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?
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10:48 AM on 07.09.2008
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So, If I'm going to buy a PSP soon this will be on my "time-to-shop" list.
Yes please, I would love to get my hands on those games. We have the .iso for the game, can't anything be done?
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
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...
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?!
I do like the game, but man do I suck at it.