- Publisher: Bandai Namco Games
- Release Date: Jul 11, 2025
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 5
- Summary:
- Developer: Bandai Namco Games, SAS CO.,LTD.
- Genre(s): Miscellaneous, Compilation
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 27
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Mixed: 8 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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Jul 16, 2025Patapon 1+2 Replay doesn't aim to reinvent the formula, but it does refine and adapt it to current standards. It retains its gameplay, improves technical aspects, and enhances the player's experience without altering the essentials. If you've ever shouted "Pon Pon Pata Pon" while marching to the beat of the drum, this re-release is pure nostalgia. If you've never played it, this is the ideal way to understand why these games were so special.
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Jul 18, 2025Patapon 1+2 Replay delivers a faithful remaster of two beloved rhythm-strategy classics. With improved visuals, performance, and new accessibility options, it shines on Switch—despite lacking bonus content and showing minor input lag issues in handheld mode.
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Jul 10, 2025While Patapon 1+2 Replay is a pretty straightforward rerelease of its PSP counterparts, it remains an incredibly unique and deeply engaging set of games.
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Jul 23, 2025Not much has been added to Patapon 1+2 Replay, but these two rhythm game oddities are as fun to play as they were eighteen years ago.
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Jul 21, 2025With the release of PATAPON 1+2 Replay comes vibrant and wonderful flashbacks to a colourful, vibrant, arcade-y and, most importantly, fun, era of games that don’t really exist anymore. It was a joy for me to visit these games for the first time, and I’m finally well invested in the majesty and magic of the RTS and rhythm fusion harmony that the franchise is known for. With how grandiose and exciting the battles get with their devotion to music and busy, frantic chaos that explode across the screen, I’d be hard-pressed to find any fan, new or old, who doesn’t find joy here, smiling like a huge dork as your units chant and stomp across the world. Though there’s still the oddball of funk, including some poor tutorialisation in the first game and real brick wall moments that require grind, I’m glad PATAPON is back in a largely unaffected package. Players should jump right into this here nostalgia-infused release. The water’s fine, and you’ll be remembering the Patapons’ spirit songs for years to come.
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Sep 4, 2025Two of the most original and addictive games you can get your hands on, and at a reduced price. OK as a remaster, too simple as a compilation.
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Jul 25, 2025In theory, I understand why people like Patapon so much. It’s cute, there’s a primal satisfaction in staying on beat, and the shrill “Pata-Pata-Pata-Pon” chanting along with your commands is something I can see being infectious in a Tetris Effect sort of way. But every time I played, all I could think was, is this really it? This is the PSP’s premiere music game that everyone loves? Parappa was sent to cross the rainbow bridge for this? How can I be this bored playing a game about music? These questions may haunt me forever. Or at least until I go back to the local arcade for a few rounds of Pop‘n Music.