Katamari Knitmacy
The Katamari series represents the purest video game experience. When I think back to all my favourite titles of the last couple of years, each title I imagine has several sections or moments of gameplay that I don’t enjoy and simply play through grudgingly. Except one game – the Katamari inspired Tornado Outbreak.
In Tornado Outbreak you begin as a small tornado. You move around gathering up tiny things first: flowers, pebbles, and chicken feathers, gradually getting bigger until eventually you’re pulling up people, trucks, houses, and ocean liners. Exactly what you can pull is indicated with a childlike lucidity. If it wiggles, it’s yours.
Replaying a level in Tornado Outbreak isn’t arduous, nor is the achievement chasing; it’s simply fun. Even with my favourite title from last year, Splinter Cell Conviction, dying and replaying that Iraq flashback was painful. But in Tornado Outbreak as long as there it something in my path to absorb I will engage with the game like a non-judgemental, idyllic child.
Never played Katamari. Didn’t look like I would enjoy it’s… simplicity…
katamari is awesome. what’s confusing is this post, which talks about a game that is not katamari. i’m starting to think you never even played it. who cares about tornado forgettable? that’s like giving praise to the matrix 3, because it was inspired by the matrix 1.
I mean obviously they haven’t played katamari. What with the comic themed around it, that’s the obvious conclusion to come to! Oh wait, you’re just a dick who likes to stir up shit on the internet because you’re a total tool in real life and this is the only place you feel you have any power.
They’re simply describing a similar game that people probably have never played (or heard of for that matter), to give a smaller and lesser known game a little time in the spotlight. I mean, every “in the know” gamer has heard of Katamari Damacy and has probably played it at some point. So why rattle on about something everyone knows about already? OMG KATAMARI IS SO GREAT YOU ROLL AROUND AND PICK STUFF UP LOLOL. I bet even if they said that you’d be like “Oh we know that already, you’re JUST NOW talking about that game? I’VE been playing it since it came out in JAPAN!”
Seriously bro, go outside. xD
you.. know that i.. write the comics too, right? good rant though. glad you got some of that anger out.
Maybe you should go outside a little. TGN can be my new friend. My defender. I will call him my Spidey. Excelsior!
i’m sure you’ll have a happy life together. GET A ROOM
Hahahaha! Wow! That was awesome! I have no clue what Katamari is or what this Tornado thing is about but this lil rant and response made me snort my water out of my nose! hahahaha! Dude, I have no clue what that rant was about! What I got out of this comic though was that this chick is badass ’cause she can play video games, knit AND speak french! how badass is that?! hahaha
TGN, you impress me. It’s nice to see things are lively here.
You know, for a long time I only owned Matrix 2 and 3. Probably because they were the best ones.
just like back to the future #2 was the best one? it’s the only one i have. no i’m just kidding; i don’t have any of them.