{"id":15297,"date":"2016-08-12T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15297"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:49:06","slug":"tap-my-katamari-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/tap-my-katamari-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap My Katamari (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TAP_BOX\"<\/a>So there\u2019s this new genre of mobile games called \u201cIdle Clickers\u201d or \u201cEndless Clickers,\u201d and all you do is tap on the screen repeatedly to make something happen.\u00a0 Like build a town or whatever.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been getting countless press releases and announcements about these kinds of games, but so far I\u2019ve refused to review them because I think the idea is stupid.\u00a0 But when they made an Endless Clicker based on Katamari Damacy, one of my favorite video game series, I just had to try it, especially since I missed out on the other mobile Katamari offerings.\u00a0 So here you go, a review of a game in a genre I probably won\u2019t write about ever again.\u00a0 Hopefully.\u00a0 Tap My Katamari is available for free on iOS and Android, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just like in the other Katamari games, you play as the Prince of All Cosmos.\u00a0 Your father, the King (who barfs rainbows), has tasked you to roll up objects with a sticky ball called a Katamari, so he can make stars out of them.\u00a0 So it\u2019s kind of like rolling a snowball.\u00a0 You roll the ball forward in this game from left to right in 2-D fashion.\u00a0 Each tap on the screen makes the ball roll.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all there is to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you roll up an object, you get coins.\u00a0 Coins can buy you all sorts of stuff. You can use them to level up the Prince so he rolls farther with each tap.\u00a0 You can also buy power-ups for the Prince to use by tapping a button on the screen, and then you must wait a while to use it again.\u00a0 You can also level up power-ups as well. \u00a0Coins can also call the Prince\u2019s cousins.\u00a0 Cousins are handy because they\u2019ll get coins for you while you aren\u2019t playing.\u00a0 They can be levelled up as well.\u00a0 Candy and Stars are two other types of currency, but they are harder to get.\u00a0 They can buy things like temporary power-ups that\u2019ll multiply your coins or level for a short while.\u00a0 Sometimes you can also simply view an in-game ad to activate these powers as well.\u00a0 Every now and then the King\u2019s head will float by.\u00a0 Tap it to get a treasure, like coins, candy, or a power-up that can be activated by viewing an ad.<\/span><\/p>\n

After every ten distance markers, you\u2019ll have to do a time attack mode where you must tap fast enough to reach the next distance before the timer runs out.\u00a0 At first this is easy to do, but later on it gets harder.\u00a0 Make sure you buy the charge power-up as soon as you can, as it\u2019s the only way to make those distances in time.\u00a0 And sometimes you just have to level up the Prince enough, too.\u00a0 This is what really slows the game down later on.\u00a0 Also, Katamari games are known for their music.\u00a0 Here you have a selection of about half a dozen songs that are remixes of tunes from past Katamari games (Katamari on the Swing, Lonely Rolling Star, etc.).\u00a0 But the remixes are very repetitive.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve liked to have the original, longer songs, and more of them to choose from.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

As expected, Tap My Katamari is a disappointment.\u00a0 It\u2019s sad that this is what some games have become.\u00a0 I think the only people who would really like these Endless Clicker games are the ones who always feel they need to rap and drum their fingers on a table, which annoys everyone else.\u00a0 This is one gaming trend I hope dies out quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"TAP_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here, although much, much later on in the game you can roll up living things like animals and people.\u00a0 I would say this would be the perfect game for little kids, since all you do is tap on the screen.\u00a0 But parental supervision is still recommended because of the ads and in-game purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there\u2019s this new genre of mobile games called \u201cIdle Clickers\u201d or \u201cEndless Clickers,\u201d and all you do is tap on the screen repeatedly to make something happen.\u00a0 Like build a town or whatever.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been getting countless press releases and announcements about these kinds of games, but so far I\u2019ve refused to review them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15299,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297\/revisions\/15299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}