Patapon 2: hold your drummers!!!

Review:

This is a little late and a little... little. But as I am not yet an established reviewer of mobile games, I had to wait before I purchased Patapon 2. I have been a commited fan of the title ever since I heard the first rumors about the concept in the gaming grapewines.
Now there is a number two. More drumming more fun - what?

For those of you who lived somewhere without the basic necessities of civilised life, such as a PSP, internet and clean water: this is a game of outrageous hillariousness where you get to play a long lost God, ruling a long lost tribe of one-eyed black little creatures with vaguely humanoid features.
Maybe i didn't sell the concept all that well there. Any way. Patapon 1 was one of the most innovative games comming out for the PSP. Made by the same team which gave us Loco Roco for the PSP and okami for the ps2. Made by the same hands that gave us pocket games, coke and singlehandedly invented the internet. maybe no. But in my oppinion the lead designer Hiroyuki Kotan has a status closely related to Godhood.

Now - there hasn't been a lot of love for the PSP owners and we continually whine about it in high pitched nasal voices. Just like the little creatues you send towards death and glory and the ends of the world. And er... it is just like the first installment of there series. Oh wait a minute - there is Death from above for your enemies in the shape of warrios in birds. You get to upgrad heroes, which is not a bad idea. It was unfortunenately expliotied in a lot of previous titles. But the thought is good - there are a lot of hero-based games out there. WoW, WAR, EVE, GW etc.
I really think that this game is more fun than most other games and it caters for the format of the PSP: something a lot of other games and gamedesigners forget. But mostly I am in love with the idea of a succesfull series for the PSP here in in the western countries. But I still think that Patapon 1 is that game. Go buy it - then come back for more.

/Jacob