The King of All Cosmos took the rainbow road and slid right into Flash in an online mini-game. If you have no idea what I am talking about, you probably haven’t played one of my favorite cult games, Katamari Damacy for PS2 (and soon for the PSP as Me & My katamari).

Katamari Damacy and its sequel We ♥ Katamari are two of the quirkiest games I’ve ever played. You play the part of the son of the King of All Cosmos who went on a bender and destroyed all the stars. You are sent to earth with a spiky ball and have to gather up items like building a snowball. The design, the music and overall Japanese-ness of this game have made it a classic. There were clearly no mediocrity police on duty when this was made.

I actually designed this blog right after beating the first game, and I am still a little embarrassed about how much I was unconsciously influenced by the design of the game.

BTW, a note about the king of all Cosmos. In the first game, every time you see the king he looks like he is smuggling the prince’s purple cousin Odeko in his trousers. In the second game, he was always in some way covered or blocked. Did someone actually complain or is the King just feeling modest these days?