Katamari Damacy 2 dated, new screenshots

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 April, 2005

The ball will soon be in our court.

Lonely rolling stars will be flaring up again this summer as Namco reveals that Minna Daisuki Katamari Damacy - or Katamari Damacy 2 for the sake of what little sanity the original left us with - will be released in Japan on 7th July.

The original Katamari Damacy, which involves rolling an adhesive ball around picking up worldly objects on an increasing scale, became an instant classic on PlayStation 2 and won itself a limited release in the USA where eager fans quickly lapped it up. It was never released in Europe, but built up a strong import following.

And rightly so. We thought it was bloody superb.

The sequel apparently sees the Prince of All Cosmos - he of the inflated codpiece - trying to answer fan mail by completing certain objectives, rather than trying to repair the skies by building stars out of hot air balloons, football stadiums and poodles after accidentally destroying them whilst on a bender.

Namco also recently added a bunch of new screenshots to its Japanese website for the game, and we've whacked them all up here. They're only ickle, but they show off some of the new environments and things you can attach to your ball.

Frankly just looking at them makes us all warm and happy, and stands to make Lik-Sang richer in three months' time.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000. Follow him on Twitter.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Kami #1 7 years ago

    So, we're still gonna get shafted here in Europe?

    Meh. I'll import, but a European release based on the good import trade of the original would make sense...

  • Blerk #2 7 years ago

    Namco don't have time to release stuff like this over here. They're too busy making sure we get fantastic Tekken spin-offs that score 2/10 everywhere.

  • WorldWideWizard #3 7 years ago

    Daisuki Katamari Damacy - Sounds like a huge opportunity to feature wands! >8)

  • Royal Fool #4 7 years ago

    This sucks... I want Katamari!

  • Royal Fool #5 7 years ago

    ˆ Wrong comment thread, perhaps?

  • Tweakmonkey #6 7 years ago

    The people responsible for not releasing the original in Europe should be ashamed.

    Where are the marketing goons when you need them?

    /looks underneath forum

  • pjmaybe #7 7 years ago

    "The ball will soon be in our court." said Mr Japanese Gamer. Meanwhile Mr European gamer (Euro-gamer, geddit) still sat there with his thumb up his arse and no way of playing imports, pleading with Namco to release the fucking thing over here.

    Peej

  • silver-jon #8 7 years ago

    I can't believe I am seriously considering modding my PS2 purely and ONLY to play this game.
    Someone needs to tell Namco that there would be a huge potential market for this game that would spill into living rooms across Europe because it's the perfect game to bring out for die-hard gamers, and for part-timers with kids.