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Katamari Damacy

My kids just rented a Play Station 2 called Katamari Damacy. It is the weirdest game ever. The point of the game is simple. You are to roll everything you see up into a big moving ball. The larger the ball, the bigger the stuff you can roll up. You start small, only being able to add small things like bushes and loose things on the sidewalk into your ball. The ball gets larger as the game progresses, to the point that you can roll up houses, large animals and sea creatures, automobiles, tractors, big trees, you name it. All the while, your ball makes noises—humans screaming and grumbling, animals mooing, neighing and barking, cars honking, etc. It is weird, obscure, and a total riot. Katamari Damacy is “pointless outrageous fun.”