When did Touch My Katamari come out?

Touch My Katamari was released on 17 December 2011 for PlayStation Vita.

Touch My Katamari (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Touch My Katamari

Roll up some fun with this portable entry in the beloved Katamari Damacy franchise. In Touch My Katamari, the ever-growing ball of bits and bobs is controlled by touching the screen or using both analog…

63 17 December 2011

What Touch My Katamari is

Touch My Katamari is an adventure game developed by Namco Bandai Games and released in 2011. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Long ago, the King of All Cosmos brought light to the sky and replaced the stars of the universe, giving the people of Earth a beautiful portrait and a source of great inspiration. This, as you might imagine, made the King of All Cosmos tremendously popular. And he savored that popularity until a normal family -- in a discussion about the King's awesomeness -- mentioned that the King and the local school principal were equally cool. This horrified the King of All Cosmos. The King then confesses to his son The Prince, that he had been a bit lazy and that there was no wonder that Katamari Damacy fans were disappointed, he instructs The Prince to roll katamaris that the King can eat to make…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Touch My Katamari holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Touch My Katamari launched on 17 December 2011, within three weeks of Mario Kart 7, Trine 2, Age of Empires III: Complete Collection and Star Wars: The Old Republic. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 7, Trine 2, Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Official trailer