It’s a little janky but once you get the controls it’s pretty fun

I’ve played these games ever since the first one and loved most of them, for the first new one since 2012 I was hoping for something a bit better than what this turned out to be, which is an alright game with great localisation and music held back by less than stellar level design, bad collision, item size issues, invisible walls, and overall odd decisions. It’s still fun, it’s katamari. Especially some of the gimmick stages are fantastic, they give some of the other stages in the franchise a run for its money, and those ones are great, but the game is padded out with a lot of very strict speed missions, which you’ll have to complete a lot of, at some point you’ll need more subscribers to continue on, you’ll have to either perfect almost all stage some of which are unreasonably tough or farm subs by replaying other stages over and over again. This is easily the hardest game in the franchise, but it also has the clunkiest gameplay and quite a couple quirks that get in the way. It won’t be rare you’ll bump into something smaller than the thing you just rolled up, or simply be stopped by a giant invisible wall for no reason, these make some of the unforgiving time limits and need to perfect everything a lot more intense and not as laid back as other games in the series, you’ll have to tackle the challenge head on instead of seeking it out. If like me you got Apple Arcade just for this, it’s worth a month, but know you’re not missing out on much, if there’s any gsme in this series you have not played, play that first while you wait for a month free trial or something.