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 enormous, 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 huge as you may.
With barely totally different targets per stage, odd little cutscenes to get pleasure from, and easy world maps to discover, this can be very acquainted to followers of the sequence in all the suitable methods.
Nonetheless, this iteration actually comes into its personal when it is attempting 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 enables for a superb number of phases, as we undergo numerous historic intervals — feudal Japan, historic Greece, the Stone Age, and extra current gamers with numerous attention-grabbing settings and objects to roll up.
It is an awesome thought executed effectively, and with all of the humour you’d count on from the sequence.
On prime of that may 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 rapidly develop your katamari.
There’s the rocket, which will increase your velocity, a timer that pauses shifting objects and creatures, and a radar that reveals the placement of collectibles and different vital gadgets.
These are neat additions that slot in properly.
Apart from that, just about what you are getting right here — it is one other Katamari recreation, and fortuitously it is a good one.
On PS5, it additionally has crisp, vibrant visuals and a clean body charge of 60 frames per second. We did not discover any inconsistencies there.
Very similar to the remasters earlier than it, As soon as Upon a Katamari is a good reminder that there is nonetheless nothing fairly like this sequence, and it feels as contemporary right this moment because it did with Keita Takahashi’s unique over 20 years in the past.
