My bitterness aside, Patapon is a game on the PSP that I've been playing recently that is sort of hard to put into one genre. It's kind of a strategy game, kind of an action game and kind of a rhythm game all at the same time.
So the deal is that you are an drum playing God known to the Patapons as "Almighty", and using your drums you must guide your Patapon army to a place called Earthend so they can go and visit a thing called IT. The Patapons pilgrimage to see IT is sort of their entire purpose in life, but there is a rival clan called the Zigatons who have their own prophecy that involves stopping you no matter what.
It's a cool plot and considering I've not managed to beat the game yet I'm genuinely curious as to see if the Zigatons were at all justified in trying to wipe me out.
So the game play involves playing drums in rhythm to assign actions to your Patapon army. For example "Pata pata pata pon" (square square square circle) will make your army move foward on the 2D level. Other combinations of pata, pon and chaka will do different thinks like attack, defend, charge up etc. Between levels you are taken to a camp screen where you can change equipment, make new Patapons for your army or play rhythm mini games for bonus items.
It's a simple game but that doesn't meant it's easy because this game will fucking kick your ass sideways if you're not well prepared and cunning in battle. If you think you can just advance and attack your way through the game you will be wiped out faster than the blink of one of your little dudes eyes. This thing is hard and requires a great deal of preparation and planning before you can beat the later story missions, but when you do it the feeling of achievement is great.
So if you have a PSP and you have not played this, go fucking do it. If you can't find this but you can get hold of Patapon 2 or 3, go play them as well. I've not had much experience with the sequels but they can only get better really.
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