Grant Holzhauer of Gamedaily writes: There are games that try to build upon and evolve an established formula, and then there is Patapon. By melding two genres together, rhythm and strategy, Patapon provides what amounts to a completely new type of game. Playing as the Mighty Patapon, you beat the war drums that lead the patapons into battle against their foes, the Zigatons, in order to reach earthend, where they hope to find the mysterious "It." At first glance, you might find the game to be simplistic, but don't let the minimalist art design and music fool you; this is an immensely challenging and rewarding game.
The music comes from Kemmei Adachi, the man behind Locoroco, so you know immediately that you're in for a treat. Patapon's soundtrack isn't quite as robust as that game, simply because the focus is more on drum beats than melodies, but the tunes are still undeniably catchy, and it won't take long for "pon pon pata pon" to get engrained in your brain. In addition, what the visuals lack in substance, they make up for in style. The patapons themselves are incredibly personable, and the environments and enemies look like they were ripped straight from the classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are.
Despite replaying levels, there are always new treasures to unearth and more story to reveal. Patapon is obscure, but hopefully not to the point that the casual gamer will not overlook it, for it's one of the most original and refreshing (not to mention fun) games to grace the PSP.
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. :)
