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Patapon 2 marches down the line

10:48 AM on 07.09.2008   |   Dale North

Patapon 2  marches down the line photo

The PSP rhythm-action title Patapon ate countless hours of my life when it was released earlier this year. Half the time I didn't know what the hell I was doing, but I couldn't put it down. Now I'm preparing to lose even more hours of my life to the newly announced Patapon 2.

Famitsu surprised readers this month with the announcement of this sequel, according to PSPWorld. This news was included in the magazine's spread on Loco Roco 2. Both games are being developed by Pyramid and produced by Japan Studios, just like their predecessors. 

Unfortunately that's all the details we have. I'm sure some Famitsu scans will pop up sooner or later.

Did you like the first Patapon? Would you be interested in a sequel?

[Image via canecodesign, check out the full picture after the jump]








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Novakaine's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 10:48
Novakaine
Pat-pat-pata-pon, pata-pata-pon.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 10:55
king3vbo
Patapon 300 FTW
Chibicon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:00
Chibicon
I had the chance to play the first one on a friend's PSP and I tought that while the concept itself was quite random, the gameplay makes it a Full-win game.

So, If I'm going to buy a PSP soon this will be on my "time-to-shop" list.
broonor's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:03
broonor
$20 for the sequel and I'm there!
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:09
Justice
That picture rocks, I'm still going through the original, though I don't play it that much these days.
xBBx's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:10
xBBx
I'm completely stoked about Patapon 2! I still play the original every so often to this day and I can't wait for some more Patapon goodness!
loki d20's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:16
loki d20
Would love to see the original and sequel get ported to the PSN.
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:19
mistic
awesome image, I've still got to give the first patapon a try... I loved LocoRoco so I'll be looking forward for the next iteration of that as well :-)
Robbo the hood's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:42
Robbo the hood
@loki d20

Yes please, I would love to get my hands on those games. We have the .iso for the game, can't anything be done?
Mystic Violet's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 11:59
Mystic Violet
Patapon 300?! If only it were true. :)

I'm so excited about this. The ending of the original Patapon hinted at a sequel but I didn't think it would come to fruition. It's nice to see how wrong I am.

I'm looking forward to Patapwning the next set of enemies into oblivion. :D
groebo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 12:01
groebo
in for one
Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 12:03
Crunshii
that pic is made of Win!
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 12:23
ScottyG
I suppose the biggest question is... will Jim Sterling be writing the Destructoid review for it? ;)
naia-the-gamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 12:39
naia-the-gamer
I hope they release the sequel for $20 too and not jack up the price with every subsequent sequel like they did with Katamari.

I like the idea of it being on the PSN! Have other PSP games that have made it onto PSN been upscaled or do they have the same res but on the bigger TV? That game would look gorgeous on an HDTV.

I'll go back to fantasizing over here...
Ravana's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 13:22
Ravana
Dum-da-dum-da-dum!
Kia's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 13:27
Kia
@ Naia

NO. NO PSN! For god's sake, enough with the goddamn digital distribution! Some people don't -LIKE- worrying about sticking crap on their memory sticks that they could have just gotten on UMD, but instead takes up a good 300MB-1GB of space. -_-

Not to mention the collector's value, secondhand market...For the love of god, why would you remotely want this released through PSN?!
Blackhat's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 13:39
Blackhat
A friend of mine brought the first Patapon to work one day. I am the only person he knows who failed the first (training) mission.

I do like the game, but man do I suck at it.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 14:09
mix
Hells yeah I want a sequel!
Josh Tolentino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 14:12
Josh Tolentino
An alternative PSN port would be great fun, methinks. Maybe not solely on the PSN for all the disc-huggers, but an upscaled Patapon would be quite nice.
Josh Tolentino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 14:12
Josh Tolentino
PON for the whole family!
monkeyspoon5's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/09/2008 16:39
monkeyspoon5
Pata-pata-pata-pon, pon-pon-pata-pon, chaka-chaka-pata-pon!
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/10/2008 09:23
Hitogoroshi
Man. I've the got the first one sitting here unopen.
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