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| |  Affiliate Review:bit-tech News: Beautiful Katamari (European Release)
bit-tech News: Beautiful Katamari (European Release)  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by bit-tech.net |  | | | | | | | | |
"The unique approach taken to the art design and game premise for Beautiful Katamari is equally fascinating and entertaining. There?s a real sense that an enormous amount of effort went in to creating this weirdly attractive and colourful world, as well as making the game as accessible and appealing as possible.
Unfortunately, that effort has always been properly targeted and there is some scar tissue that mars the brilliance of Beautiful Katamari. Multiplayer and co-op especially are a little lack lustre and, while multiplayer suffers mainly from a lack of imagination, co-op gaming is just an exercise in frustration. Two people controlling one ball just doesn?t work.
There?s also a huge amount of dialogue to wade through, mainly from the King and having him pop up and dominate the screen in the middle of the game is just plain stupid and requires players to forego Katamari control to dismiss him. The dialogue itself is witty, peculiar and pleasant enough not to offend, but we question why the text speech is overlaid with horrible scratching sounds that slowly irritated us more than needles stuck in our teeth.
The lack of autosave is a frankly massive oversight too and one by one we each fell victim to this omission, abandoning unsaved content by mistake.
Beautiful Katamari is a fun game and one that pretty much every family would do well to have in their household as it?ll effortlessly woo and seduce any and all onlookers into playing it. Small children, parental non-gamers and the hardcore PC-playing master race ? all will be rolled up in Beautiful Katamari?s wake. The game itself is far from perfect though and there are numerous flaws that, while never destroying the fun of the game, so occasionally mar it."
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