Smiling to the beat
April 6, 2017 | 20:50 | Written by: snake911
One game that has eluded me and acted as a blank spot for my PS1 knowledge has been playing PaRappa the Rapper in its entirety. Now I tried to rectify this by trying to get it a few years back, but was surprised to see how much it goes for on eBay, so it was something I never went forward with adding to my collection. Instead, I got UmJammer Lammy, the not-so-true official sequel to PaRappa the Rapper last year for my birthday. Surprisingly you can still get a new copy of the game on Amazon for about $24.00. Who knew?!
Although, this doesn't mean I'm completely oblivious to PaRappa as I played the heck out of the demo back when a friend let me borrow his demo disc that came packed in with his PS1. But now here we are in the year of our Lord: two thousand and seventeen, during the 20th anniversary of the original game, Sony went and made a remastered version for the PS4 to redeem myself. And I gotta say, it's pretty cool.
Visually it's just beautiful. I normally keep games in their original aspect ratio, but I'm making an exception here as the simple yet vibrant color scheme and big character models make this something you can actually take advantage of your 16:9 widescreen HDTV. In fact, I believe they mentioned it was also scaled up to 4K. Nice.
As a bonus, there's even an interview with Masaya Matsuura, the creature of PaRappa the Rapper on PlayStation's official blog. I loved how he said, "I Wanted to Make a Game that Puts a Smile on Everyone's Face." Yup, mission accomplished as I'm grinning from ear to ear when I'm playing to the beat of this game. This release is getting me excited to play the upcoming Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy that groups the first three games in a remastered collection for the PS4.
Man, this year is shaping up to be a great one for PS1 classics.
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