![]() ![]() His approval is hard-earned but if you do make a suitably impressive Katamari in a level he will break from his usual distant and belittling commentary and lavish your work with praise. The King of All Cosmos is an aloof and unusual individual, at once fascinated with Earth and its people but rather harsh with his son despite him doing all the work. Depending on the level these stars can be mere centimeters in length or hundreds of kilometers and what they’re comprised of can be incredibly specific or rather broad, the King always on hand to judge your work afterwards. To do so requires a fair bit of mass though, so giving his son a sticky ball called a Katamari, he instructs him to roll up objects around Earth until the ball is big enough to serve as a star. In this PS2 title, the absolutely enormous King of All Cosmos has accidentally destroyed all the stars in the sky while cavorting around space one day, and to put things back to normal, he calls upon his absolutely tiny son, the Prince, to recreate the stars. Katamary Damacy’s name essentially means a clump of spirits or souls, the name already hinting at what the gameplay entails. It wasn’t exactly a show of faith from the Japanese publisher to release it, but by telling Japan they wanted to see this wonderfully creative game it was the American market saying they were happy to embrace eccentric ideas and games steeped in other cultures, the door to more open game exchange pushed open a bit wider by this unusual game about rolling up the world into one big ball. release after the media, industry professionals, and even players kept requesting it of Namco. ![]() This attitude even extended to games that were just “too weird” for America, and while there are probably sales charts and statistics to back up the mindsets of the time, there are also games like 2004’s Katamari Damacy where a wonderfully strange concept in a game filled with unguarded references to Japanese culture received a U.S. Elements of Japanese culture were scrubbed and replaced when they could be, but just as often it lead to games deemed “too Japanese” from ever heading Stateside. Despite the Nintendo, Sega, and PlayStation consoles all being Japanese in origin though, for quite a while there seemed to be an unusual bit of trepidation in selling certain Japanese products to American audiences. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.After the reign of Atari came to an end, Japanese video game developers become the new king of the industry. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. ![]() If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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