Como dizia o filósofo Piton "tudo na vida depende do quanto você quer comer alguém. Você treina em um dojo pra comer alguém, você aprende a dirigir pra comer alguém, você negocia com um maconheiro pra comer alguém, você faz bolo, canta rap, faz a desgraça toda pra comer alguém. Você vai num show com a intenção de sair de lá pra comer alguém, tudo na vida tem a intenção de comer alguém."

Sem brincadeira agora, o visual de parrapa é incrível, usando de um mundo estranho, onde flores são pessoas e tudo é colorido, dando aquele charme enorme para o jogo. Igualmente com as músicas, sendo bastante cativantes.

A história é muito engraçada e identificável, às vezes fazemos de tudo pra impressionar uma pessoa amada, e nisso acontece algumas situações constrangedoras...

O lado ruim dele fica na jogabilidade, sendo atrasada nos botões que são pedidos para apertar, com seu único amigo para te ajudar aqui, o ritmo. Se ele fosse menos atrasado nos comandos, poderia ser uma experiência bem melhor do que já é, dando mais oportunidade para as pessoas se divertirem, mas mesmo assim gostei do que vi.

São apenas 6 fases curtas e ele inteiro dura menos de uma hora, vale a pena jogar em uma tarde chata.

The songs are genuinely good here, especially the frog reggaeton/Shaggy rapper’s song, so much so that I’m not going to mention Daffy slamming his penith in the car door or Batman watching his parents die even once in this whole review. Also this cartoon dog rapper and his talking flower girlfriend is probably the most I’ve ever cared in my life about a straight dude trying to get out of the friendzone

Probably not ever going to play it for real though, the YouTube video I watched was an hour and change long and it included all the times the guy lost. He even said in the comments shit like “😭 I’m on an emulator and the lag is impossible 😭😭😭 if you don’t like it I’d like to see you try it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.”

I just like Parappa in earnest. I find it cool that the definitive earliest rhythm game also has a loose sense of rhythm, like there's something interesting about a rhythm game that can be tackled in a non-rigid path. But putting aside it's relation to other games (since most rhythm games take after the also great and straightforward Beatmania), I just really like Parappa in earnest. And I like it's earnesty, the characters, the music (it's all good!), the cartoon-like setting and atmosphere... it's great.

PaRappa the Rapper probably has one of the most unique aesthetics I've seen in a PS1 game, having 2D characters in a 3D World, drawn with flat colors, and having a world where creatures such as dogs, cats, plants and other types of living beings inhabit.
It's very quirky in that way, and I found it very charming!

The voice acting is also not bad for the time. It's not great, but just like the graphics themselves, it also has its charm. It feels like the actors had fun doing their characters.

The songs that you'll hear throughout the game are really good, even if one of them is about taking a shit. I think I would listen to some of them on my own, because they were quite a few bangers here.

The big thing about this game though, is its gameplay. The game has 6 levels and they're all done in the style of a sort of "rap battle", if you will.
You hear what the characters are rapping and then you follow their buttons in time with the rhythm.
And I'll pause right there. "In Time with the Rhythm" is, I think, what the devs wanted you to do, but the timings are kinda wack.
Sometimes I do decently, but other times, I do pretty bad, and later on in the game, it gets pretty rough. It becomes very strict on the timings, and even then, I'm unsure exactly what the timing is.
Is it the button press on screen? Is it timing PaRappa's rap just right so that it follows the other character's rap?
It's hard to decipher, and for a rhythm game like this, it shouldn't be.

But in spite of the weird button timings, I did enjoy my time with PaRappa the Rapper. It's short, but mostly sweet game, and I hope the sequels are better.

PaRappa the Rapper’s infectious charm is unfortunately shoved to the side for non-functional, confusing gameplay.

I was really feeling this game up until the license battle, because I hadn’t experienced any functionality problems up to that point. Once I started noticing buttons weren’t responding and timing of the rhythm was all out of order, I realized it was a gameplay issue. I wanted to make sure at least, because sometimes I am pretty stupid. But, the internet has collectively agreed that this game doesn’t work, and the internet is always right.

In the final chapter, it’s worse than ever. You’ll hit triangle 5 times in a row in the exact same rhythm that was done before you, but the game reads it as if you hit it twice. Towards the end, you have to hit circle about 2 beats faster than it tells you to, and L twice without it showing up on the screen. It’s like this for the majority of the final half of the game. Or, you’ll mess up so comically bad you can’t even imagine how it would give you 6 points, but it just does. Also, how does the point system work? +6, +5, -1, -0, -however many you have if you mess up at bad? It’s so utterly pointless I don’t know why it’s even there. Just stick to the “U Rappin’” on the right side, it works just fine.

Where PaRappa really shines, though, is its unserious nature in its storytelling, meant to be goofy. The beauty of children’s media is that sometimes, the people making that media know adults watch, so the humor can land for any age. At one point PaRappa has to take a shit and it suddenly becomes the most attracted Sunny (his confusing relationship) has ever been to him, okay then. Then you get in a fucking rap battle with 4 people just to take a shit. Did they shit themselves?

Or, when PaRappa’s dad says he has 59 monthly installments left on his car that PaRappa took without permission and totaled. Why 59? Why not? Sometimes being random without being too extra can be so dumb it’s at least humorous.

It’s just extremely disappointing that half of a 30 minute game straight up doesn’t work, because when I wasn’t getting irritated by broken gameplay, I was having a lot of fun. 3/10.