Set among a variety of colorful 2D backgrounds, Patapon unfolds through more than 30 missions with more than 20 different environments, where players are tasked with outfitting the Patapon army, collecting resources, and using strategy to grow the tribe into a devastating fighting force. Incorporating various button-timed drumbeats in real-time to control the Patapons, players.

Patapon is a hybrid of a rhythm game such as PaRappa the Rapper and a strategy game with unit management such as Advance Wars. Players control 'Almighty', the Patapons' god, as they guide them in search of Earthend. This is done with the Circle, X, Square and Triangle buttons - each button corresponds with a different type of drum beat.

By pressing different sets of four beats, the Patapons will repeat the beat, and then perform the action, such as advancing, retreating or attacking. If the player continues to perform beats without messing up, they enter 'Fever' Mode, which makes the Patapons perform their actions stronger and faster.

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• 2Music
• 3Music Samples
• 4Sound
• 5Unused Textures
• 6Regional Differences

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Music

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Meant to play when you enter the Barracks/Headquarters from the World Map. (Kanji is '部隊編成', means 'Unit organization')

Music Samples

Some of Patapon's songs use a midi-like format. Some sound banks contain unused samples.

Gyorochi's Theme

Not much to say about this one, unused chanting.

Somewhat creepy laughter.

Bikkurakotta's Theme

Unknown what this is even here for.

Singing that sounds similar to the flute that plays near the end of the song.

All Themes

Found grouped with all themes.

Sound

Meden

This is meant to be said during the rescue mission. It is unknown why it does not play.

Patapons

Said in Patapolis by Ramuja The Woodcutter.

Said in Patapolis by Geito and Capeta.

This was meant to play instead of the default revive sound whenever a minigame was revived.

Supposedly, classes were supposed to call out their name when picked for a mission at one point in development. The first says 'Patapon!' and the second says 'Yaripon!'.

In-mission reaction. Could have been for when you picked up a certain item.

In-mission reactions. No idea what this could have been used for.

In-mission reaction. Could be a response to being hurt by wind.

In-mission reaction. Could have been used at one point, when units died.

In-mission reactions. Possibly meant for charge attacks.

Zigotons

All of these are unknown in what they could have been used for.

Unused Textures

Retry

In the textures for the 'Mission Completed' and 'Mission Failed' messages are the textures to a retry option that most likely would have allowed you to retry the level without having to go back to Patapolis. The game doesn't actually let you do that, you must instead use the obelisk again.

Patapon House

In loadinggroupbasesdatacamppartsmodelcln020 there is a spritesheet and model for a house. This is left over from an earlier version of Patapolis, which used to be a village.

Mine

In loadinggroupbasesdatacamppartsmodelcln325 a spritesheet and model for a mining minigame can be found. The mining minigame has been removed from the game's executable, and cannot be played.

Meden's Old Staff and Hat Plume

In loadinggroupbasesdatacamppartstex you can see Meden's old staff and the plume of a hat from when the game was still in development.

Patapon Citizens

While this spritesheet was used, almost half of it is never used. You can see Ramuja The Woodcutter, Geito, Capeta, The miner, and.. some patapon with a mustache?

Regional Differences

Game Icon

Background

In the Japanese release, the text has a small fade around it, and the copyright is slightly smaller and the date is 2007.In the international release, the text has a solid white outline, and the copyright is bigger and date is 2008.

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Title Screen

Tutorial

This is exclusive to the Japanese version. It's a tutorial that always plays when the game starts up, before the title screen.