Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy

About

Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy by Namco Bandai Games is a puzzle game for Nintendo DSi that swaps rolling spheres for falling blocks. Players stack colorful items in a grid, then deploy a katamari to sweep them away in one go. The game focuses on two modes: Endless, which tests your ability to keep up with increasing chaos, and Challenge, where goals like collecting specific items or building massive katamaris add variety. Mechanics feel familiar from the Pac-Attack series, blending quick reflexes with strategic planning as the screen fills and blocks vanish in bursts. The King of All Cosmos acts as both judge and jury, reacting to your creations with sarcastic quips and escalating praise. A sparse collection earns eye-rolls while a packed katamari triggers awe, turning into stars or planets based on its contents. Released in 2009 as a DSiWare title, it’s a short but sharp puzzle experience. The mix of simple controls and escalating difficulty keeps things engaging, even if it strays far from the whimsy of traditional Katamari titles.

Storyline

Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Damacy is a falling block puzzle game. The player must stack items up and then drop a katamari to sweep them away all at once. There are two main game modes available to play, these are the Endless and Challenge modes. Challenge gives you a specific goal to complete, usually with a time set by The King of All Cosmos. These challenge modes involve rolling up a certain amount of a single item, rolling up a number of complete Katamaris, rolling up tons of items into a single Katamari, surviving for a set amount of time, and ???. Giving the King Katamaris of various sizes makes him say various things. If given a small Katamari, he will say that it's the smallest Katamari he's ever seen. He then tosses it downwards. If given a small, complete Katamari, he tells you the Katamari is okay, but not great. Making a medium-sized Katamari has him congratulate you, and making a big Katamari has him say that he's impressed. Making a gigantic Katamari with tons of items in it well have him exclaim in surprise at the sheer size, then say he is surprised. Giving him one with nothing on it will have him yell at you for wasting a perfectly good Katamari. Then, before tossing it away, he tells you to stop giving him wasted Katamaris. This relates size to number of items within the Katamari, not the actual metric size of the Katamari itself. When a Katamari is thrown into the sky, it turns into a star. The star a Katamari creates depends on the number of items in it. The star can either be a small dot, a normal star, a colored star, a rainbow star, or a planet.