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Patapon 3 Review
Patapon is an interesting franchise. Here at IGN, we gave the last two installments of the series PSP Game of the Year nods and even declared one of them the greatest PSP game of all time. However, if you're not dialed into Sony's handheld, there's a good chance you've never heard of this exclusive series. Hopefully, that'll change. Patapon 3 is an amazing game, and it's the pinnacle of the series to date, even if it does get tripped up on things that should've been ironed out years ago. Patapon 3 is a musical role-playing game. Using the four face buttons on my PSP, I pound out drumbeats in four-beat patterns. These songs are listed at the bottom of the PSP screen and command my warriors to attack, defend, jump and more; these songs are also catchy as hell as the tribe sings back whatever I enter. On a 2D plane with colors and animations that look like a cool cartoon, I drive my Patapons forward to knock down enemy forts and collect treasures. Most of that could be applied to the Pata-games that came before Patapon 3, but this threequel makes some interesting changes to keep things fresh. For starters, you're no longer an all-seeing god. Instead, you're an Uberhero who has the ability to revive himself in battle, unleash uber-powerful attacks, and summon ancient spirits to aid the team.
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If you're familiar with previous Patapon games, it might come as some surprise to you that in Patapon 3 you don't get to command an army. You're still a deity worshipped by the titular tribe, and you still get to issue the little guys orders by rhythmically tapping on sacred drums mapped to the PSP's face buttons, but the army has been turned to stone, so you have far fewer units at your disposal. All is not lost, though; not only have you been summoned into the body of a reincarnated hero, but there's so much emphasis on loot and leveling this time around that your small band grows more powerful practically every time you play. They can get so powerful, in fact, that where previous games have generally required careful strategizing to succeed, here it's often possible to forgo defensive and evasive moves in favor of an all-out offense. Still, there's plenty of challenge to be found in the colorful combat zones of Patapon 3, and even as you're decimated by a dragon or digested by a demon it's hard not to be won over by the game's quirky presentation and succumb to its just-one-more-try gameplay.
Patapon 3 Review
Patapon 3 starts with the annoying buzz of an amp being plugged in, as if some godawful garage band was about to rock out. Which is precisely what happens during the elaborately rendered cutscene that follows. Two things I didn't previously associate with Patapon were electric guitars and cutscenes. But that's how Patapon 3 opens, once you've manually paged through each of the 11 pages of the Online User Agreement. You'll be doing this every time you want to play Patapon 3. The opening is a pretty strong indication that you're no longer in Patapon 2 territory. This is the land of the new Patapons. They're bigger, more interactive, online, and presumably more appealing to those of you who didn't get Patapon. This isn't a charming single-player experience about a tribe of tiny joyful eyeballs worshipping you, the player, as you drum them on their way to a promised land, with parades and feasts between every battle. Now you are actually one of the patapons, with a scant three cohorts tagging along behind your avatar. You equip skills, grind character levels, render down useless loot to its components, and wait to no avail for multiplayer games in hopes of earning team points.
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The Patapon series is one of the few standout franchises on the PSP. When the original came out, it was clever and unique. Your troop of soldiers attacked, defended, and fled at your command. Rather than issuing commands like in a traditional RTS, you tapped the face buttons in rhythm with a metronome. Each sequence of beats issued a different order. Patapon 2 and 3 both work in the same way on the battlefield. The same old beat doesn't have to get stale, but this one unfortunately has.At first I was pleased to see the new systems in place. Rather than equipping and managing multitudes of soldiers, players only deal with four combatant characters, one of which is the super powered Uberhero who serves as your avatar. Everyone has decent armor and weapons, and you never have to worry about them permanently dying like in previous games. As you level up these different classes, new classes will splinter off from those, leaving a highly customizable battle group. After the first few stages get you on your feet with your go-to set of unit types, you start plowing through a variety of challenges like destroying forts, racing enemies to a finish line, and battling over territory.
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04/2011
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Review: Patapon 3
This third installment in the Patapon series stumbles a bit with unhelpful leveling and equipment systems, but the core rhythm-based battles are as toe-tappingly satisfying as ever. Patapon is a lot like the Katamari Damacy, PaRappa The Rapper, and Deception series in that they were all breakout games that made a big splash for Sony at first, but treaded water as more sequels came out. They all rightly caught a lot of attention for being unlike anything that had come before them, but then ran out of things to say or do when it came time to further capitalize on their respective successes. In short: Patapon 3 is virtually indistinguishable from its predecessor. Now, I'm not saying that doesn't make Patapon 3 worth playing -- because it is -- but there's a bit of an initial letdown as you realize, "Wait, I have played this before." Just get ready to do a bit of digging to get back into Patapon's familiar rhythm. Patapon 3 kicks off right where Patapon 2 left off, with the bridge built by the Patapons, Karmen, and Zigotons leading to a Pandora's box. So guess what: The cartoonish Patapons must band together once again to restore unity and peace to the land so everyone can sing a stirring round of kumbaya hallelujah.
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| Retailer | Information | Prices | |
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Patapon 3 - PlayStation Portable | $17.99 | See it |
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Patapon 3 | $19.99 | See it |
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Patapon 3 [Japan Import] | $65.88 | See it |
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