Cousin June

[ChrisLov1271]

I have been trying to get her out of the tank but now I am wondering if I just roll up the tank when I am big enough will I get credit for her? If not is there any help someone can give me to get this cousin out of that fish tank? lol Making me crazy here! lol

[Shinobi273]

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?p=530929#post530929

Is there a trick to getting cousin June, the one in the fishtank? I can get onto the fishtank, but can't reach her.. =/

Edit - NVM got her, I was trying to get her when I was way small, turned out I had to beef up to get her

Welcome to the site. Use the search next time, all I did was advanced search this forum, Beautiful Katamari, search individual posts for the words "Cousin" and "June". If you still can't get it, I suggest that you PM D1SC0NNECTED (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/member.php?u=3197).

[ChrisLov1271]

Yes, thank you. However, I have read that thread. It doesn't help me. When I get a little bigger I can not get down into the tank to pull her out. I asked if I get her by rolling up the entire tank. Usually by the time I am big enough to roll up the tank I never go back inside the house. (Yes that means I don't have that pressie from inside there either) I really have a difficult time rolling. I have tried tips from hundreds of people. I still stink. 98% of the time, I can't even get the katamari the size he wants it to be. So going back to get stuff is not usually something that I can manage.

[TKD 117]

Coincidentally, I just helped someone else with this problem at the end of the presents/cousins thread. Seems to be a common gotcha.

You do need to actually grab the tank (which is blocking access to June) first, then roll her up. I don't know off-hand exactly how big you need to be, but my general strategy for Coolhouse includes the following:

- Get to roughly ~45-60cm outside. Piles of drinks, billiard balls, Xbox 360 controllers, and cactus plants will help. There are a number of different routes that you can take here; the important thing is to grab as much as possible, but not to spend too much time in one specific area. In the end, the difference between grabbing 98 smaller items and 100 smaller items is negligible. Once you get to 37cm or so, you can start picking up Xbox 360 consoles, which will help your size a lot.
- Enter the house and immediately head for the room on the side of lobby, where
there is a huge stash of Xbox 360s. Grab most/all of them.
- Head to the other side of the lobby and grab most/all of the dartboards.
- By this time, you should be close to 1m and large enough to grab the TVs and the tank in the center of the lobby.

The last three steps should ideally bring you from ~50cm to close to 1.20m very quickly. Clearing the lobby area is crucial to getting a large katamari in this stage.

[ChrisLov1271]

Thanks so much! So I guess when you say I have to get the tank first then get her that means just a brush by to pick up the tank or can I roll it over and she will remain there?

[TKD 117]

Generally, in my experience, you won't pick up June with the tank automatically in one step. I suppose it could theoretically be possible to do so, but the tank is significantly larger than she is. You'll almost definitely need to pick up the tank to "uncover" June first, and then consciously roll her up after that.

[ChrisLov1271]

Thanks so much. I have managed now to get June and Sherman out of here. I also got 1 of the 2 presents but I just can't get big enough in time to get into that back room where the last present is. gah! I am trying again and again tho lol

[TKD 117]

Keep trying; you'll get it eventually. :) If you need any additional pointers:

- After you grab the TVs (and drawers in the corner), go back outside and clean up the larger objects (e.g., lotus leaves if you didn't get them earlier, penguins, other animals, and ideally the humans). Keep an eye on the time. You want to have at least 30 seconds or more for the next step.
- Between ~1.60m and 1.80m (the game won't let you back in if you're larger), re-enter the house and head up the stairs, grabbing the fish in the corner near the side room on the way if you didn't earlier.

As a bonus, if you can make it to the upper room with at least a few seconds to roll around, you'll probably get the 100 points (for which the cutoff tends to be around 1.90m, possibly slightly less). There are a lot of large objects there.