Sony evidently has no plans for the Patapon property anymore, so why not let someone else give the series some love?
It turns out Bandai Namco still has an eye for Japan Studio’s output, and so it’s single-handedly reviving the likes of Freedom Wars and Everybody’s Golf, under license of course.
This new trailer offers an overview of its upcoming Patapon 1+2 Replay bundle, which features the first two titles from Sony’s seminal rhythm RPG series.
Those of you who’ve already played these games won’t learn much new here, but some smart quality of life improvements have been incorporated, like difficulty settings and the ability to adjust the timing of the gameplay. (An important addition for those playing on potentially laggy displays.)
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Remember, this version of the game is coming to the Switch and PC as well, where it’ll likely find a larger audience due to the novelty of it expanding beyond PlayStation platforms.
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Sucks that Sony is significantly deprioritizing their smaller franchises, but at least they're licensing it to Bandai Namco, and it's nice that Patapon will be available on modern hardware.
Hopefully this collection does well so that we can finally get a new Patapon
moviegame!I tried the Patapon games through Ps+, but they just didn’t hook me like I thought they would. Maybe Bandai Namco will bring some new life to the series. That said, I really wish Sony would buy the rights to the Katamari games from Bandai Namco. I’d love to see a new entry in that series from a different perspective, and since Sony is so good with implementing their Dualsense haptic controller features into their games, it’d be a great series to do it with.
@jgrangervikings1 Imagine the Katamari franchise in the hands of Team Asobi 👍
It's a smart idea to release it on other platforms too, to help generate more sales and hopefully open the door for more revivals like this.
I owned Patapon 1 remastered and Patapon 2 on Vita. So i'm gonna stick with what i already have.
But looking at Freedom Wars remaster very low sales, i doubt this remaster will sold well or even trigger Sony to make Patapon 4.
Another reason to dip in on a 3rd format!
I love this game back on the psp. Wishlist it on steam and of course going to play it on my deck oled. Revived my childhood memories 😆
@PuppetMaster From what I understand these seem to be relatively low effort ports/remasters and Freedom Wars was already a mixed reception game, I don't know what they thought would happen re-releasing it so close to the new Monster Hunter.
@Get2SammyB Welcome to the Hermen Hulst reign of Worldwide Studios wherein he greenlighted buying Bungie for billions, loving their "expertise" so much he let other Bungie staff be spun off to waste millions on likes of Concord etc.,(& buy those startups as separate entities too despite having zero track record of success), splurge on mobile devs & PC devs, but couldn't fund some specialist dev studios (or waste Bluepoint on a live service God of War themed title reportedly),to handle classic IP's or say port some PS3 era first party titles to modern day gens?!
Maybe if he wasn't so besotted with playing favourites amongst Worldwide Studios, TV show spin offs & creating/finding his first party Fortnite pot of gold at the expense of ignoring a back catalogue of classic IP's they wouldn't be suffering the mismanagement they largely have this generation.
It might’ve started under Jim Ryan appointing Hulst as his yes man,but how Hulst has remained is unfathomable. Shawn Layden or Shuhei Yoshida whom knew their PS Gaming history from obscure to major titles is a trait completely lacking in Hulst.
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