Katamari Damacy
Overview
Namco
is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...
for the PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
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video game console
Video game console
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. It was first released in Japan
Japan
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, and then later in South Korea
South Korea
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and North America
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. The game resulted from a school project from the Namco Digital Hollywood Game Laboratory, and was developed for less than $1 million. In designing Katamari Damacy, the development team aimed to maintain four key points: novelty, ease of understanding, enjoyment, and humor.
The game's plot concerns a diminutive prince on a mission to rebuild the star
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
s, constellation
Constellation
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s, and Moon
Moon
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, which were accidentally destroyed by his father, the King of All Cosmos.
Quotations
"Here we are. Earth. Full of things as usual."
"Woo, tangent."
"Maybe We'll invent a Cosmic Esperanto."
"So, we were thinking about working out."
"It is not your fault. It is our fault for believing in you."
"Sending Things to Earth - trees... elephants... hopes... dreams..."
"The prince broke up the moon he just made. Rich people sure are different."