Chris Selogy of Gamer 2.0 writes, "It's nice to see these quirky games appearing just before the onslaught of great, more traditional titles that are about to hit the PSP in the near future. Not only does it bring you back to the system and keep you interested, but having God of War and the next Final Fantasy VII spin-off coming out within the next month is sure to keep PSP owners entertained until the next big console releases hit in April.
Anyway, Patapon is the next big game coming out of Sony's camp that not only has the unique visual style that games like Loco Roco have, but features gameplay that infuses rhythm and tactical strategy for a deeper experience than you'd expect from just a quick glance at the game. We got our hands on the demo, which gives us much hope that we'll be dancing to the beat of a different drum later this month."
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "Despite its somewhat anaemic lineup of backwards-compatible titles (unusual in light of the genre’s strong pedigree on Sony consoles), Vita’s selection of rhythm games is highly impressive in the modern market with genre favourites like DJMax, Hatsune Miku and Taiko no Tatsujin all present and plenty of quirky oddities like Deemo, Love Live & Persona thrown in for good measure. You’re definitely going to need to try your hand at importing to get the most of the genre here, but that shouldn’t be an issue thanks to region-free hardware and easy-to-grasp gameplay."
It seems that Sony is slowly working on bringing select classic titles from its classic consoles back on PlayStation 4 as remasters.
Who’ll be next?
"Announced at PSX 2016, PaRappa the Rapper Remastered finally has a release date in Japan."
I would've preferred Legend of Dragoon instead. Or better yet just for Sony to make PS1 Classics playable on PS4 just like they did with PS2.
Just remastering this game by itself just seems rather weird.
Yeah it does, they get to make more money. Why release classics when they can slap remaster on it, do a little polish, and sell it for $20 instead of sub $10
It would have been slightly better with Um Jammer Lammy too (I know its not the 20th Anniversary of that but still). Parappa was unlockable and was playable in the entire game again but with lyrics now instead of jamming to the tunes with Lammy. Its essentially another Parappa game then. :)
This game still looks weird to me. Charming, but weird.