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[[File:patapon.jpg|frame|''"[[Ear Worm|Pata Pata Pata Pon!]]"'']]

 

 

 

The main gameplay of Patapon has you issuing orders to your army of 'Pons via four drums, each corresponding to a button in your joypad. There are plenty of commands, each with preset drum sequences, that you have to input in time with the rhythm to successfully issue an order (Advance, Attack, Defend, Run Away, among others). When you successfully enter your orders in in time with the rhythm, your army can then enter into a "Fever mode", greatly increasing their effectiveness in battle.

There are also other rhythm minigames back in your Patapon village that you can play to either acquire materials or currency (Kaching), used to upgrade your army.

 

 

''Patapon 3'' has also been released, featuring RPG-like characteristics, online multiplayer (up to 4 players in co-op,to 8 in VS) and a [[Darker and Edgier]] storyline.

 

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* [[A God Is You]] - But of course.

** The four drums

** Minigames have an animate furnace, baby mountain and a cooking pot.

** ''Patapon 2'' has one training mission where cannons will speak to you.

* [[Annoying Laugh]] - "Keh heh heh heh!" That's kinda annoying sometimes.

* [[Annoying Arrows]] - Yumipons arrows don't do a lot of damage on their own; they're made for for spreading status effects around the battlefield. It works in reverse, too; it's not uncommon for just two or three enemy Yumitons/mens/deths with fire or sleep bows to rain a nightmare on the squad from on top of a building until it's toppled. They are also still useful against bosses since the bosses pretty much take up half the battlefield, so almost all the arrows will hit them.

* [[Anyone You Know]] - "Aid us, Oh Mighty Troper!"

* [[A Taste of Power]] - When the player gets another unit type in Patapon 1 and 2, the first unit they get of that type is incredibly overpowered. It leaves when the stage is finished.

* [[Back From the Brink]] - In all three games.

* [[Bigger Is Better]]: Stronger weapons in ''Patapon 3'' are at least twice as big as the characters who wield them.

** [[BFS]]

** Whenever the Uberhero holds a weapon in Patapon 3, it's at least twice as big compared to when a regular Patapon holds it. It gets even bigger when they enter Hero Mode.

* [[Big Good]] - You, the player assume the role.

* [[The Blacksmith]]: Ton Kampon. Oddly, while being a Dekapon means he fits the standard "large and muscular" depiction, he doesn't do anything except work the (admittedly large) hammer; the anvil itself takes care of everything else.

* [[Blow You Away]] - Gong and his tornado powers, as well as Ravenous in Patapon 3.

** Used to justify why it drops from fallen enemies.

** Call a dragon a Dodonga. ''Patapon 3'' justifies calling them dodongas as less cartoonish real dragons are present in that game.

* [[Catching Some Zs]] - Patapons under sleep effect.

* [[Cats Are Mean]] - The Myamsar class in Patapon 3 specializes in high critical ratio along with nasty status effects such as poison. Leveling up their class skills makes them poison their attacker, have a 8x damage bonus against shield-based classes (which they are made to counter), and upon death, explode, sending poison everywhere. Their Set skills include things such as ''Cornered Rat'' which quadruples their attack when HP drops below 25% and ''Peerless Cat'' (in contraposition to other classes's ''Fearless <animal>'' abilities), which inflicts instant death when critting a poisoned enemy. And their Hero Mode, Sic'Em Shadow, makes them pounce on the closest enemy while releasing an angry meow, pin the foe to the ground rendering him/her/it vulnerable (and cutting their own hero mode), and start stabbing them. Repeatedly. ''And they don't. Let. Go.'' Playing this in VS is bound to get you called a dick.

* [[Cartoon Conductor]]: Shuraba Yapon, who doesn't even ''have'' an orchestra.

* [[Charged Attack]] - the Pon Pon Chaka Chaka Song activates this. Also, some bosses telegraph their attacks this way.

* [[The Chosen One]] - Patapon Hero.

* [[Clingy MacGuffin]] - The hero's mask may or may not be this.

** Continues with Karmen using orange, Bonedeth using toxic green...And Akumapon using sickly purple along a gratuitous amount of [[Extra Eyes]].

** Also used in ''Patapon 3'' 's multiplayer Versus games. One team is Blue, the other is Red.

* [[The Comically Serious]] - Ragewolf in ''Patapon 3''.

