Six years of Noby Noby Boy end with a wistful letter from 2009

Noby Noby Boy players have been united in a quest to help Girl connect all the planets in the Solar System since February 19, 2009. Each Boy fed his stretchy progress across multiple planets into the one intraplanetary Girl, but all that's over now. Girl reached the end of her journey yesterday by faceplanting back into Earth, and players were greeted with a finale that had been waiting to be witnessed for 2,489 days.

It's weird, and touching, and exactly the sort of message in a bottle you'd expect to receive from Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy. You can watch it here without having to do all that stretching:

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