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 Hello, and welcome to Our Let's Play of Katamari Forever. We are very excited to get started, but We believe you should be educated on Our history first.  We think that Wikipedia might be able to produce an answer to this. quote:Katamari Forever, known in Japan as Katamari Damacy Tribute (塊魂TRIBUTE Katamari Damashii TRIBUTE), is a video game in the Katamari series. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 console in Japan on July 23, 2009, on September 22, 2009 in North America, and September 18, 2009 in Europe. A demo of the game became available on the Japanese PlayStation Network on its Japanese release date, and on the North American PlayStation Network on September 10, 2009.  Katamari Damacy: The Prince must rebuild the Heavens after We destroy the stars and moon. We Love Katamari: The Prince must appeal to his fans in order to appease Us. Me & My Katamari: The Prince must rebuild islands because We destroyed them. Katamari Damacy Mobile: Apparently this is a thing that exists? Beautiful Katamari: What is this horrible thing? Get it out of Our face. I Love Katamari: Another mobile game, this time for iOS. Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy: A DSiWare Pac-Attack clone. Yes. Katamari Forever: This game! We jump too high and bump Our head, so the Prince and his cousins build a RoboKing. Katamari Amore: Another iOS game. Touch My Katamari: We're just going to quote Wikipedia on this one: quote:One day, a boy asks his Dad "Who is more awesome, the King of All Cosmos or his principal?". When the dad is trying to make up his mind, the mom says they are both equally awesome. The king overhears the conversation. Shocked, he becomes a train wreck. Somewhere else, a slacker named Goro, who puts off studying for video games, television and the Internet, sees a news broadcast telling of the King's apparent depression. Goro believes that this is his moment to start his life anew, so he runs off to make a new lifestyle for himself.  So what was that about Cousins? Well, each Katamari game introduce a set of alternate characters to play as known as the cousins. We will be updating this post as We find them in the game.  Cousin Dangle: A cousin who has a fear of heights. Apparently, his hobby is observing ants' nests... Cousin Honey: A cousin who messes up just about everything she does. Oddly, she never screws up when nobody is looking at her. We have decided to allow co-commentators to grace Us with their presence. They have been given instructions to produce an image of themselves as a Cousin. We will update this section as new co-commentators join.  Blastinus graces Us with his... art. We have but two royal decrees for this thread: 1: No spoilers. Not even in black bars. You are free to discuss levels after they happen, but We don't want anyone ruining some of the amazing levels in this game. The only exception is Cowbear. You are allowed to hate Cowbear. 2: Be chill. Just because someone doesn't agree that Cowbear is the worst level doesn't mean they're wrong. (They are wrong, but this isn't the place to discuss that) With that out of the way, please enjoy the LP.  Episode One: Tutorial Episode Two: Make a Star 1 - Playtime Episode Three: Gingerbread House poorlywrittennovel fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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 Blind "Fred Durst" Sally graces the thread with beautiful music Nine-Gear Crow continues a theme FPzero reminds Us of Our love of the Boss Edit: I'd like to thank Nine-Gear Crow for all the lovely header images he made for me. poorlywrittennovel fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 13, 2015 05:07
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Best of luck with this, PW and not because I have a vested interest in this LP for any reason. 
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Jul 13, 2015 05:11
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I am excited, I love this game! And most Katamari games.
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Jul 13, 2015 05:13
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Looking forward to this! I've never seen a katamari game in action, but I've heard a lot about how silly they are.
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Jul 13, 2015 14:23
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I remember the Freelance Astronauts doing several streams of We Love Katamari though sadly only the first stream was recorded, here's the first video of that stream for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeJX9zb2O0
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Jul 13, 2015 14:46
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I suppose any retrospective of the series must include the infamous bearcows.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:41
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This is one of my favorite Katamari games. This and We Love are the best ones. Also I'm a big fan of most of the remixed / mashed up songs in this game. Question: Are we allowed to record our own attempts at breaking your records? Can we all compete against each other in a friendly manner?
