If you just keep rolling on the North Star level, The King will eventually come in and shut you down.

My question is, how big can you get before the level shuts down? I'm guessing you get shut down at 15 meters. How close can you come?

Just to have a mark to shoot at, I rolled a 12 meter 20 cm katamari last night.

if the king ends the level for you, how do you find out what your size was? As soon as you get the "next size transform" is when the king pulls you out of the level. not sure what size that is though.

Right -- you can't tell. I'm estimating 15 meters. If someone can verify a 14.9 but no one can get a 15.1, then we'll have a good idea of the limit. :china

I've tried several times to cut my endless gathering off before the next size zoom-out, but the closest I get is 12m 47cm. My katamari really fills up the whole screen and I have no idea where I am going at that point. Maybe the cutoff is 13m?

I do know minimum size before ending the level is 5m exactly. The King won't let you end before that.

I believe your Katamari already starts off at 1 meter....i just stoped once i could pick up trees...and i think the size the king picks you up at is...15 meters

I'm pretty sure you definitely start at more than one meter. You can already pick up basically every person, so you have to be more than 2 meters right there. Besides, Seabreeze Town is already open, and you have to be more than three meters to access that area in any other stage (Unless you knock a bunch of stuff off after you reach 3 meters)...

Figuring out the starting time might be something to tackle, too. It could probably be found out with a bunch of painstaking use of the pause screen in Eternal 3, comparing the relative number of canned curries or whatever other small objects...

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