Yahtari

Easy, Relaxing, Free Game

It’s definitely a shallow game, since it can be beaten in an hour or two, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good game, though. It’s exactly what it seems to be… a dumbed down version of Katamari Demancy. It only has one basic map, that you can make bigger by leveling up. And its mechanics are basic, but good enough for the price of the game… free, and I mean free, as in no ads or anything. It’s a relaxing game that is so simple, that if you’re going to complain about it, you might as well splurge and spend money for katamancy in the Apple Arcade or on the PS2.

It’ll scratch the itch.

We all love Katamari Damacy but NamcoBandai pulled the old game from the App Store and only has a weird arcade version so we got this copy cat. I say that with all due respect because it is fun, it’s just shallow and has no replay value as it can be “beaten” in an afternoon but it’s a good distraction if you’re longing for days gone of Katamari Damacy. You’re an alien ball and the objective is harvest what’s on the map as quickly as possible. When the timer runs out the resources you harvest are tallied and can be used to upgrade your world/ball. You can dump resources to make the ball roll faster, expand the map a little, extend how much time you’re given and finally how magnetic your ball is to what it’s rolling over. That’s it though, you can max out everything in a day and there’s no map beside the base map so after that it’s just kind of a way to will time away. It’ll scratch the itch but you could probably rip out your old PS2, hook it up and pop in an old copy of Katamari in the time it takes to download the game and beat it.