Initially, the katamari can only pick up smaller items like loose change and discarded pencils. The gameplay follows the same core mechanic: To collect objects, the Prince pushes around his katamari, a strange, highly adhesive ball capable of grabbing anything smaller than itself. If the player has save data from Katamari Damacy on their system they can import Stars to help with this task.

This continues until there are enough planets in the cosmos to roll up the sun using the Earth as a katamari. Upon fulfilling each fan’s request, the Katamari is given to the king, which he uses to create a new planet in the cosmos. The objective of the game is to have the Prince fulfill each fan’s request, which will make more fans (stages) appear until the whole game is mobbed with fans. The Prince receives a request from a fan at the start of the game. Since the release of the original game, The King of All Cosmos and his son the Prince have acquired a fan base. The concept for this game is as idiosyncratic as its predecessor. A nurse appears from a doorway, and introduces the newly-born Prince of All Cosmos, the character that the player controls during the game. Moving forward, we see the King as a grown man, pacing back and forth in a waiting room. Upon entering, the father crowns his son as the new King of All Cosmos, and then collapses, seemingly dead (but is, in fact, only sleeping). But soon afterward, the Emperor falls ill, and calls his son into his bedroom. In the most demonstrative gesture of affection to date, the father places a hand on his son’s head.Īfter this reconciliation, all is well between the Emperor, the son, and his fiancée. He bursts into the room, crying, and kneels before his father to beg forgiveness. Recalling the incident from his childhood, and imagining his father stooping to fish the trophy back out of the river, he suddenly realizes the love underlying his father’s stern exterior all these years. Later that evening, the son inadvertently spies on his father deep in thought, staring at the second-place boxing trophy. In frustration and anger, the son lashes out, knocking his father to the ground. During a subsequent date, the father shows up, as disapproving of his son as ever. In the next scene, the dejected future king meets the woman who would become his queen, after the severed end of his pompadour is pieced with her half-eaten loaf of bread to create the shape of a heart. During this period of rebellion, he gets into fights with street punks who in one altercation slice off the front of his pompadour haircut. Later in life, after an argument concerning a strawberry shortcake, the future King of All Cosmos runs away from home. In a telling scene, after losing first place in a boxing tournament the Emperor throws his son’s second-place trophy into the river out of disappointment. His father was a strict man, always pushing his son to go further, a trait which his son would inherit.

The future King of All Cosmos grew up either on Earth itself or a planet very much like it, in a giant castle on a hill surrounded by green fields. His father was the previous King of All Cosmos (also called Emperor of the Cosmos, or Papa). The King of All Cosmos was not always the King. The King of All Cosmos’s history is told in We ♥ Katamari’s cut scenes, interspersed between the game’s stages. At the game’s conclusion, the player discovers that they too love Katamari. So he orders the Prince, alongside the Prince’s cousins to fulfill the requests of the fans by rolling Katamaris. Reaction to the Success of Katamari DamacyĪfter the stars in the sky have been restored, the King of All Cosmos is surprised to discover that he has many fans down on Earth. We Love Katamari tells two stories, both of which are centered around the King of All Cosmos: The first story is about how the King reacts to the unexpected success of Katamari Damacy, and the second story is an origin story detailing how the King became the ruler of the Great Cosmos, met the Queen, and had the Prince. 7.2 Kodansha Super Character Festival 2005.

1.2 The Origin of the King of All Cosmos.1.1 Reaction to the Success of Katamari Damacy.

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