We Love Katamari REROLL + Royal Reverie Official Site
Hey it’s the next game I beat! All under the cut and nope I’m not skipping any at all, honest…
Okay that was a lie
There’s pretty good reason why there’s not a blog post for Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting. It’d be shorter than this Katamari review. Here I’ll do it now
Whoa it’s more Vampire Survivors except AMONG US WHOA. It plays exactly like Vampire survivors with a little twist by adding some “tasks” to the Polus Replica stage. The new characters can be extremely OP and so can the weapons, but that’s the fun thing about Vampire Survivors so hell yeah.
There done. “But DO, I can clearly see Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero – Part 2: The Indigo Disk is beaten there”, YES WELL, I do have a post set up for me to fill out (no really I do) however not long afterwards on the 20th of December, Pokémon announced the Epilogue to the DLC where the Original Gang visit Kitakami, and I have my doubts that it’ll only be Kitakami we’ll see there (or even a potential second epilogue at the Blueberry Academy) so I’m going to hold off on posting that until probably Pokémon Day 2024 (2023-02-27).
Anyway back to the actual post.
When they first announced Katamari Damacy REROLL I was legitimately hoping for a We Love Katamari REROLL. It was great getting to play the remake of the original game as it was never released in Europe (and I also got in to the series late whoops) but I could clearly tell that it was lacking things that I guess were introduced in WLK, like how even the slightest bump would be counted as a crash to the Katamari in contrast to WLK where you had a little leeway. Granted unlike the original Katamari Damacy I do actually own a copy of the original PS2 game!
Thanks for the sticker CEX… I’d take it off but those stickers are near impossible to remove
But while I do own a SCART to HDMI converter etc. it is a faff to make sure the PS2 is set up, the controllers all plugged in and so on. It’s a faff, so I was really looking forward to them actually doing a remake, sorry I mean REROLL, to bring what is to some the best Katamari game (I’m sure who you’ll ask that’ll change. I think I prefer Forever though) to modern consoles and Steam.
And from there well, the game is nearly exactly the same as the original. Some have claimed that this is “lazy” and the like, but honestly given how distinctly out there the Katamari games are, I think it’s fine to forward port the game with a bit of extra polish. Technically you could claim the REROLL games are “remasters” more than “remakes”, but I doubt that Bandai Namco had all the original assets laying around to hand to MONKEYCRAFT that aren’t HD assets from Katamari Forever (if they even had those assets laying around, Bamco’s done VERY little with Katamari between Forever and KDR which weren’t mobile games) so assets likely will have had to be remade.
I got the Cowbear though!
However I say “nearly” on purpose. There is an extra mode of five additional stages that are based on the King of All Cosmos’ memories when he was a young prince under the tutorship of his father, then King of All Cosmos now Former King of All Cosmos. These are more difficult missions than the standard game, which is appreciated even if I was very bad at them.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand. That’s it! Beyond this, and some DLC that adds in two dress up costumes (a little prince and a little king to hang off your antenna) and additonal music from the rest of the series (including Katamari on the Funk and Everlasting Love + You) nothing else is changed. Which given it’s not at full price like a modern game release now, is fine. Good work MONKEYCRAFT and letting me replay a game I love without a load of hassle.
