I'm Sorry Daddy!

If there is one goal I set this year it was that the first game I defeated on the XBox 360 it would be Beautiful Katamari. Being a fan of the Katamari series Beautiful Katamari was a bit of a disappointment compared to the others.

Prince is once again set out on a coarse from the black hole that his abusive father, King of the Cosmos created. So the story goes, to me it feels shorter then the other ones and instead of taking in request like you did in the other Katamaris. The Prince just goes from building to building to all is complete. A lot of the levels seemed to be repeated from previous games such as the endings credit game which was first used in Me and My Katamari. As well as the rolling up countries, the only things they did different was extended it further into outer space. I can see a reason for this, for people who haven't played any of the other games because of them owning an XBox to have some of the experience. But for me it feels like playing the PSP version all over again.

The opening theme song doesn't seem as energetic compared to the other three such as We Love Katamari. It was the first sign that this game wasn't going to live up to it's name. The thing I was really disappointed in was there no story within a story. In both Katamari's for the Playstation 2 there was a story that followed every roll completed. In the first one is was about a boy and his family who want to go to a moon that wasn't there. It was up to the Prince to roll up a Katamari to make the moon as well as the universe. We Love Katamari was a memory of King of the Cosmos as he grew up with a strict father and ended up running away. Only to meet his love Queen of the Cosmos. But Beautiful Katamari feels incomplete because of this, felt like they didn't care much about it or it was rushed.

Just like in every other Katamari game Daddy of the Cosmos finds new ways of punishing the Prince for his errors. This time it's a cosmic billiard table and Prince is set in the middle running for his life against the billiard balls that are striked to him. Earning the King points as he lectures you about so and so.

I have yet to play the online because I just recently got a XBox 360 and haven't hooked it up to the internet yet.