tbh girls i think a few of u should change your profile pics to anything but her. feel like that stupid tiktok audio that’s like we can’t allllll be donatello. it’s like true lol like which character has more profile pics on here lammy or asuka

don’t understand rhythm games and honestly never fucking will, my coordination is like actually so bad lol. so played this w cheats on and still couldn’t beat a single level but I did see them all and watched all the very cute cuntscenes. skill issue or w/e
big mtv animation/early adult swim vibes going on here. cool mixture of a bunch of diff aesthetics and styles and everything feels so bouncy and alive. lammy’s reflection on that guys teeth is rly fucking cool. reminds me of like mission hill or downtown or like home movies/metalocalypse, great stuff. prob the best loading screens in any game.

sara ramirez is genuinely such a funny person, rlly like her in and just like that even though that’s like not a great show where it would be so easy to phone it in I think their work there kind of elevates the rest of the show. doing like lazy pothead bimbo-cent here and it fucking rules honestly
parappa looks like dominic fike, should reboot it w him lmao

Yeah, this game fucking slapped. Not sure what compelled Greenblat and NanaOn-Sha to make their first PaRappa spin-off about a lesbian failgirl rock band, but I'm def all for it. So many neat little upgrades to how the game is played and how the game conveys success and failure. It's still not quite where I'd want it to be, the strict pass or fail depending on if you're in the "Good" range or not when the song ends worked better for the much shorter tracks of PaRappa 1, but I was still able to complete the game in a couple hours so I guess that's basically a non-complaint!

The borderline nonsensical and frantic storytelling has been turned up even further, and it feels like the plot was more consciously constructed around the arcade-y rhythm game format thanks to how delectably chaotic both the stages themselves and the cutscenes between can be. I think I enjoyed the tracks on offer a bit more than PaRappa's as well. The sound editing was already impressive in the first game, but they really took it a step further with how dynamic Lammy feels by comparison. Definitely can see myself coming back to play this again, though next time I'll probably play the Japanese version since I heard that stage 6 was censored in the NA version for some lame ass reason.

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.

The moment it turned midnight, as we entered 2024, I for some reason felt an inexplicable urge to play Um Jammer Lammy for the first time. I think I saw a clip on twitter of Lammy going to hell and thought that was really cool. I really can't remember, I wasn't the most sober at the time. Either way, I browsed eBay, cried and then begrudgingly loaded up an emulator in that order and well...man.

It's rare for me to just love everything about a game on sight but Um Jammer Lammy just feels so confident in how strange and joyful it is. For a start, the music in the game jams hard (Stage 2 & 6 being my favs), the art and character design is bursting with personality and originality in its totality, the story has a lot of fun with itself in an incredibly nightmareish way AND the best part is that it gets it all done within a couple of hours. In & Out. One & Done. Also Lammy is cool. I can see why everybody wants to be Lammy.

The only thing that's really stopping me from calling it perfect is that it is SO damn hard! Like, granted, playing it on an emulator probably doesn't help with some of the timings but I was never fully able to grasp what timing the game was asking of me. Sometimes hitting the buttons a bit early would work, sometimes it wouldn't. After trying stuff out and looking on the internet I'm convinced this game just has really strict inputs that a mixture of emulation and lack of skill gave me a difficult time with a bunch of tracks, some of them being brick walls. Or maybe the input timings are just weird. IDK, all it does is make me wish I had a copy I could run on original hardware so I could do the game justice. Maybe someday.

Until then though, I'm happy to leave my thoughts as is. Um Jammer Lammy is a short, special game that I'm sure is gonna stick on my mind for the next 363 days of the year. Bonne année, jammys!

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.