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Amazing Katamari Damacy

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I had not even finished Katamari Damacy REROLL yet, and I was already looking for more. That game was excellent, and if I have self-control issues with anything, it's video games. Now, Amazing Katamari Damacy was delisted a while ago, but I downloaded it for a bit when it was still around, so I was able to flick through my Play Store library a bit and download it again. When I first tried it a few years ago, I had no background in the Katamari series and didn't end up playing for long. I figured that this time around would be different since I was familiar with the mainline games, but I ended up dropping the game just as quick as the first time. Turns out, in stark contrast to its source material, I find this game to be pretty uninspired. Amazing Katamari Damacy is a score-based runner. While the genre has been done to death by now, there's still room for innovation and excellence, especially if you are true to the property that the game represents (*cries in Spider-Man Unl

Galaga Wars

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I absolutely love the Galaga series. The gameplay is deceptively simple and incredibly rewarding. Every once in a while, I'll check the Play Store to see if there's finally a good way to get my fix, but I'm always disappointed to find that Galaga Wars is still the only option. I recently decided to give it another chance and it immediately reminded me why I stopped playing so quickly the first time around. Galaga has had some amazing mobile releases in the past, like the Tekken crossover, or the 30th-anniversary collection, but Galaga Wars fails miserably at meeting any of the standards set by its predecessors. The saddest thing about this game to me is that it actually has the foundation to be a pretty great mobile interpretation of an arcade classic, but someone decided that intrusive ads and predatory micro-transactions were more important than the integrity of the franchise. It's almost unbelievable how many ways they try to squeeze something out of you. Even the ve