Patapon 2: Don Chaka is the sequel to the original Patapon. Patapon 2 adds a significant amount of new content, including new weapons, bosses and Patapon units. There is a multiplayer ad-hoc mode where players work together to crack an egg with prizes like masks, Komupons and materials inside.
Background[]
After the events of the first game, the Patapons are ready to cross the ocean in search for Earthend. Unfortunately, an unknown creature crashes their ship and the Patapons lose many of their number. After regrouping, the Patapons come across a new tribe called the Karmen who try to stop the Patapons on their way to Earthend. The Patapon also meet the Hero Patapon, a mysterious Patapon that has great strength thanks to the Masks he wears. This game focuses on the Patapons returning to their homeland, saving the princess, stopping the Sasoritans and the Karmen, and their leader, Ormen Karmen.
Story[]
A giant beast attacks the Patapon ship
The Patapon set off out in the ocean with a ship that the Zigotons helped them build. While doing so, Hatapon recounts an old story and all of the Patapons' troubles to get to where they are now. Hatapon prays to their Almighty to keep them safe on their journey to Earthend, but 49 days and nights after departure, the ship encounters a colossal kraken-like monster. The Patapon ship's defenses were useless to defeat it, and afterwards, the monster broke the bottom of the ship. Consequently, the Patapons' ship sank to the bottom of the ocean, their long journey to Earthend ended.
Later, Hatapon is found unconscious on the shore next to the ruins of the boat. The Almighty (the player) receives the Pon drum for swearing their Oath, and by repeatedly making it sound, Hatapon revives, giving the Almighty another sacred drum (the Pata drum) he managed to hold onto, and teaches Almighty the PataPata song. After three Yaripons join Hatapon (one revived like Hatapon, two others having heard the drum beat), they soon find Priestess Meden, unconscious, surrounded by the Karmen. The Karmen run away from the Patapons when approached, and the Patapons then find a settlement nearly identical to Patapolis, giving it the sma ename. The Patapons regroup and once more vow to journey to the Earthend and gaze upon "IT".
Before going to Nanjaro Hill, Meden will say that she senses something important is going to happen. At Nanjaro Hill, they meet a strange Patapon, trapped under two rocks and wearing a mask, called the Hero (who can be renamed). After saving the Hero, the group is unsure about his mysterious past, which he is unable to recall apparently due to his mask.
Much later, as the new Dark One appears, along with Black Hoshipon and Kuwagattan, the Patapons do battle with them until they reach the Karmen Generals, along with Ormen Karmen, the Karmen leader. The battles against the Karmen army rage until only Ormen Karmen is left. In the battle inside Pata-Pole, the ancient Patapon capital city, the Hero's mask begins to show, successively, flashbacks of how Pata-Pole was taken over, the Patapon Princess being held hostage, the World Egg shattered by the Hero after being tricked by Ormen Karmen and Hero putting on the mask to forget it all.
After Ormen Karmen and the underworld demon Dettankarmen are defeated, Hatapon and three Yaripons march on, finally finding a giant egg. Thinking that the egg is IT, they break it, thus rescuing the Patapon Princess from her prison. She expresses her gratitude and, after that, gives a speech to the Hero and points out his new mission, none of which he hears as he was asleep. In the end, the Patapons and Zigotons, along with their new allies, the Karmen, build together a bridge to Earthend.
New Features[]
Patapon 2 Gameplay
- New special units: Toripon, Robopon, Mahopon and Hero
- Training levels
- New bosses
- Ad-hoc multiplayer game
- The Patagate/Paraget, where the player can fight bosses and obtain items and masks for the Hero
- Multiplayer games accesible through the Patagate
- Komupons, AI-controlled Patapons that help Hero in the Hero World
- Two new enemy tribes: Karmen and Sasoritans
- New and improved weapons and graphics
- New command songs
- Two new mini-games
- Many new Rarepons
Patagate minigame
Patapon 2 retains most of the gameplay aspects of the first game while establishing some new ones.
An all-new Hero unit is introduced. The Hero unit can change his class to any the player has unlocked, with each granting him unique special abilities. These special abilities are activated in Hero Mode, reached when all 4 beats in a measure are timed perfectly (three measures in hard mode, though only two if done consecutively), which can ultimately change the tide of battle. If the Hero unit is defeated in battle, he will revive after a short countdown.
Three new unit classes are also introduced: Toripon, Robopon and Mahopon; squadrons fill up at 3 units. Another change is the new level system where the player level ups a unit using materials acquired from missions, thus increasing its stats. This goes along with defeated units' caps being picked up automatically, regardless of location.
Entrance to Patagate multiplayer
Multiplayer capabilities were also added. Up to four players may send their Hero on a Patagate mission where they take a Mysterious Egg (dropped by single-player bosses) through the egg's respective boss battle to an altar to hatch it through the Donchaka minigame. The player that brought the egg gets rewards such as new equipment, Komupons, Ka-ching or Masks to equip the Hero, depending on the players' performance in the Donchaka.
Two new minigames are also added, which are accessible in Patapolis.
Units[]
- Main article: Patapon Units
Patapon 2 EU logo
Patapon 2 US logo
Trivia[]
- The Japanese version's name is slightly extended to "Patapon 2: Don Chaka".
- As in the first game (and in contrast to Patapon 3), the background music in Patapon 2 themes is not particularly tense, except the music played during Duel At Bababaan Gate, the music played during Evil At the World's Core and the last level.
- The original Japanese version had the same Fever Worm from the 1st game, but its graphic was changed internationally.
- The American version - which was released much later than the European version - received the most changes out of all. The Japanese/European game cover and the game's main menu had a green color, while the American version's is purple. There are also additional text differences.
- In June 2010, Patapon 2's [Essentials] edition was released.
- This is the only game that features Toripons, presumably because Toripons in Patapon 3 would be significantly unbalanced. (Instances include Toripons possibly opening gates without needing the Jump command, the inability of some enemies to hit Toripons and Toripons' own inability pick up items.) Toripons were planned to be in Patapon 1 as suggested by some concept material.
- Patapon 2 was taken down from PlayStation Network as it allowed PlayStation Vita users to exploit the PSP emulator on the system.
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