More Patapon 2 news (it’s coming quite quickly don’t you think?). This from a post at PSP News:
“In an interview with Famitsu Magazine, Patapon 2 developer Hiroyuki Kotani has revealed that the sequel will include roughly twice as much content as the original game. This means more levels, more bosses, and more playable characters.”
How great will that be? I spent 20+ hours playing the first Patapon and probably didn’t even discover half the weapons and other items, so I can see Patapon 2 eating up quite a bit of my time when it’s released… oh well!
Plus, and this will no doubt be some welcome news for those who liked the game but found it a tad too hard, Patapon 2 will go some way to making things just a little easier:
“Kotani has included some features to make the game more accessible to rhythm game n00bs like us, such as a more relaxed timing system and visual cues for beats.”
I know this will make some of the guys at work happy…
1UP have posted some more info on how the new multiplayer in Patapon 2 will work.
“Without a doubt, four-player ad-hoc multiplayer is the biggest new addition to the Patapon sequel, tentatively titled Patapon 2. The idea behind the co-op multiplayer mode is simple. In Patapon 2’s single-player story mode, you’ll occasionally come across giant eggs — some of which contain helpful items, some of which hold smaller eggs inside. In order to hatch these suckers, you’ll have to team up with other players and navigate a special enemy-laden multiplayer battleground, using the traditional pata-pata-pata-pon drumbeat to heft the egg forward and defending it whenever monsters loom nearby. Once you arrive at the special egg-hatching altar at the end of the field, all four players will perform a hatching ceremony, a sort of tribal drumline where everyone has to match their rhythms together to crack open the egg. ”
People liked Patapon so much that Sony Computer Entertainment Japan went and decided to put out another. That’s right, this winter Japan will see Patapon 2. While the previous title was single player, the sequel will feature four player multi-player mode as well as new characters. PON-PON-PATA-PON!
