The decline of the recording industry in recent years has some onlookers worried that music is losing ground as entertainment. But popular videogames such as Rock Band and the Guitar Hero series have become champions for tunes. While I enjoy tapping along with Black Sabbath as much as the next armchair virtuoso, it's still a simulation. I'm not actually making new music. So how do you create a game about music where the player really gets to generate his own beat? Sony's new role-playing adventure game, Patapon, for its PlayStation Portable device, may offer a fresh approach.
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. :)
once you play the demo, you never go, back, sony is innovation.
The idea of purchasing a PSP just continues to look more and more like an attractive choice.
God of War
Jeanne D'Arc
Final Fantasy Tactics
Syphon Filter
Patapon
If you keep doing what your doing Sony, you might just see a PSP patron out of me one day. Talk about the little handheld that could.
I may break out my PSP for this one.
The demo was awesome same with GOW!!!