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Plus: full versions of both now just a fiver.

Take a look at the iTunes App Store today and you'll see free trial versions of I Love Katamari and Puzzle Quest.

This coincides with a crafty price cut for Puzzle Quest, which drops to five pounds - the same price as Katamari.

Both are conversions of very popular and acclaimed handheld/console games, as you may or may not know. Both also have had similar port-quality issues on iTunes: complaints of poor performance, bad graphics and rickety gameplay are rife.

Both, however, are being fixed. I Love Katamari has already received a couple of patches, and TransGaming, the Puzzle Quest handler, has promised fixes plus a good will gesture of making the next chapter completely free.

Happy days, hopefully.

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Retroid #1 3 years ago

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Excellent timing: my sister-in-law has just bought an iPod Touch! \o/
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Ignatius_Cheese #2 3 years ago

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Cock... Early adopters kicked in the nuts again ;oP
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dr_faulk #3 3 years ago

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No! I bought katamari when it was a bag of sick cats, but after three updates (updates are free) it works as good as the PS2 version - even the controls have been much improved! Loving it.
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seasidebaz #4 3 years ago

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I, too, have an iPod Touch from next week

This is the kind of stuff I need to convince me the iPod is more than just a music player with shitty games on it.

I might also try Rolando.
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DFawkes #5 3 years ago

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At least the N-gage service allows you to try everything. Not that there's as much choice, but it is nice to be able to try before you buy, like XBLA games.
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dylman #6 3 years ago

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Puzzle Quest has been fixed too - certainly I'm having fun with the latest version 1.2
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afray #7 3 years ago

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+1 on the puzzle quest lovin'. Picking crystals is a teeeny bit fiddley but framerate is good and the core gameplay is a good as ever.
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photoboy #8 3 years ago

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Katamari has been fixed for ages, the first release was terrible but after the first patch they completely fixed the horrid frame rate problems. Quite why they didn't wait until they finished making the game before releasing it I don't know, as I'm sure the bad publicity has put loads of people off the game.
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xandoodle #9 3 years ago

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Astonishingly lazy article writing...

No app store links?
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