Normally, in a video game review, a plot summary seems like a way to waste words. Not so with Katamari Damacy. Absurd yet amusing, this old Playstation 2 game – which deserves more attention than it’s getting – merits a storyline recap in which every sentence ends with an exclamation point. Behold:

When the King of All Cosmos, in a drunken stupor, accidentally destroys the stars, he commands you, his princely and puny son, to throw some twinkle back into the heavens! How?! By using a katamari – a sort of magnetic ball – to roll up anything and everything on Earth into clumps, and then hurl it all into the sky! With enough clumps, you’ll have successfully saved the starry night!

The gameplay is simple enough: Within a given time limit, you must roll up enough objects to reach a certain size. In fact, almost anybody can figure out the simple controls and experience one of the best and most original games in existence.

For example: You could begin small, rolling up thumbtacks, paperclips, mushrooms and mice. After a few mushrooms, though, you can grab batteries, and then basketballs, and then cats, and then people, and then cars and elephants and blimps and football stadiums and skyscrapers and mountains and rainbows! Eventually, once you’re large enough, you can grab clouds and gods. In theory, you could probably grab heaven. (Take that, organized religion!)

During each play, you will inevitably discover something new to pick up: a sumo wrestler juggling alligators, or maybe a squid battling it out with a robot. And, while the graphics aren’t great, the art design is phenomenal; it’s like a toy chest and an acid trip getting into a car accident in the middle of a jukebox jungle. Even better, the psychedelic soundtrack matches perfectly.

Indeed, it seems only a quote from the King of All Cosmos himself can do this hilariously epic and epically hilarious game justice: “We are moved to tears by the size of this thing.”