Monday, 25 February 2008
The latest title from the team behind Loco Roco, is the marvelous Patapon!Seriously, if you have a PSP then drop that big bag of peanuts you're taking to feed your Hippo and go and buy it!
Well go on then!
What's that?
No! I'm sure you can't take a 20 kilo bag of peanuts into your local Game! I mean the peanuts would get everywhere!
Now GO! I'll wait till you get back.
Ah you're back, good. Well now I hope you can see why Patapon is so utterly brilliant. How has Sony not given these guys enough money to release games like this every year? I mean this game stands out; yes one must concede here that it's not got much to stand out against, but still. A rhythm action game so perfectly and cutely executed like this deserves to buy a team a new studio or something. Heck if they gave Ion Storm Dallas a Penthouse to create Daikatana, then surely the Patapon team should get a whole continent!
From the minute you load up the game and hear the surreal mix of African tribal drums with bagpipes, to the moment where your little Patapons first shout out your name as their God, till the moment you take down an end level boss with a perfectly executed series of button presses... this game is superb. And addictive too! With slick production values and numerous advances in the elements that made Loco Roco a hit, Patapon steamrollers into gaming greatness.
Many will probably miss Patapon though. Coming out in the gaming industry quiet period and recieving hardly any hype apart from on the dedicated gaming websites, I'm sure that it won't sell well either. Which is a shame because games like this is, have been sorely missing from, what I still believe to be an excellent gaming platform. It's amazing really how the team hasn't jumped ship with Sony seeming to give up on its handheld console. This type of 3rd party development is exactly what both the PSP and PS3 have been crying out for.
I won't go into more mechanics here as I wouldn't do this 2D scroller justice. If you lied to me when I told you to go and buy the game then click HERE to watch it in action. Truly a marvelous site to behold no?