I Love Katamari rolls onto the iPhone
The appeal of Namco’s Katamari Damacy game franchise is kind of hard to explain. Basically, the object is to roll a ball around a level and pick up as much junk as you can to make the ball bigger. It sounds lame, but it’s fun to play and kind of addicting. And its gameplay seems like a perfect match for a device with an accelerometer - like the iPhone and iPod touch - so it’s really no surprise that Namco has just released a version, I Love Katamari, today in the App Store.
Previous players of Katamari games will feel right at home. The King of All Cosmos instructs you, the Prince, to pick up as much junk as possible so grow your katamari (the adhesive ball) large enough to pick up the one big object he wants. But rather than use a tranditional video game console controller’s directional pad to move around, you simply tilt the iPhone and touch the screen to direct the katamari.
