As soon as Upon a Katamari brings again Bandai Namco’s cult basic franchise with an all-new recreation that feels ripped straight from its PS2 prime.
By and huge, this is identical Katamari Damacy insanity all of us fell in love with 20 years in the past — roll a ball round every stage, gathering up myriad objects to make it as massive as you’ll be able to.
With barely totally different aims per degree, odd little cutscenes to get pleasure from, and easy world maps to discover, this will likely be very acquainted to followers of the sequence in all the best methods.
Nevertheless, this iteration actually comes into its personal when it is making an attempt new stuff.
The entire premise of the sport sees the King of All Cosmos screw up time and area, sending the Prince again in time to revive order to the universe — and create new stars from katamaris whereas he is at it.
This permits for number of levels, as we undergo varied historic intervals — feudal Japan, historic Greece, the Stone Age, and extra current gamers with a lot of attention-grabbing settings and objects to roll up.
It is an amazing concept executed nicely, and with all of the humour you’d anticipate from the sequence.
On high of that could be a vary of recent power-ups, and these really feel like fairly pure extensions to the gameplay.
The magnet is an early favorite; it attracts all appropriately-sized objects to you inside a variety, permitting you to shortly develop your katamari.
There’s the rocket, which will increase your velocity, a timer that pauses transferring objects and creatures, and a radar that exhibits the situation of collectibles and different vital gadgets.
These are neat additions that slot in properly.
Aside from that, you recognize just about what you are getting right here — it is one other Katamari recreation, and luckily it is a good one.
On PS5, it additionally has crisp, vibrant visuals and a clean body fee of 60 frames per second. We did not discover any inconsistencies there.
Very like the remasters earlier than it, As soon as Upon a Katamari is a superb reminder that there is nonetheless nothing fairly like this sequence, and it feels as recent in the present day because it did with Keita Takahashi’s authentic over twenty years in the past.
