Katamari creator coerced  Into sequel. Naughty Namco!  Katamari
Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has revealed that he originally
had no intention of making a sequel to the game - until
publisher Namco threatened to do one without him.  Speaking to
MTV news, Takahashi said that he has always preferred to make
original games, and had told his bosses more than once that a
second Katamari game was not something he was interested in.
"But it came to a point where the company was willing to release
a sequel without me," he said.  And to make matters worse, they
weren't even talking about a proper new game - just the old one
with Christmas graphics bunged in. A festively jazzed up re-
release, in other words, which Takahashi said was "Against
everything I wanted to do with Katamari."  So that was it - he
had the choice of creating another Katamari game, or watching
his baby have its limbs cut off and replaced with candy canes
while mince pies were forced into its eye sockets. Wisely, he
took the first option.  Nasty o