{"id":55780,"date":"2018-10-18T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/you_can_thank_the_gamecube_for_katamari_damacy_according_to_creator_keita_takahashi"},"modified":"2018-10-18T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T00:20:00","slug":"you-can-thank-the-gamecube-for-katamari-damacy-according-to-creator-keita-takahashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/you-can-thank-the-gamecube-for-katamari-damacy-according-to-creator-keita-takahashi\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Thank The GameCube For Katamari Damacy, According To Creator Keita Takahashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df27e9a44f92d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df27e9a44f92d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Katamari Damacy REROLL Image 1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df27e9a44f92d\/katamari-damacy-reroll-image-1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df27e9a44f92d\/katamari-damacy-reroll-image-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Katamari Damacy REROLL Image 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/katamari_damacy_reroll\">Katamari Damacy Reroll<\/a><\/strong> arrives on the Switch at the end of November. This is the first time a game in the series will be made available on a Nintendo platform. As previously noted, it&#8217;s a slightly enhanced version of the original Namco title first released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a new book about the game &#8211; <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/bossfightbooks.com\/products\/katamari-damacy-by-l-e-hall\">due out later this week<\/a> &#8211; has revealed the prototype of Katamari Damacy was on the GameCube. As the platform was apparently much more developer-friendly, Keita Takahashi and his inexperienced team at the time decided to work with Nintendo&#8217;s latest system. In saying this, the intention was always to release the game on the PlayStation 2:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our engineer didn\u2019t have much expertise, and neither did I, and the schedule was tight&#8230;So for these reasons we picked the Nintendo GameCube platform for prototyping. I wanted to use the PS2 controller though.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not long ago, Takahashi said he was bothered by the &#8220;gap between story and the system&#8221; in <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> and confessed the Switch didn&#8217;t hold his attention after he was done with this game and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong>. In the same <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/random_katamari_director_wasnt_impressed_with_mario_or_zelda_on_switch\">interview<\/a>, he also said how much he enjoyed <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/reviews\/ps4\/the_last_guardian\">The Last Guardian<\/a><\/strong> on the PlayStation 4. Regardless of his gaming preferences, without Nintendo, Katamari Damacy and future entries in the series may have never happened.<\/p>\n<p><em>Knowing this, would you have liked a Katamari game on the GameCube? Are you excited about the upcoming release of Reroll on Switch? Are you a fan of Takahashi? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katamari Damacy Reroll arrives on the Switch at the end of November. This is the first time a game in the series will be made available on a Nintendo platform. As previously noted, it&#8217;s a slightly enhanced version of the original Namco title first released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004. Interestingly, a new book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}