this fixed some of the timing problems parappa had. It's still pretty finnicky, but not as frustrating on average than parappa. At first I thought this game was much worse than it is, idk if my disc is scratched or something but it had no cutscenes between each song. I was pretty disappointed because I just thought they didn't exist, but I looked it up later and realized I just missed out I guess? Or maybe they don't appear if you save between each song? idk :(
Anyways I didn't like how little you could hear the music if you were ever doing bad or awful, it really disincentivized you to actually play at that point because you couldn't even hear what you were supposed to recreate. Regardless, I was able to pass a couple songs because I did well at the end and could barely hear them when I actually played. After relistening to the songs, I only really liked the baby and idol one. maybe it's because my playthrough was messed up, but I feel like they could have done a lot more with this. I don't mean that in terms of number of songs, but I just feel like a lot more happened in parappa.

This game improves everything that the prior game had. There are now cooperative and versus modes, replays, alternate songs for Parappa, and other things. The button inputs at the top still don't match with the timing, but it's not as bad as before... I didn't find out until Parappa's music that there is an easy mode.
The textures for this game are more detailed (Think of typical PS1 and N64 games), which I thought didn't benefit Rodney Greenblat's simplistic art style the characters have.
It was very fun! I love the characters and world. You have to make a lot of mistakes before understanding the timing for each song, but the vibes makes it bearable and worth trying.

The songs aren't as memorable, the story not as funny and picking at guitar strings just isn't as satisfying as spittin' rhymes in a rhythm game like this, but all that said, Um Jammer Lammy is a worthy sequel and a damn good time in its own right. It probably didn't leave a mark on me as much as Parappa the Rapper, because that game came along first and there was nothing else like it at the time. Um Jammer didn't have that fresh flavour and novelty factor to fall back on when it came out, maybe hence why it didn't sell anywhere near as well as PtR.

But if you look at the online discourse around the two games nowadays, it seems that folks heavily favour the riffing lamb over the rapping pup, so what do I know.

This game desperately needs a remaster like what Parappa The Rapper 1 has because this game is great however the input lag is actually the worst (especially through emulation) that I can understand why people drop this game. It is by far my favourite game in the "Parappa The Rapper series" from the music to characters to even the batshit insane plot. Don't even get me started on Lammy I just love her character so much from how awkward she can come off at times to then hallucinating and begin to absolutely shredding it on (what she thinks is) a guitar and she goes to hell Like wtf did my girl Lammy do she is too pure to go to hell. I am praying that 1 day we will get that remaster.

lammy has the same issue as parappa where all inputs are delayed by about a quarter note or more depending on how close they are to other inputs. the game's a timing game, but not really a rhythm game. but Taste Of Teriyaki is so good that you learn the Cool timing anyway.

i don't know what problem NanaOn-Sha was running into that made reading inputs on beat so hard. this was the same year the ps1 got ports of Bust a Groove and DDR 3rd Mix, so konami and metro had this figured out already. they finally got it right with vib ribbon a few months after lammy launched. i wish she got the parappa 2 treatment.

Joguei sem esperanças que eu iria terminar, mas não é tão difícil como eu imaginava. Tirando que eu sentia um certo imput lag nas notas, o jogo é muito bom.
As músicas são muitos boas, ouviria algumas vezes aleatoriamente pelo dia a dia.
A história não é algo muito importante mas ela é bem legalzinha nada pra criticar sobre ela. É bem engraçado algumas situações que o jogo bota a Lammy pra resolver as coisas.
O jogo é bem curtinho, terminei em menos de 2 horas tendo que repetir várias vezes as mesmas músicas por noobagem minha.