The Katamari Damacy twentieth anniversary falls on March 18, 2024, and Bandai Namco has ready quite a few items of merchandise and new music on a soundtrack plans to have a good time it. The corporate will steadily launch bodily items and digital soundtracks associated to the Katamari clump-rolling recreation sequence. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]
Bandai Namco has first launched a “KatamaRespect Remix” EP album that includes covers of Katamari Damacy sequence songs by Den-On-Bu characters, and this album is straight away obtainable on a number of on-line music platforms, together with Spotify and YouTube Music. The corporate will even launch a Katamari Damacy authentic soundtrack on the identical digital platforms in late March 2024.
Bandai Namco additionally revealed that it’s working with a number of firms to launch new Katamari merchandise. Torch Torch has opened orders for caps priced at 4,950 yen (~$33) and hoodies at 12,100 yen (~$81). Cake.jp can be promoting cake jars that includes Katamari Damacy characters for 1,200 yen (~$8) individually till June 2, 2024.
In the meantime, Animate will promote acrylic stands that includes all characters who appeared within the 2009 PS3 entry Katamari Eternally from April 18, 2024, till Might 20, 2024. House A la mode will even launch keychains of the Prince and different common cousins in July 2024.
The primary Katamari Damacy recreation got here out for PlayStation 2 in Japan on March 18, 2004. Previous to the twentieth anniversary, Bandai Namco launched the sport’s remaster, Katamari Damacy Reroll, for Nintendo Swap and PC in 2018, in addition to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2020. One other remaster for the 2005 sequel, We Love Katamari, can be obtainable since mid-2023 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X along with the aforementioned platforms.
