Beautiful Katamari

Reviewed by:
Scott Jones

It's once again time, boys and girls, to roll your little ball around a junk-cluttered world, picking up garbage, and ultimately turning it into…a bigger ball. Your dad, the king of Cosmos, has once again fucked up the universe, and it's your job, as his offspring, to make garbage balls to, er, plug up holes in the sky. Or something. This marks the first time that the Katamari series has appeared on the Xbox 360, yet it doesn't really take advantage of the machine's bonus horsepower. This is also the first time that a Katamari game can be taken online, which means you and three other pathetic bastards can battle it out over Xbox Live. The single-player experience is less than 10 hours long. Like all Katarmaris, the game is relentlessly cheery, which means it'll either carve an involuntary smile on your face, or make you want to light your merkin on fire and throw yourself out your apartment window.

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