After talking with my roommate and googling about games that are similiar to Pikmin, I was reminded of Katamari, so the next day I decided to give it a try and this game is awesome. The aesthetic and weirdness sort of remind me of something that would be in Wario Ware and the gameplay does fit in similiarly to something like Pikmin. Everything about this game has so much charm to it that I really appreciate and I loved every second of my time with it. The soundtrack and humor were really really great and the final few levels were so crazy and fun. Awesome game, 9/10.

Katamari Damacy Reroll is what happens when you have an idea and you just commit to it. Everything in this game is just a little strange, to the point where it’s surprising that it even got fully developed and published, but I'm glad it did. Each level is so satisfying and fun to grow from a small pebble to something big enough to knock down people. The soundtrack is also already known for how good it is and makes going through the levels really motivating. One bad thing though is that a lot of the levels are reused, just in short portions, which can get exhausting when you just end up playing the same thing over and over. This does get better later on, but it should’ve been done better from the start. Overall just a fun time and good to play once in a while.

i'm going to be incredibly harsh here and say that this is a remaster that does not need to exist. the graphics look more washed out and lose that sharp style that original had. more damningly, the game somehow runs worse on the PS4 than it does on PS2 and will regularly get very bad slowdown around the baseball field near shopping street. it adds no qol features that the original could've used (i.e. the ability to restart a level either from pausing mid-level or retrying at the results screen), no extra content that the original didn't already have, and it only offers the japanese voice acting with no option for the iconic english voice acting (ik this part is contentious but there really is no reason it couldn't have at least been something you could toggle). i hate to be the fun police because a lot of people got introduced to this game from this remaster, but there really is no actual reason to play this over the original, especially considering how most microwaves can emulate PS2 games nowadays. i don't recommend this remaster for anyone uninitiated to the game and i don't recommend this remaster for any fans of the original looking for either new content or to revisit a classic, so it's a game for an audience of no one in my mind.

i want to be clear that this rating isn't necessarily reflective of the whole package; even with hiccups, this is katamari damacy. it takes more than slowdown to negate the joy of saying "C'MERE BITCH" and rolling up a terrified person into your katamari to then be rewarded with their screams of fear and agony. this rating is more an assessment of what reroll does (or does not do, in this case) to differentiate itself meaningfully from just playing the original. why pay money for this game when you can emulate the original and get the better and (imo) more essential experience? there's nothing inherently wrong with playing this over the original, but i would be completely unable to make a pitch for it. that's what makes it such a failure to me.

This is one of those games that clearly knows what it wants to be, they went for a niche game and take full advantage of the main gimmick, being implemented on not only normal levels, but on other ones where the main objective varies.

The game in terms of difficulty is also on a sweet spot, being easy for the casual players, but turning way harder for people who want to obtain the highest scores on each stage, to the point that some of the stages have to be perfectly known to obtain every single important item.