Review: Gamespot
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Something about Beautiful Katamari feels a little bit...off. Not in a "this game is bad" kind of way, but more of a "haven't we done all this before?" kind of way. Beautiful Katamari is the fourth entry in Namco Bandai's utterly loopy franchise about space royalty, painstakingly laid-out clutter, and magical balls that roll up anything in their path into massive planet-replacing clumps, and it's quite a lot like its predecessors. Of course, that's not exactly a bad thing. The same cheery vibe and frequent ludicrousness from the previous games permeate every aspect of this newest installment. But at the same time, all that ludicrousness isn't quite as ludicrous anymore, now that it's been done so many times. Still, there's plenty of good-natured silliness and clump-making fun to be had in Beautiful Katamari, even if it is all too familiar.
Oct 17, 2007, 04:42 PM
