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Re: We <3 Katamari (and another expansion pack bonus review) by FABIO 09/22/2005, 2:24pm PDT
QB wrote:

You want the original soundtrack in the sequel? I just want the original game first :(

You also win by not playing Freedom Force and The Third Reich, it has the single most obnoxious menu screen of anything ever. Seriously. It's all the characters from the game in a panorama that spins around you forever with a horrible, faux-nazi marching theme going on. All the bright colours and lines succeed in doing is making sure you can't see where the mouse is (not just the pointer on screen, damn my synasthesia).

The "heroes" of the era are ridiculously weak (in fact, they're normal people!), I suppose to tell everyone you don't need super powers to be a hero, but having a gun, a card dipped in acid, a sword and a jetpack sure to help. In contrast, the other heroes are so powerful compared to the main enemies that it breaks everything, I eventually found myself trying to *not* make the most powerful character I could, whilst being strong enough to actually defeat more than one enemy every 5 minutes.

All of this changes for the final few levels, where you'll get spanked seven ways from Sunday by a few choice enemies, but without actually getting defeated (34 minutes to do the final mission, which is two enemies long).

All of this and a general lack of support from the mod community so far just makes it feel not as cool as the original (which is too short, but The Strangers fan mod is pretty excellent) so don't bother, reinstall the original and find some of the better mods instead.


The moving of a comic book game to a WWII setting, in a market saturated with WWII games, was so inexplicabley idiotic that I can only imagine that it came from producers who study trend charts (or at least hire people who do) instead of play games. "Your first game received critical praise, but sold like crap. If you want funding for a sequel, make it a WWII game, making sure to tell everyone it's a WWII game right on the box so that they'll think they're buying the next Medal of Honor game."

I could easily live with the character imbalance or uneven learning curve if they just kept the classic comic feel of the original. I'm sorry, but I just can't get it up for a super hero in world war 2(??) game. Are there really that many people who think the first Captain America comics were the highpoint of the genre? Those guys are just being Irrational! ha!

They should have realized that the best WWII comic ever has already been made and anything else would instantly be inferior.
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We <3 Katamari (and another expansion pack bonus review) by FABIO 09/22/2005, 3:01am PDT NEW
    Re: We <3 Katamari (and another expansion pack bonus review) by QB 09/22/2005, 1:24pm PDT NEW
        Re: We <3 Katamari (and another expansion pack bonus review) by FABIO 09/22/2005, 2:24pm PDT NEW
            Man, I totally forgot to mention all the time travel cliche's you have to sit NT by through. 09/23/2005, 4:24am PDT NEW
        got it working :( by FABIO 10/05/2005, 12:37am PDT NEW
            Re: got it working :( by bombMexico 10/05/2005, 3:35pm PDT NEW
    Have you tried Vs. yet? I haven't because I'm alone, like that dog. NT by Worm * BIG FUCKING FROWN * 09/23/2005, 4:35pm PDT NEW
        versus mode sucks too by Flavio 09/11/2006, 5:23am PDT NEW
    :( NT by MM 09/23/2005, 4:52pm PDT NEW
    final impressions by FABIO 09/25/2005, 2:33am PDT NEW
        Re: final impressions by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/28/2005, 1:44pm PDT NEW
            I'm just worried people will take the Terminator 2 comparison as a positive NT by FABIO 09/28/2005, 2:10pm PDT NEW
                Terminator 2 WAS better, dickhole NT by AHNOLD! 01/15/2006, 5:50am PST NEW
                    Congratulations on being stupid NT by Fabsy 01/15/2006, 6:18am PST NEW
                        He now knows why you cry NT by BUT ITS SOMETHING HE CAN NEVER DO! 01/17/2006, 5:12pm PST NEW
                            That is a great line to say to people out of nowhere. NT by Creexul :( 01/18/2006, 12:33pm PST NEW
                        This Witty Rejoinder brought to you by by Fabsy 01/17/2006, 11:10pm PST NEW
                            That's me holding up my Best Looking Caltrops Poster award by Fabsy 01/18/2006, 8:49am PST NEW
                                Re: That's me holding up my Best Looking Caltrops Poster award by Zsenicorpse 09/10/2006, 5:49pm PDT NEW
                                    I never bothered because I heard the soundtrack wasn't good. by Fullofkittens 09/10/2006, 8:12pm PDT NEW
                                        It isn't =( by Flavio 09/11/2006, 5:16am PDT NEW
                                            IHNTS, IJWYTK it's "kawaii" by Zsenicorpse 09/11/2006, 1:08pm PDT NEW
 
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