It’s Katamari Damacy but with varied levels, more polish and some lame extra content attached. I really liked the first game and I had a lot of fun here too, but I think everyone telling me the second game was so much better and basically replaces the original colored my opinions. As simple as it was, there was something triumphant about making your katamari bigger and bigger in the same exact environment, which was already taken to its logical extreme in the original. There is also a series of levels with the same exact idea here, but most of the new meat is in the extra stages, which do take the concept in creative, but totally directionless ways. I am not sure how you could make a sequel to KD worthwhile, as We Love Katamary ends up feeling like a (well-designed!) DLC level pack. There is some metacommentary about sequels and how hard it is to surpass expectations, which is very ironic and arguably proves Takahashi’s point.

Also, making your second game about how much everyone loved your first game was a bit too masturbatory for my liking.