How to make Daddy love you.
In the PlayStation®2 game We Love Katamari Damancy, you play the Little Prince and your father the King hates you. Honestly, it's nearly impossible to get a tiny bit of praise from the guy, no matter how well you're doing your job. So an enterprising player hooked up an oscillating fan to his joystick (I mean the video game joystick, get your mind out of the gutter) so that he could roll the Katamari around and collect roses.
On Friday night I hooked up a PS2 controller to a sturdy wooden chair with some string so it is immobile. I then taped the left analog stick in the forward direction. Then I put an oscillating fan in front of the controller-chair setup. To the fan, I attached a string with a loop on the end of it. I put this loop around the other analog controller so that when the fan oscillates, it pulls the stick in different directions.This was noted by the game, with effulsive praise from Daddy the King (remarkable in itself), but also amazing since this nearly-impossible accomplishment (without a fan, anywho) was expected with a cutscene.
The purpose of this setup is to collect one million roses in We Love Katamari.
Yes, I said one million. Doing this without assistance would be so ridiculously time consuming. It's not even vital to winning the game, but you get fun little things in the game for doing it.
Thanks as always to boingboing.
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2 comments:
I, of course, have this game and I've seen the ending. I haven't gotten a million roses and probably won't ever come close.
Of note, though, is that it is even harder to get daddy's approval in this version than it was in the first version. The missions are mostly suggested by in-game "fans" of the first game, and you get to weather their derision as well. This makes for an end-mission double whammy sort of ego blow.
The gifts seem to be a bit easier to find, though, and some of them are very cool.
There's a similar trick with a rubber band and a pile of re-spawning bolts (which are currency) in the excellent Ratchet & Clank.
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