IPHONE KATAMARI GETS EXQUISITE ADDITION
By now the audience is deeply divided over whether the iPhone’s I Love Katamari hit or miss its rolling target, even after an update took great strides at correcting much of its control issues (Takahashi himself, for whatever it’s worth, told me in 2007 that the original’s symmetrical dual-analog control was an inseparable feature of the game: draw your own conclusions about his non-involvement with later versions from PSP to Xbox 360 and on).
But I was very pleased to wake up to a new update that adds an even more essential omission from its first release: the Exquisite Collection book of everything you’ve rolled up in the course of the game. It’s always been my favorite part of the series (outside We Love‘s solar system view, which I still maintain is just about one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever interacted with [no luck finding a YouTube video/flickr pic]).
There’s something so essentially humanistic about its encyclopedic list of every object in the universe (well, you know, give or take), and it’s always reminded me of a particular favorite childhood book, Words (viewable online, somewhat akwardly, here) — part of the Little Golden Books series, and a primer on what it means to be a person on Earth.
Not to insinuate that it’s worth purchasing the game for that alone, and I Love‘s book is necessarily more brief than its console counterparts, but I’m happy to see Namco continuing to bolster the game with new, and unmissable, features.
I Love Katamari [iTunes link]
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