History YMMV / Patapon

* FanNickname: The Dark Ones from ''2'' are frequently referred to by the fanbase and even on the [[WikiRule fan wiki]] as "Akumapons" as a portmanteau of the Japanese word for "dark" and "patapon," since they're never directly named in-game and there's already a character called the Dark One(who is actually just [[spoiler:Makoton]]). The actual suffix for the Dark Ones appears to be "-tan", as in "Kuwagat''tan''."

* GainaxEnding: An especially weird variant, considering it's mostly the same as the first game. In ''Patapon 2,'' everything is wrapping up the same as the first with a few changes; the BigBad is defeated, the final boss is revealed to be an uber-powerful demon, and you and your army kill it. Then the patapons find what they think to be Earthend and IT, but it turns out it isn't, AndTheAdventureContinues. The issue is that the first game has much more closure, with a reconciliation between Queen Kharma and Meden and a definitive implication that there's more to the Patapons' story with a {{Stinger}} showing the Patapons and Zigotons building a ship to cross the ocean together. ''2'' just kind of ends with the Patapon Princess telling the Hero that he will bring balance to the world in some nebulous, undefined way, then there's a DancePartyEnding and another {{Stinger}} showing the Patapons and Zigotons building a bridge to the next place, now assisted by the Karmens. This is further confusing by the fact that Ormen Karmen is ''dead'' and the Karmens were never given the same sympathetic backstory as the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Zigotons]], '''so the Karmens have literally no reason to be at all friendly to the Patapons.''' as a result, the whole ending just kind of...happens and doesn't really leave you with a SequelHook for ''Patapon 3''.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In an amusing bit of BilingualBonus, "patapon" in Filipino means "worthless" or "throwaway".
** Patapon is about an army of {{Cephalothorax}} creatures who fight with weapons like spears and shields. [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Falinks]], anyone?

* BetterOffSold: While still very useful if leveled up, common weapons and armor end up becoming more useful if sold once you get high leveled enough Unique Equipment.

** Goruru/Garuru in beast form have an incredibly annoying habit of shuffling back and forth almost randomly. Good luck chathe same as the first game. In 'Parging up a ''PON PON CHAKA CHAKA'' attack!

* FoeYay:
** Technically, in ''Patapon'' games, you count as a character yourself, being the Patapons' mighty war god. So anyone you fancy on the opposing side is subject of FoeYay.
** Present in ''Patapon 3''. Naughtyfins falls in love with your Hero, and at times she'll defend him or help him out without either him or the other Dark Heroes looking, even if still technically enemies. She often flirts with him during cutscenes. [[spoiler:Although, she's really the princess you rescued in Patapon 2, so she's not necessarily a foe. Later in the game, you can turn her back to normal by hugging her. [[{{Pun}} Talk about]] DefrostingTheIceQueen.]]

** Dettankarmen and [[spoiler: Zuttankarmen]] from ''2'' suddenly have attacks that are relatively ''lightning-fast'' compared to the other bosses and conform to the beat even less. They're also one of the only two bosses in the series to immediately follow up an attack with another attack, which can catch you completely off guard the first time and still stumble you after you've downloaded their moveset.

** Goruru/Garuru in beast form have an incredibly annoying habit of shuffling back and forth almost randomly. Good luck charging up a ''PON PON CHAKA CHAKA'' attack!

* FanNickname: The Dark Ones from ''2'' are frequently referred to one the fanbase and even on the [[WikiRule fan wiki]] as "Akumapons" as a portmanteau of the Japanese word for "dark" and "patapon," since they're never directly named in-game and there's already a character called the Dark One(who is actually just [[spoiler:Makoton]]). The actual suffix for the Dark Ones appears to be "-tan", as in "Kuwagat''tan''."

* {{Narm}}: The Patapons in your command will usually say pretty warlike and threatening stuff during battle, but they will occasionally say [[BigStupidDooDooHead ''"Spank them bottoms!"'']] with the same exact amount of seriousness.

