Go Go Noby Noby Boy!
Katamari wasn't enough for you? Well here you go!
Published: January 25, 2009
So, you like weird games? Well, we do too! The Katamari games combine an untraditional artstyle with unique gameplay, resulting in a crazy but successful mixture that's hard to describe to someone who has never held hands-on nor seen it in motion, though nonetheless even harder to resist once actually experienced.
We all know the out of this world ingeniousness Japanese game developers happen to have, and by this they tend to revolutionize the industry equally as often as they create games that never make it to the US or Europe (Tokyo Bus Driver, anyone?). Katamari Damacy however managed to do exactly that, and despite its craziness the game has become quite a hit commercially and critically in the US and Europe. Fans of the series and gamers with a sense for unique sleeper hits will therefore be happy to read that NAMCO BANDAI officially announced Katamari creator Keita Takahashi's latest title Noby Noby Boy (AND WHAT A TITLE THAT IS!) to be released exclusively over the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 on February 19 at the surprisingly cheap price of $4.99.
A game with such a daring title truly deserves our attention, even though us trying to explain its gameplay features to you is a truly terrifying challenge (probably the most terrifying of any news editor's carrier.........). To shorten the torture, the game looks like Katamari and promises a "similar" gameplay approach. The quotation marks around the word "similar" are deliberately placed there, because in truth, the conformities in style are quite superficial.
According to Namco Bandai's press release, the game gives players "complete freedom to create gameplay suited to their tastes". Well if that doesn't sound promising, then what does? To be honest we are not quite sure what Namco Bandai meant by that nor whether they themselves can truly say they understand the game. The only thing we do know, and care about, is that a game by Keita Takahashi better not disappoint. In the press release a video uploading feature is also mentioned, allowing players to capture their own gameplay footage and uploading it directly to YouTube . Again we are trying to figure out the sense of this in theory interesting sounding feature, though not having actually played the game, it might explain itself the moment we do exactly that. Speaking of YouTube, a couple of juicy but nonetheless hard to understand gameplay videos have already appeared on the video portal. Go check em' out now!
For more clarification on the game visit Namco Bandai's official site. We will definitely keep you posted on the game and hopefully have a review up by the time its release date catches up with us.
We all know the out of this world ingeniousness Japanese game developers happen to have, and by this they tend to revolutionize the industry equally as often as they create games that never make it to the US or Europe (Tokyo Bus Driver, anyone?). Katamari Damacy however managed to do exactly that, and despite its craziness the game has become quite a hit commercially and critically in the US and Europe. Fans of the series and gamers with a sense for unique sleeper hits will therefore be happy to read that NAMCO BANDAI officially announced Katamari creator Keita Takahashi's latest title Noby Noby Boy (AND WHAT A TITLE THAT IS!) to be released exclusively over the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 on February 19 at the surprisingly cheap price of $4.99.
A game with such a daring title truly deserves our attention, even though us trying to explain its gameplay features to you is a truly terrifying challenge (probably the most terrifying of any news editor's carrier.........). To shorten the torture, the game looks like Katamari and promises a "similar" gameplay approach. The quotation marks around the word "similar" are deliberately placed there, because in truth, the conformities in style are quite superficial.
According to Namco Bandai's press release, the game gives players "complete freedom to create gameplay suited to their tastes". Well if that doesn't sound promising, then what does? To be honest we are not quite sure what Namco Bandai meant by that nor whether they themselves can truly say they understand the game. The only thing we do know, and care about, is that a game by Keita Takahashi better not disappoint. In the press release a video uploading feature is also mentioned, allowing players to capture their own gameplay footage and uploading it directly to YouTube . Again we are trying to figure out the sense of this in theory interesting sounding feature, though not having actually played the game, it might explain itself the moment we do exactly that. Speaking of YouTube, a couple of juicy but nonetheless hard to understand gameplay videos have already appeared on the video portal. Go check em' out now!
For more clarification on the game visit Namco Bandai's official site. We will definitely keep you posted on the game and hopefully have a review up by the time its release date catches up with us.
