I've started Beautiful Katamari on the xbox 360. The freakiness quotient remains high enough that I'm in a constant cycle of as I play.

For those who aren't familiar with the series, the idea is to roll a sticky ball (aka katamari) around and pick up objects. The more objects you pick up the larger your katamari is. A larger katamari will pick up larger objects. The game smoothly scales so that it's possible to start a level struggling to pick up pins, and end it by rolling up the great pyramid! That's weird. What pushes it over into freakiness is the character design, the visual style, and - especially - the King of All Cosmos.

I blame Kekvit Irae entirely. She got me to try the series. It's her fault.

This is a short game, by any standards. After a couple of hours I've made a katamari big enough to replace the sun. That means two levels at the most remaining before I have to wait for the downloadable extra levels to appear on the PAL marketplace. I shall amuse myself by collecting cousins and presents for a bit.