Nintendo today held its latest games-focused Direct, which focused on games coming to the original Switch (as opposed to the soon-to-be-discussed Switch 2). Two of the games it revealed were Patapon ...

I was genuinely caught off guard by Patapon 1+2 Replay when I first saw it during the March 2025 Nintendo Direct. I know the rails have come almost all the way off in terms of first-party exclusivity, ...

Bandai Namco announced a collection of remasters of the first two Patapon games for the Nintendo Switch during the March 27, 2025 Nintendo Direct. It will be available on July 11, 2025. The ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Like Puzzle Quest before it, Patapon is a game that grabs key features from existing genres, squishes them together like different-colored balls of ...

At first glance, Patapon 2 almost looks like an expansion pack to the first game. The first few levels use the exact same color palette as the first game, the music is identical, and you even fight ...

PATAPON is an action adventure where players use the rhythm of four Mystical Drums to command cute and mysterious eyeball-like creatures known as Patapons. All Patapons have unique characteristics and ...

The Patapon series on the original PSP helped define the quirky and easygoing nature of the much-loved handheld. As one of the first of what you can call a Rhythm-Strategy game, Patapon was all about ...

The best word for Patapon 2 Remastered is crisp. There are a few minor exceptions to this assessment. The opening movie doesn’t have the same vibrancy as the rest of the game, especially when we’re ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

Recently at BitSummit, the annual indie game festival in Kyoto, Japan, Patapon creator Hiroyuki Kotani announced an upcoming Kickstarter campaign beginning on July 31 to fund a new music game that ...