Beautiful Katamari - ending minigame - 934m88cm9mm on Normal

This minigame's officially called Katamari Kombat :D

I have recently learned that this minigame is notably different in the two games where it appears. One difference is that most everything picked up causes a little bit more growth in Beautiful Katamari. But to make up for that, most but not all objects require a bit less diameter to roll up in Katamari Forever.

I know the final result is a similar number to Punta's amazing world record in Katamari Forever, but my performance is not as good! I think Punta would reach over 1000m in Beautiful Katamari.

One of the most basic things about this minigame is that generally, maybe always, grabbing an object at full size is worth more diameter than grabbing all the mini-objects created by shooting it. Near the end I use this to my advantage by grabbing the Jumboman figure at full size at 3:00 and the katamari right before the King at 3:08. (In Katamari Forever I can sometimes grab the katamari at full size, but I've never managed to grab Jumboman without shooting him.)

This was the first time I've reached 440m before the end (barely). The fireworks cause more growth the bigger the katamari is right at the moment the screen pans way out at the end, and in Katamari Forever it seems the change happens every 10 meters (at 300m and 310m at least), so it is possible the change might happen every 10m in BK too in which case it may have been advantageous to reach 440m :) (Eek, that's a roundabout, poorly-written explanation that probably won't help anybody :) )

Hmmm, now I've recently uploaded a video of this minigame in KF on Hard and in BK on Normal ... now should I upload videos in BK on Hard and in KF on Normal? :P (I don't think I will unless someone wants to see them.)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• katamari
• minigame

[sloobro]

Oh, thanks and happy birthday!! Some people who put their videos up are still a lot better than me :) I link to some of them on my profile page.

[camouflage0912]

I just wanted to let you know that i love your katamari videos, i really enjoy watching them.~

[sloobro]

@camouflage0912 Awesome, thank you :) Sorry I don't post em more often.

[aoihopewind]

if I hadn't watched your video, I would never have figured out that you can shoot things to make them smaller >>

[legokidcam]

BTW, yesterday was my birthday!

[legokidcam]

You're getting REALLY good at katamari, sloobro! (I finally got back onto YouTube after all these years! JK after all these months)