We Love Katamari Reroll + Royal Reverie Hits Consoles, PC - Hardcore Gamer

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We love the Katamari Damacy series here at Hardcore Gamer – and the first two entries have actually been featured in our graveyard. The initial game got a re-release a few years ago that brought with it a 16:9 aspect ratio alongside slightly improved graphics and far more stable framerates across the board. Earlier this year, Bandai Namco announced that the second game in the series, We Love Katamari, would receive a remaster and it seemed like something that was a long time coming.

Given that the bulk of the work was already done since it would be a remaster, it seemed odd that it would take years to get a remaster of the second game – but upon the announcement, it was clear that more work was going into this remaster than was put into the first one. Now it was great to have the original game available on modern hardware – but there were some quality of life issues with that release. The main one being that the cinematics were changed around and didn’t explain the story as well because they lacked the English voiceover – which added a bit of charm to the game as well, even if going with a subtitled Japanese language track was still fine.

The sequel aimed to take everything that worked out the twin-stick ball-rolling of the first game and expand upon it with more levels and a lot of self-referencial humor. During a time when [adult swim] was finding its greatest success as a part of pop culture, it was in vogue to have a lot of fourth-wall breaking and We Love Katamari had that in spades. The premise is that the King of All Cosmos who caused all the problems that led to the Prince having to rebuild the moon is now taking all the credit for the success of that adventure and it’s led to an overwhelming amount of fan