Katamari Soul

One day, when I was in Japan, one guy of the same lab as me was showing a video he'd found on the internet. It was about a video-game. I couldn't find out the title at that time, but it surely was interesting. You are a tiny little... thing? Anyway, a tiny little thing that pushes around some kind of ball that is highly adhesive, capable of grabbing anything smaller than itself. That ball is called katamari (in Japanese it means something like lump, chunk or block). Grabbing objects, the ball gets bigger and can capture bigger objects.

Simple gameplay, a storyboard that is not amazing, but with some interesting lines. A game that can make one play for hours... and it's funny! That's "We ♥ Katamari" ("みんな大好き塊魂"). A completely nonsense game, one of the kind "turn your brain off and relax".

The most interesting thing so far? A stage where the katamari gets so big, that it grabs mountains, ground (yes... you've read that right), going through buildings, monuments (like the Eiffel Tower, White House and Osaka Castle), Godzilla, clouds, satellites and UFOs. Let's take over the world!!!

Well, I found that game this week at a game corner here and bought it because I remembered the video I saw in Japan. But the fun will have to wait until exams are over...