Katamari Damacy REROLL
This is a public service announcement.
You may have noticed a highly voted negative review claiming that the game is unplayable without a controller due to a lack of key mappings.
This is not the case. The game does work with a keyboard - I have completed the entire game playing this way.
The problem is not with the key bindings but with how they are explained. I made the same mistake as the other poster when I first started playing but once you know how to use the keyboard it’s actually quite intuitive.
– Real player with 26.3 hrs in game
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I’ma split this into two reviews. One for people who played Katamari Damacy on PS2, the other for people who have never played it.
PS2 players: Hello. I too am old. This is in almost every respect the Katamari you remember. Except the visuals come in higher resolution (no pixels!) and everything loads quicker. There have been complaints that the game only runs in windowed mode until you’ve cleared the tutorial. Yup. True. After that you get access to the settings from Home Planet in the same way you accessed them on your PS2. This bothered me not at all. If you think it might bother you, you’ll want to take that into consideration. There have also been complaints that the game didn’t recognize controller input during the tutorial. No idea. Mine worked just fine with no configuration. Also, the story scenes involving the Hoshino family are presented in Japanese with subtitles, rather than the NSTC PS2 release’s divertingly weird English dub.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
Bird Pro Skater
Bird Pro Skater is an addictive runner game to help people relax. Skate across different countries and perform dangerous stunts on trampolines.
Key features:
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Buy unique parrots
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Set new records
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Discover new countries
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Enjoy relaxing music
Locations:
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Brazil
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France
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Italy
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Japan
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Soviet Union
Chime Sharp Game Composer Edition
As a huge Chime fan and someone that has all the other versions on all platforms, I was disappointed with this one. First of all, there was no real reason for this to be its own game. A whole new install and icon just for 5 different tracks? This should have been DLC for the original Chime Sharp. Second, the 5 tracks that are here aren’t any good. Certainly nowhere near as good as the tracks from the original Chime Sharp, which was itself worse than Chime Super Deluxe on PSN, which was basically the pinnacle of the series. The music here is just too mellow and doesn’t transform as much as in the previous entries. I bought this for $5 on sale and I’m going to refund it. Sorry, devs. Hopefully your new sequel will be an absolute masterpiece!
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
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Really glad that there’s another one of these! Good selection of new tracks and same classic Chime gameplay.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Crocodine: The Buffet
im croco i eat pizza
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
its an odd, fun little time waste kind of game
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Grandpa’s Table
This puzzle game is similar to a lot of others I’ve played on mobile. You slide around like colored squares on a board and have them match up. This version has a lot of similar ideas to others I’ve played in the past, and it has a couple of new ideas, which is good. What I like most about this variant is that the number of moves you make doesn’t matter. This is always a source of frustration for me whenever I play these games when they demand you solve the puzzle in the fewest amount of moves to get 3 stars.
– Real player with 23.6 hrs in game
grandpa’s table doesn’t do anything that hasn’t been done before in sliding/matching puzzle games, but it’s a very charming game with 150 puzzles, none of which are insanely hard but some of them will surely take a while to figure out. simply matching the same tiles isn’t necessarily hard, but the trick is to cover all 3 stars on the board, that’s how the rating system works. thankfully, there’s no move or time limit and you can undo to your heart’s desire, as long as you solve a level, even without any stars, the next one unlocks.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
Maze Slider
Nothing special, but ok for the price.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Trash
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
PAC-MAN™ CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2
These are crude early impressions from someone who is in the top 100 on the leaderboards (or at least, top 300 if we include hackers) for both Pac Man DX and Champ 2:
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The game starts with an unnecessary six minute tutorial. After this, you unlock Score attack, where you unlock more levels as you play. There’s a lot of unlocking in this game, but I think anyone with moderate stint of skill should be able to unlock mostly everything in no time.
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Championship 2 has the same fundamentals as the other games (eat dots, ghost trains, power pellets) but its otherwise entirely different. Eating dots fills up a gauge that, when filled will allow you to eat a fruit at the center of the screen to refresh the board. This means you don’t have to eat every single dot to to get the fruit like in DX. Ghosts no longer immediately kill you on impact. Instead you bump off them a few times before they turn hostile and chase you. Bombs can now be obtained by eating all of the dots and return you to the center of the screen instead of the ghosts when you use them. Another small addition to some boards are jump pads that dart you across the screen. I have to say, I think these will always throw me out of whack, but in a good way.
– Real player with 38.9 hrs in game
Is CE2 a good game? Yes. Is it a good game on its own right? Yes. Is it a good game compared to its predecessor, Pac-Man CE DX? I’m still not entirely sure.
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is the next iteration in the Pac-Man Championship franchise. It takes the standard Pac-Man arcade formula and spins it on its head. The first iteration had changing mazes and speed increases, CEDX introduced ghost trains, and now here we are with CE2 that throws more ideas into the system than either of the other two games in the series did. While building on the familiar concepts of CE and CEDX, CE2 stands far apart from these two previous titles.
– Real player with 33.5 hrs in game
Road Legends
Road Legends is an endless runner with some sweet beats, but has several flawed designs.
The game is brutally unforgiving and will force you to restart if you hit any obstacle even if you make it through 99% of the stage. Each stage is beatable, but will require sharp reflexes and the ability to look ahead, if you have some experience with rhythm games, you should be fine on the lowest speed. The procedural generated nature of stages can create some nearly frame perfect requirements so get ready to replay each stage multiple times if trying for 3 star finishes.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Levels feel like they take 5x longer than they actually are. A great way to agonisingly stretch out 2 minutes to what feels like 10 if it’s your last day of summer break and don’t want to go back to school.
The game also features some garbage tier level generation that will put two targets in the outer lanes as close together as possible making it not only nearly impossible to spam the turn keys quick enough, but then it will literlally throw a bomb between he two points.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Tricky Cat
this was a fun little game certainly worth 59 cents so if you want to get this game get it during the special promotion. even the 99 cents full price for this game is still worth it. if anyone is looking for a small challenge that will take 1 to 2 hours this game is the right choice. doesn’t have to much replay value since once you memorize the tricks for most of the levels it will feel boring. but the music is great and it will make 1 to 2 hours go by really fast, for only 99 cents that makes it totally worth it.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Was hoping for something more challenging… but this is just too easy and short.
All 100 levels can be done in just one sit through.
Suitable for casual player. No sweat in the play and doesn’t require too much brain work.
The control can be a bit tricky though, because the cat has a habit of sliding off blocks, especially during teleportation. The most challenging part of this game is probably wrestling with that sliding problem.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Woody Chopper
Fun little game! After some trial and error, i figured out what to do and got stuck to my screen for an hour! I talked to the developer and he said his personal best is roughly 700. I vow to beat it one day!
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game