Katamari series, Crusty Demons
Beautiful Katamari - Xbox 360What the hell is this game all about? This entry goes for all games in the Katamari series. I just don’t understand why the franchise has such a loyal fan-base and why some people love rolling around collecting materials and turning themselves into a huge ball of crap. It’s bonkers!
You just roll around various bland environment battling against the clock, gathering tat by picking up anything up from loose change to pencils to sheep. The Japanese certainly know how to create bizarre games that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Like that irritating ‘Crazy Frog’ ring tone I couldn’t get the surreal Katamari soundtrack out of my head for days. It still haunts me now with its incessant mumbling. "Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na...". Shut the XXXX up!
I know many people will disagree but in my opinion the Katamari series is pointlessly irritating and totally weird in concept.
Crusty Demons – PS2
The brains behind this extreme sport’s title need their heads examined. At first, driving a motorbike off a ramp head-first into the side of a building and watching blood spurt everywhere and then being awarded points for which bones I had broken was admittedly quite good fun. After playing the game for half an hour or so, I began to question why anyone but a weirdo would enjoy such a game and why anyone but a bunch of weirdos would even come up with such a concept.
The more extreme your injuries the more points you are awarded and you even get a bonus for the length of the blood smear you leave on the ground.
Crusty Demons is shameless in its level of violence, gore, sexual references and profanities that run through its story-line and the incest jokes, cursing and bucket loads of blood tell you just as much about the developers as it does about the people who play this bizarre game.
I don’t mind blood and violence in videogames, not at all, but there’s absolutely no real point to it here apart from to gain a few shock points and perhaps sell a few extra copies. I don't think it worked.
Certainly the strangest extreme sport’s game I’ve ever played.