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Jul 13, 2015 17:18
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kalonZombie posted:This is one of my favorite Katamari games. This and We Love are the best ones. Sure, go ahead. This LP is in no way a skilled run. I'm just going to try to show off the levels to the best of my ability.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:22
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poorlywrittennovel posted:Sure, go ahead. This LP is in no way a skilled run. I'm just going to try to show off the levels to the best of my ability. gently caress yeah. Gonna go practice my more favorite levels.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:23
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I actually like Beautiful Katamari... It's the 4th best in the series that I have played. The order I like is Katamari Forever, We Love Katamari, Katamari Damacy, Beautiful Katamari, Me & My Katamari, and finally I Love Katamari. The worst level in all the games is the Cowbear level. Or the cow level. Or the bear level. They're not fun.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:26
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IAmTheRad posted:I actually like Beautiful Katamari... It's the 4th best in the series that I have played. My personal issue with Beautiful Katamari is that the 90% Idolmaster soundtrack is really bad compared to what the other games have, and that the offset control sticks on the 360 felt weird to play with. It's not a bad game, just a bit of a mis-step for the series. Also because it might not be clear from the OP, while I do have some guests lined up, that doesn't mean I'm not willing to bring in folks from the thread. Shoot me a PM if you're interested.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:41
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i <3 katamari
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Jul 13, 2015 19:43
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I played this game a lot on my roommate's PS3 back in college. We slowly made our way through the series (skipping Beautiful Katamari because we didn't have it) and this game was probably the best one, with the most variety. When I got a used PS3 of my own, I made sure to buy this game so I could play it by myself too. It's so much fun and so bizarre in the best way.
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Jul 14, 2015 04:41
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This is one of the few reasons I'm interested in ever getting a PS3 again.
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Jul 14, 2015 05:16
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i hope the other reasons are Haze and Lair.
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Jul 14, 2015 05:28
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Hey guess what, it's Episode 2! Updates from this point are going to be sporadic. Now that the basic mechanics have been covered every episode from this point on is going to have a guest in it. The OP has been updated with our new cousin too!
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Jul 14, 2015 05:32
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I have the first two Katamari games for PS2 and haven't played any beyond those due to not having the systems, so I'll be following this LP. If this game is like the ones I've played, then shooting stars are rewards for meeting a level's objective within a certain time. On their screens where you can look at the stuff you've made, the shooting stars for levels correspond to buttons on the controller and go by when you press them.
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Jul 14, 2015 06:22
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...Have you seriously gotten this far without realizing that shooting stars come from beating the size requirement under a certain time?
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Jul 14, 2015 07:36
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The Katamari games and a few others (Muscle March, Cho Aniki, Seaman, Boong-Ga Boong-Ga, etc.) make me wonder, are Japanese game guys just loving with us? Like, do they make these games and chortle to themselves "ho ho the roundeyes are going to flip out over this one!" Katamari is a great game, make no mistake, love it. But it's just sandwiched with so much weirdness (essential to its charm) that I wonder how they come up with it sometimes.
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Jul 14, 2015 07:44
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Uhh, I dunno, I don't think anyone is thinking that, but is sure is a fun and beautiful bit of absurd video gaming. Also, made this for the thread before someone else could beat me to the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNoiyP6juc4
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Jul 14, 2015 07:47
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Page 1 and we already have an excuse to whip out the Fan Art banner. Congratulations PW! 
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Jul 14, 2015 08:01
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I don't have a PS3 anymore but I'm so going to have to dig out We <3 Katamari now that I've seen this. I actually did 100% Katamari Forever so I guess I'm a crazy person.
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Jul 14, 2015 08:51
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:...Have you seriously gotten this far without realizing that shooting stars come from beating the size requirement under a certain time? Nope, I never really correlated the two things together. Fun fact, until I went back to do some test recordings on my main save file, I didn't even have the present from this level on my main save file either  .
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poorlywrittennovel posted:Nope, I never really correlated the two things together. Fun fact, until I went back to do some test recordings on my main save file, I didn't even have the present from this level on my main save file either I'm figuratively dying. You're figuratively killing me.
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Scaramouche posted:The Katamari games and a few others (Muscle March, Cho Aniki, Seaman, Boong-Ga Boong-Ga, etc.) make me wonder, are Japanese game guys just loving with us? Like, do they make these games and chortle to themselves "ho ho the roundeyes are going to flip out over this one!" Katamari is a great game, make no mistake, love it. But it's just sandwiched with so much weirdness (essential to its charm) that I wonder how they come up with it sometimes. I think it just took one very creative guy with some amazing out-of-the-box ideas (Keita Takahashi) and a company that was willing to, ahem, roll with it. The base concept is unique enough, but yeah, sandwiched between all the graphics, offbeat opening movies, strange cutscenes, crazy music, and nutso soundclips (one of which, from We <3 Katamari, is my Windows critical stop sound) all come together to make one hell of a fun and special game. I applaud Takahashi for leaving the series after the first two games, before it got stale; his dream is to design playgrounds for children, and I bet those would be something else. 
