{"id":19910,"date":"2020-02-21T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19910"},"modified":"2020-02-06T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:42:52","slug":"wattam-ps4-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/21\/wattam-ps4-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Wattam (PS4, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Those of you who know me may also know that I\u2019m a huge fan of Katamari Damacy.\u00a0 It was my Game of the Year back in 2004 and aside from a couple of early mobile offerings, I\u2019ve played every game in the series since.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve also played other games from the Katamari creator, like Noby Noby Boy and I really want to get the Play Date handheld for his other game, but it may be too expensive.\u00a0 So you can imagine my surprise and delight when I visited Annapurna\u2019s booth at PAX South<\/strong><\/a> and found out they were publishing another game by the Katamari creator, and it\u2019s every bit as weird and charming as his other works.\u00a0 And I was even more happy that I get to review it!\u00a0 The game is called Wattam and it\u2019s available on PS4 and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

When I asked about Wattam at PAX South, the lady at Annapurna said it was hard to describe.\u00a0 And after playing it, I\u2019d have to agree, but I\u2019m going to try anyway!\u00a0 So you start in a world that has been ravaged by an apocalyptic event.\u00a0 You play as a walking green cube with a bowler derby hat called The Mayor.\u00a0 As the Mayor, it\u2019s your job to make friends and help others so you can grow the world again.\u00a0 As you make friends and bring happiness to them, you\u2019ll open up more flat areas you can explore that represent the four seasons.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll make friends and bring happiness in one of two ways.\u00a0 Your Mayor character has the ability to tip his hat, and make a present come out.\u00a0 This present will explode and send anyone around it sky high.\u00a0 But don\u2019t worry, the residents of this world think that\u2019s fun and great, and will become happy.\u00a0 The other way is to do fetch quests for other characters.\u00a0 Sometimes you may need to switch out a character with another special ability to fulfill a request.\u00a0 Once you befriend someone, you can play as them, by the way.\u00a0 Some characters, like trees, can eat other characters and turn them into walking fruit.\u00a0 And there is a walking mouth that can eat that fruit and turn it into living poop (think the poop emoji on your phone).\u00a0 And then a walking toilet can flush the poop down and turn it into golden poop.\u00a0 But don\u2019t worry, you don\u2019t hurt anyone when you do any of this. In fact, the characters seem to enjoy it as they\u2019ll say stuff like, \u201cYay!\u00a0 I\u2019m poop now!\u201d\u00a0 There are ways to change characters back to normal as well, by the way.<\/p>\n

One of the problems with this game is that since it\u2019s so weird (as you can probably tell by now), that sometimes the goals and objectives may be a little unclear.\u00a0 For instance, you may have to make a crying island happy by surrounding it with water.\u00a0 But the only way to do this is bring an onion to it so it can cry harder to make an ocean around it.\u00a0 So you have to play as a tree, eat someone and hope it randomly turns into an onion, and then bring the onion back to the island.\u00a0 But to me, the onion looks like half an apple, so it was a bit confusing at first.<\/p>\n

Other problems the game has includes problematic camera angles and play control.\u00a0 Adjusting the camera can be frustrating sometimes, and actions like switching out characters is also annoying.\u00a0 Way late in the game they tell you that you can switch out characters via a menu, which I wish I would\u2019ve known about that earlier!\u00a0 Other actions, like climbing on characters and holding hands with them, is also harder than what it needs to be sometimes.\u00a0 And finally, the game is awfully short and you can beat it in a couple of days.\u00a0 Although there is some replay value to be had in finding all the missing friends.<\/p>\n

But even with those problems, I still enjoyed playing Wattam.\u00a0 If you are like me and enjoy silly and wacky games such as Katamari Damacy, then you\u2019ll definitely want to check out Wattam.\u00a0 The Prince from Katamari even makes a cameo appearance in this game, too!\u00a0 How cool is that?<\/p>\n

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

Wattam is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Crude Humor and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 So yeah, you can turn characters into poop and play as them, so that\u2019s where the crude humor comes in.\u00a0 But they just look like rainbow colored poop emoji and have flies around them and when you play as anyone turned into poop, they play farting noises in the music.\u00a0 There are also only two accounts of violence in this game.\u00a0 You can blow up other characters, but it doesn\u2019t seem to hurt them and they say \u201cWheee!\u201d as they fly through the air.\u00a0 In another instance, you play as a piece of sushi and throw fish eggs at a giant rampaging doll.\u00a0 But aside from some light reading required, I could see young kids goofing around with this game and laughing at all the silly characters that giggle and babble as they wobble about.\u00a0 The game can even teach some intrapersonal skills as you must find characters who are sad or mad and figure out how to make them happy again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who know me may also know that I\u2019m a huge fan of Katamari Damacy.\u00a0 It was my Game of the Year back in 2004 and aside from a couple of early mobile offerings, I\u2019ve played every game in the series since.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve also played other games from the Katamari creator, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19910","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\/19910","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=19910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19912,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910\/revisions\/19912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}