katamari damacy

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blackwingedboy gave me Katamari Damacy for a $Winterholiday present. I know I'm not the first to discover this game, but it is so. much. fun.

It is what all us unreformed hippies like in a videogame: creative, original, noncompetitive, nonviolent, colorful, catchy, and very very silly. (okay, there's a little bit of destructiveness in it, but in the sort of building-with-blocks-so-you-can-knock-them-down way.)

It's brilliant. As evan said:

it's everything our games ought to be. It's enough that it has a unique vision and a completely new style of play as well as ridiculously simple controls. But beyond that, the aesthetic of the game: the art, the story, and the music, themselves make it incredible. And it's cheap, too!