Opening Statements
Parappa the Rapper is one of those games that is going
to be remembered no matter what. They are even going to
make a sequal to the awesome game. The music actually
sounds pretty good. I was afraid they were going to make
the music a bunch of junk that was a disgrace to rap music,
but it was actually good! The use of slang was
incorporated into the game also. These people knew what
they were doing.
Nightshadow's Comments
This game is one of a kind. The best part about it is
the music. You are sure to be humming or rapping at work
or around the house after playing this one for a while.
The beat even changes up when you are rapping BAD or
AWFUL. The rapping scale is easy to get a hang of. You
get used to what needs to be done to rap good or cool. The
game can put your skill to the test. The graphics are a
little wierd, but this was obviously done on purpose. They
had an artist come in and draw the characters to look
funny. They are 2D cut-outs in 3D enviornments. The
gameplay doesn't seem like someting you would like.
(Pushig buttons to make someone rap). Suprisingly though,
the gameplay is very addictive. The only problem with this
game, is that it is too short. There are six levels.
Sure, you can go back and rap cool, but you can find
yourself doing this in a good 5 hours if you are really
skilled. If this game was longer, it would definitely
gotton a higher score. Hopefully the sequal will recognize
this flaw, and make the game longer. However, there are 2
other secret characters that you can rap with! One of
which, is a Ninja. This game is worth the buy if you are
looking for something like never before, or if you are just
looking for fun.
Nightshadow's Rating: 8.5
Ash's Comments
This original rapping game, put simply, is fun to play. Some none gamers ask
why the graphics are 2-D cut outs, and the answer is simple; humor.
The only bad points about the game, one of which is actually quite
major, is the length of the game, and some aspects of the gameplay.
The graphics aren't a problem at all. In terms of length, this game only
takes about, on average for the beginner, an hour and half. This may
not be a problem for some; that's if you like playing the same, easy game
game over and over. I just couldn't force myself into playing it that
may times. Actually, I only played through the entire game twice, a few of
the single levels, and then I had had enough. They tried to increase replay value by adding
the ability to rap cool and get to special freestyle areas, but this still wasn't THAT hard.
Also, if you rap cool on all of the six stages, then you will get a special dance club thing...strange.
These attempts to make the game long just don't cut it though. This game is fun though, but like I
said, the fun only lasts a short time. If you want to rap cool in all the stages, your looking at about 4 hours to beat...max. In terms of gameplay, it's the most original
game, period. That's not a bad thing at all, escpecially in this case.
A rapping game sounds great to me. But, they didn't make it to be the best
possible. For starters, I didn't like the fact that how well you did depended on
how on beat you were and how many times you press the buttons. I wish they had incorporated
HOW you rap as part of your success. Instead, if the phrase that you are supposed
to say is "Kick, punch, turn, and chop the door...", then you could rack up the
points by saying something like: "Kick, kick, punch, punch, punch, turn, turn..." as long as
your incompleted sentance was on beat. Also this game wouldve been REALLY great if
there was a vs mode. Like if you took turns rapping for points...
I don't think I've even mentioned how the game plays yet.
Basically, you rap against some kind of opponent. You must repeat there words
by pressing certain buttons in a certain amount of given time. Like I said earlier,
the words can be in any order and don't have to make sense at all. Thank goodness this game
has what it is all about; sound. It has good music and clear lyrics to help you
along the way to the end of the game. Oh yeah, the cinematics are kinda cool as well.
I would surely recommend this game to any rapper, as it's the closest thing you'll ever
get to a rapping game; actually ou can't get much closer.
For a person just looking for a cool game, I'd rent it. You'd probably beat it by then
and you would have had enough of it...probably. All in all, this is a decent game.
Cloud's Comments
This game is just addictive and fun. PERIOD. You play the role of PaRappa
as he tries to win over the heart of his dream date Sunny Funny. When I first
saw this game, I thought it looked and sounded childish. But, after I played
this game, I saw that a child could not use rythym and get high scores. I also
learned that looking or sounding childish does not make the game bad. I loved
this game right when I played the first demo of it. The raps that the little
puppy puts out stayed in my head like a bad disease for Years. As I walked down
the halls of my school, people would give me stange looks as I walked down the
hallways singing, "Crack,crack,crack the egg into the bowl!". The only real
problem with it is that it is over too quickly. But, just because the game is
over doesn't mean that the fun has to stop there. Once you beat a level, you can
go back and revisit it. When you do this, if you rap with skill and rythym you
can rap "cool" if you do this, you can go into freestyle mode. In this, you can
use any word in that level in any sequence you choose to make up your own rap.
If you get off beat or just have a lame rap, you will get booted out of freestyle
mode and go back into the normal rap sequence. However, if you can stay in
freestyle mode for the remainder of the sequence, you will get a crown for that
level. If you do this in all five levels, you will get a secret "stage" where
you get to controll Sunny Funny and her freind's movements and change their
clothes as they dance in a club. It really isn't all that special, but what do
you expect, a whole new game? The control in this game is fairly simplistic, proving
that fun games can have very simple controlls. For each rap sequence, each button
is assigned to a word or part of a phrase. For the phrases, if you push the same
button repeatedly, you will follow through with the whole phrase. While you
are in a phrase, if you hold the right arrow down and tap the button, he will
only repeat that part of the phrase instead of follow through. Ash already really
covered the graphics and I totally agree with him. This is a good game if you
are looking for pure fun and not willing to sacrifice some challenge for it.
Cloud's Rating: 8.5
