I joyfully smirk the whole way through, tapping my foot and bobbing my head to the cool ass beats. There’s genuine inspiration for me in its experimental nature and pitch perfect childhood silliness. Add to the mix that the songs are unironically good and you’ve won me over. Infinitely better than the first game by virtue of it actually being playable. Incremental positive changes add up, like seeing your input of the buttons on screen for better time judgement or having more time to react in general.
I wonder when the moment was that devs figured out that rhythm games work better vertically, rather than horizontally. One of the 2 major benefits is that you don’t go cross-eyed trying to follow both the prompts at the top and the image in the centre. The other is that you remove the awkwardness of having to carry on a musical sentence (if I can call it that) on the next line, completely breaking the flow of the rhythm. That might be the only ‘’flaw’’ I see with PaRapper 2 design wise. I could’ve also gone without the unnecessary and unskippable training sessions before each level but it’s not a big deal.


‘’BIG’’ and ‘’ALWAYS LOVE’’ are my jams.