Today I finally got back to completing some more stages in We Love Katamari. A couple of them were the traditional size-x-in-time-y stages, with the school one being a bit more interesting just by way of being a somewhat more confined space.

A couple more stages were again ones that you couldn’t really lose, and your goal is just to do as well as you can, by rolling up items and being scored by their cash value in one of the stages, and by trying to get the biggest cow or bear possible in the other. The latter one is particularly frustrating because, of course, there are cows and bears everywhere so you have to be careful and try to avoid the small ones while rolling up a ball big enough to get a big cow or bear. I gave up after a few attempts and made do with a guy in a bear costume.

And the last one for today was a fairly simple time attack, where you have to pick up 100 items as fast as possible. The twist here is that there are only 100 items in the whole stage, so you have to backtrack and pick up *everything*.

Looks like I still have a ways to go, as there are at least seven people around the main map asking for help, so it’ll probably take a couple more nights to finish. I’m also playing it on the PS3 now, and although I’m not sure it really loaded any faster, saving games is almost instantaneous now.