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I think that the first two games are fantastic and are carried by how unique they are. As the series went on it seems like they just kept trying to up the scale of the games without really focusing on what made the series what it was. That's why I really like Forever, it would have been a perfect way to send off the series by going back to what made it work. I haven't actually played the Vita one, so I can't really speak about if they should have stopped at Forever or not though.
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Jul 14, 2015 17:53
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[record-scratching noises]
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Jul 15, 2015 09:20
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 The sad/horrifying part comes when you realize that Fred and the King have the same facial hair 
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Jul 15, 2015 09:48
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Am I allowed to hate levels that were so bad they didn't copy them into this one? gently caress campfires. Cowbear is worse but it's a close race.
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Jul 15, 2015 10:09
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nine-gear crow posted:
 going in the fanart section.
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poorlywrittennovel posted:1: No spoilers. Not even in black bars. You are free to discuss levels after they happen, but We don't want anyone ruining some of the amazing levels in this game. The only exception is Cowbear. You are allowed to hate Cowbear. Then I'll go ahead and say gently caress COWBEAR and doubly gently caress any unique items that you have to deal with it to get. It singlehandedly kills wanting to go right for platinum achievment level on KF, which is a shame, because most everything else is wonderful, although even Cowbear isn't as bad as the tedium of the million roses in We ♥ Katamari.
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I just loaded up my game after such a long time and the next level on my save file is Cowbear. We are not happy. e: oh man gently caress this level bullshit start FPzero fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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Jul 16, 2015 00:51
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I kinda want to play this cowbear level for myself to see if it is actually as terrible as you say. Instead, I will probs just boot up the original Katamari again because I nabbed it for $1 on a sweet PSN sale a while back.
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Blind Sally posted:I kinda want to play this cowbear level for myself to see if it is actually as terrible as you say. Instead, I will probs just boot up the original Katamari again because I nabbed it for $1 on a sweet PSN sale a while back. The level ends any time you pick up a cow or bear or anything that even remotely resembles one. You have 10 minutes to get really drat huge while narrowly avoiding all the cow spotted traffic cones, little tiny bear statues and other complete bullshit you can hardly see once your vision expands a couple times. All so you can pick up a flying Cowbear that roams around the map. And there's dozens of unique cows and bears you can only pick up on that level. dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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Jul 16, 2015 02:26
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dis astranagant posted:The level ends any time you pick up a cow or bear or anything that even remotely resembles one. You have 10 minutes to get really drat huge while narrowly avoiding all the cow spotted traffic cones, little tiny bear statues and other complete bullshit you can hardly see once your vision expands a couple times. All so you can pick up a flying Cowbear that roams around the map. Also the Cousin counts as a cow for the purposes of ending the level. She also gives you like no points and will inevitably ruin your score if you pick her up without thinking about it. It's made for some fun times trying to record a decent run of that level 
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Jul 16, 2015 03:10
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I mentioned to poorlywritten early that the cowbear level sounds like a hilarious troll from the devs. I imagine it's mandatory, though, right? It wouldn't be as frustrating if it was optional?
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Blind Sally posted:I mentioned to poorlywritten early that the cowbear level sounds like a hilarious troll from the devs. I imagine it's mandatory, though, right? It wouldn't be as frustrating if it was optional? I think it's mandatory, but at least in the first two games there is no minimum size requirement, so once you pick up that first cow-themed traffic cone you can basically skip the whole thing. It's only really irritating for completionists and for people who don't want the KoAC to berate them for underperforming.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:40
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It's a double troll for completionists because of both the annoying super clear requirement and the previously mentioned dozens of unique cows and bears for your collection.
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Yeah, it's not hellishly hard to manage to just clear it, but for completionists it's probably the single worst thing between them and platinum. The worst part is learning each of the dangers and keeping them memorized. The only reason it's not as tedious as the million rose roll is because that doesn't even have ANY challenge, effectively zero variety, and you don't even really noticeably grow there. Everything you do is better accomplished by several rubber bands around the analog sticks.
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