{"id":1208,"date":"2009-10-10T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:08:46","slug":"5-second-review-katamari-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Katamari Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/katamarydamacyforever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/katamarydamacyforever.jpg\" alt=\"katamarydamacyforever\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/katamarydamacyforever.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/katamarydamacyforever-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Platform:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Playstation 3<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Developer:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Namco Bandai<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Namco Bandai<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>ime flies.\u00a0 This franchise has been out for five years already?\u00a0 <em>Katamari Forever<\/em> brings the franchise over to the Playstation3 for the first time with the formula mostly unchanged.\u00a0 You play as The Prince, forever trying to please his unloving and aloof father, The King of the Cosmos, by rolling around a sticky &#8216;katamari&#8217; ball picking up objects of an increasingly larger scale.<\/p>\n<p>The story, as ever, is completely off-the-wall.\u00a0 This time, The King of the Cosmos has lapsed into a coma and has been replaced by a Robo-King doppleganger who suffers from anxiety.\u00a0 This splits the various stages in two:\u00a0 The King levels are thematically linked around getting larger and larger items to wake up The King by dropping them on his head.\u00a0 The Robo-King levels mix things up a bit by mixing up the objective of the level, with stages where you are tasked with watering a dessert or avoiding items that are bear or cow themed (its all very strange).<\/p>\n<p>Its been a few years since I played a Katamari game (We Love Katamari for PS2) and it was fun revisiting this franchise.\u00a0 The gameplay is mostly the same but I loved the sharp and stylized graphics and playful presentation in <em>Katamari Forever.<\/em> The game also pushes its mechanic to its most logical extreme which made me happy:\u00a0 in one of the final levels, you start out picking up small tennis-ball sized items and by the end, you are literally collecting stars, planets and entire galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform:\u00a0 Playstation 3 Developer:\u00a0 Namco Bandai Publisher:\u00a0 Namco Bandai Time flies.\u00a0 This franchise has been out for five years already?\u00a0 Katamari Forever brings the franchise over to the Playstation3 for the first time with the formula mostly unchanged.\u00a0 You play as The Prince, forever trying to please his unloving and aloof father, The King of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[413,414],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-katamari-damacy","tag-playstation3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14896,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/14896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}