Parappa the Rapper is without a doubt one of the most interesting and unique games in the entire PS1 library, let alone its entire era. Its colorful and rather bizarre art style of 2D characters in 3D environments (kind of like Paper Mario does), fun rhythm-based gameplay, humorous story and a selection of catchy songs with a hip hop style all come together to deliver a solid and entertaining experience.

There are some downsides, though: The game is quite short on nature, with it only taking 1½ hour to complete. If you wanna go for the a 100% mark with all the "COOL!" ratings, that'll take you a little more, around 2 hours in total, but even so it's still a lackluster lenght. Another thing I'd like to mention is that the button timings are not exactly as merciful as you'd expect: Make an input a tad too early/late and you'll already be in danger of descending to lesser ratings, so you gotta make sure to get every single input on-point, especially if you wanna get the "COOL!" rating and maintain it, which is not exactly comfortable, especially with the BPM of some tracks.

Still, it's still a completely fine, innocent game one can really get attached to because of the charming characters and world it introduces, if not 'cause of the unique (although not always functional) mechanics and addictive OST.