concept, amazing presentation, lots of replayability. Really hard to follow up on that

worfamerryman,

I agree with you 100%. Everything bout the first game was executed perfectly.

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