As you play the game you will unlock all four drums, different beats you can play, which will allow your Patapons to perform actions. You will also unlock new units, miracle spells and fancy-awesome new weapons for your guys. Patapon 2 expanded on this by adding multi-player, more drum beats, more miracles, more units and a hero character that is supposed to be the best of the best.

The stories follow one another as you go from Patapon to Patapon 2, and Patapon 3 is supposed to follow suit. So if you’re played the first two, or even if you haven’t, be ready for a new campaign leading your men to whatever their heart desires. Patapon 3 is bringing more weapons, a new hero class system which will allow you to customize your own hero even more than you could in Patapon 2. When it comes to multi-player, they have announced the ability to play 4-player co-op in every level and all new 4v4 game mode. So that should really open up the extra hours you can waste, chanting over and over again in your head, Pata-Pata-Pata-Pon.

Since we are writing about our own avatars it seems. One would assume I was crazy, or worse, had my fingers far from the pulse of the community if this went un-checked.

Patapon 2 was just recently announced for the Playstation Portable. Sadly there are little to be said about it. No release date. No information if it’s a continuum from the past.

The only thing we know for sure is that it will be multiplayer! Yes! Up to four players to be exact. Will there be epic drum solos for one player to take the team to victory?!

Picture borrowed from Scrawley