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DEVELOPER
Masaya Matsuura
PUBLISHER
SCEA
AVAILABLE
Now
MEDIUM
CD Rom
PLAYERS
One
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 arappa
The Rapper -- a game where you mimic obnoxiously cute characters, trying
to rap along with their singing and dancing. When they sing, their rhythm
and words are translated to certain button combinations, displayed on the
top of the screen for you to pound out on the control pad. A chicken bakes
a cake in the kitchen, and you follow along. A karate teacher -- with an
onion for a head -- teaches you proper fighting techniques, and you follow
along.
And that is it. There is nothing more to say about the gameplay, for
it doesn't get any simpler than this. This is where the mystery of the
game lies: Just why is it so good? I simply cannot answer that.
Maybe it's because nothing like Parappa has ever been done before. Maybe
it's because the cinemas that push the game forward are so amiable and
bizarrely infectious with their dubiously likeable characters and ridiculous
story that you simply can't escape the essence of the game.
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If Parappa learns to drive he can take his friends
out for a phat time.
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Towards the end of the game, the fifth of the six level presents a situation
where Parappa has to break early from his date with his sunflower plant
girlfriend because of an intense need to use the bathroom. So here we are,
asked to rap along with the other characters whom we have met earlier in
the game, in order to make way through the line to the stall. "Did
you check the toilet on the right?" asks the moose you have previously
had as a driving instructor. "Ribbit Ribbit I can't hold it,"
says the Rasta Frog in front of you.
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Learn proper fighting techniques at the Chop Chop
Dojo.
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And this, in it's condensed form, is the very special Parappa the Rapper.
You are either going to love this game or hate it. I loved it, and any
game that makes me sing and dance to goofy myself long after I've put down
the controller is a winner in my book.
-- Brady Fiechter
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