![]() ![]() ![]() Once old mate sends the Prince to Earth you’ll be rolling around a magical orb that gathers items of increasing size and mass in an attempt to rebuild the stars. Look, it’s hardly Shakespeare but he is historically overrated anyway and Reroll doesn’t exactly need pathos to make rolling the titular Katamari fun. The core story beats between the Prince and his dad were amusing connective tissue but I was living for these often brief moments where I could check back in with the young brother and sister who were trying to convince their mother to care about the galaxy collapsing. While all of this is going on high above their heads, you’ll also follow along with the adventures of a family in between missions. Turns out, while he and his mates were reliving their heyday, they destroyed the stars themselves and now you’ll need to travel to Earth to collect everyday objects to burn up and replace them. You play as The Prince, son of said father, the King of All Cosmos, who tasks you with essentially cleaning up the galaxy after him and the boys get a little too wasted one night. Controlling the Katamari is still the same mix of frustration and elation.It’s not quite right to say that Reroll has a plot, more so a loosely connected series of events and one belligerent father figure at its core. There’s less of a straight structure for when you take on a level, and there’s second bites of the cherry to be had in many of them once you’ve finished the first objective. The levels take on a familiar feel to those in Katamari Damacy, but with the new twists on what you have to do peppering the setup, it feels a lot more varied and interesting than before. It’s a little disheartening at times, but it’s not really meant to be the true judgement of your Katamari-creating skills, just another way of getting across the high standards the King and his subjects have. Even going above and beyond what is expected of you in a request can still see you met with underwhelmed responses. The bar tends to be set even higher for demands this time too. I found this aspect quite amusing because it turns that dry scorn of the King of All Cosmos inward and picks holes in the game being liked and loved in a self-deprecating manner. And gives a bit of explanation for the cycle of wanting to please a parent no matter how they treat you. It’s pretty corny and obvious storytelling (strict and demanding father had a strict and demanding father), but the payoff is actually very sweet. Even the people of Earth are in on the act this time.īut tucked within this remaster is a side story and bonus levels that examine the King’s relationship with his own father. This series is among the most delightfully absurd things I’ve ever played and its daftness is an endearing quality.īut you are left to sort of wonder why the Prince even bothers when he gets no credit and plenty of talking down to. It’s the whole damn point of Katamari in fact. The hard work is done and now you gotta do more just because that’s what people want and the King is extremely keen to pander to the sycophantic whims of his adoring public. ![]() ![]() It’s almost unsurprising that in the sequel, set in the aftermath of the first game, sees the King take the credit for the Prince’s hard work, and humanity generally agrees with that. ![]()
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