** The only way to make the Divine and Demon weapons and armor is to play the Ton Kampon minigame flawlessly. You know, the one that's practically designed to get you to foul up at least once out of panic by rapidly increasing the spee and having a very small window for you to correctly input a hit? Yeah.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: You're the god of a tribe of eyeball people, which you must command into battle against other tribes of eyeball people by drumming four sacred, colored drums, so they can reach their ultimate objective; IT, which is located at the end of the Earth and no one knows what it is, but is said to grant eternal happiness. Along the way, you deal with masks with great powers that wipe out memories when worn; giant multicolored Easter eggs with several SealedGoodInACan inside, including a princess and the core of the world; massive {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with a second head on their stomach; star-shaped people that drop money from their body, demons, and even overweight djinns. Yep, not made on drugs indeed.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: General Kuwagattan and the Dark Ones in general. They're the souls of the undead given corporeal form(and might even be [[CameBackStrong all the Zigotons you killed in the first game]]given what we know about [[spoiler:Kuwagattan]]), are essentially the Patapon universe's armies of hell and ''they only show up for like five levels?'' They're also given next to no explanation within Patapon 2's story itself, beyond a generic 'They're servants of Black Hoshipon from the underworld and they're evil!' They could have been a QuirkyMinibossSquad or even a DiscOneFinalBoss, for Jebus' sake!

* AntiClimaxBoss: General Kuwagattan is built up throughout several of the Dark One levels of 2 as a threat rivaling General Beetleton from the first game(especially weird because [[spoiler: he literally IS the resurrected General Beetleton]]) or even Gong the Hawkeye, but he one shows up in one level as a glorified Dekamen with a telegraphed attack that has to be bailed out by Black Hoshipon and a giant mushroom.

* ThatOneLevel:

** [[GiantEnemyCrab Cioking]], the upgraded form of Ciokina, is the only boss with access to a guaranteed 1-hit kill attack that targets multiple units. Good luck dodging it, because he also has access to bubbles that will put your army to sleep! [[FinalDeath Kami help you if you lose your hero to this attack.]] It gets [[TotalPartyWipe worse]] in Patapon 3, where you only have four units...

* ThatOneLevel: Each of the games have at least one [[EscortMission escort mission]], [[ShiftingSandLand desert level]] that require summoning rain to cross, and rescue missions that ''avert'' [[FriendlyFireproof Friendly Fireproof]].
** The Evilmass of Adamance in Patapon 3. It doesn't help that a certain guillotine gives players a GuideDangIt moment or even glitch out on you unexpectedly.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Mild violence, censored bad words (Rarely in Patapon, at least), pole dancing, and creepy monsters. Yup, E-rated.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gong is very much well-liked, so much so that [[spoiler:he gets revived in Patapon 2 and plays an important role in Patapon 3 as well.]]

** Technically, in Patapon games, you count as a character yourself, being the Patapons' mighty war god. So anyone you fancy on the opposing side is subject of FoeYay.
** Present in Patapon 3. Naughtyfins falls in love with your Hero, and at times she'll defend him or help him out without either him or the other Dark Heroes looking, even if still technically enemies. She often flirts with him during cutscenes. [[spoiler:Although, she's really the princess you rescued in Patapon 2, so she's not necessarily a foe. Later in the game, you can turn her back to normal by hugging her. [[{{Pun}} Talk about]] DefrostingTheIceQueen.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: In an amusing bit of BilingualBonus, "patapon" in Filipino means "worthless" or "throwaway".

* TheScrappy: A lot of people don't like Meden. [[DamselInDistress Probably because she gets kidnapped twice,]] [[ThatOneLevel AND in the desert part of each game.]]

* EarWorm: You'll hear it constantly even if you stop playing the game and the chants will follow you everywhere you decide to Pata Pata Pata Pon. In fact, it is very likely that it will even outworm anything heard in ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdTI5Sum_d4 Now in song form as the title theme of Patapon 2.]]

* ContestedSequel: The opinion of critics vary greatly on how ''Patapon 3'' fared compared to ''Patapon 2''.