** An enemy in Patapon 3 holds a chest and will fly away if you don't kill him fast enough to get it, he'll laugh and taunt you while trying to get said chest. (He'll even show you what's inside it just to piss you off even more when he flies off with it)

* [[Cool Gate]] - Baban and it's upgraded form Bababan,as well as the Paraget/Patagate (''Patapon 2''), the Herogate and the Battlegate (''Patapon 3'')

* [[Cowardly Boss]] - most bosses back off after they've incurred significant damage.

** Inverted in Patapon 3, bosses will go berserk and attack without warning once they've lost enough health.

** It is implied the other tribes are suffering/suffered as well. Sonarchy heavily implies once {{spoiler|that the Karmen have gone extinct due to this, and does this ''while taking shelter in the very same bunker-like building you first saw Ormen Karmen perched/napping upon during Patapon 2'' no less.}}

** Minorly, also present during Patapon 1, but that has more to do with the fact Patapon are absolutely helpless at surviving on their own.

* [[Credits Medley]]: Each game's credits has a medley of songs introduced in the game playing in the background.

* [[Critical Hit]]

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] - Patapon 3 specializes in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xO3Q3ITC8A& EPIC SOUNDTRACK].

* [[Cruelty Is the Only Option]] - Trust me, to advance to the end of the level, you're gonna have to kill everything in your path. And I mean ''everything.''

** The plot itself is [[Darker and Edgier]], including the deaths of several important characters, and the fact the world is in it's current [[Crapsack World]] status due to the Patapons's obsession with IT leading them to rediscover what should better have been left forgotten.

*** Ironically this brings it back to Patapon 1's level after Patapon 2's [[Lighter and Softer]] storyline. The humorous dialogue part still remains,though.

** What each and every one of the Dark Heroes did to achieve that status. However, it's more like trickery on their respective Archfiend's part than actual deals, though.

* [[Death Is Cheap]] - Patapon warriors (as long as they don't get eaten) and especially Patapon Hero.

* [[Dramatic Wind]] - The cape from the Patapon 3 heroes always flows behind them. Even if they turn around.[[Fridge Logic|Even if there should be no wind at all.]]

* [[Drop the Hammer]] - A preferred weapon type for Dekapons.

** The Destrobo and Bowmunk, along with their predecessor Robopon, could arguably count as this... that is, if you count using massive prosthethic metal hands to smash everything in your path dual wielding.

* [[Easy Communication]] - Not giving out any commands or failing to complete an order sequence makes the Patapons stay still as sitting ducks, [[Too Dumb to Live|not making any effort to save themselves]]. No wonder the Zigotons were owning them at the start of the original Patapon.

* [[Easy Logistics]] - For some reason, Toripons, Yumipons and Yaripons have infinite ammo. No Patapon of your army ever seems to get tired in the battlefield,even if you never see them eat, and in fact you never see them leave the obelisk.

* [[Eccentric Mentor]] - Silver Hoshipon.

** [[Spin to Deflect Stuff]]: The Uberhero Wooyari's Hero mode has him spin his weapon very quickly to make a ring of fire or ice, which can deflect arrows.

* [[Evil Counterpart]] - ''Patapon 2'' 's Dark One is an [[Evil Knockoff]] of your own hero, down to changing classes when needed.

** ''Patapon 3'' turns this [[Up to Eleven]] with a whooping total of '''7''' Dark Heroes, all evil counterparts to your own Uberhero (as well as each opposing one of the already stablished Uberhero classes).

** Black Hoshipon is an [[Evil Twin]] of the normal Hoshipon introduced in the first game. An usual gag is Hoshipon "confusing her/him with an imposter" whenever they meet.

* [[Extra Eyes]] - Gate Ghoul Baban in ''Patapon 1'' has several eyes. Its upgraded form Bababan from ''Patapon 2'' has dozens of small eyes and a few large ones.

* [[The Faceless]] - You never see the face of your enemies in the Karmen tribe, the Bonedeth, Dark Heroes, or even your own Hero unit.

** The Rarepons from the two previous games were the rarity-based variant, purposefully done.

* [[Fan Nickname]] - Patapons = Pons, Zigotons = Ziggies.

* [[Fission Mailed]] - In the first and second game. Unless you managed to get [[Sequence Breaking]].

** [[The Brute]] - Beetleton

** [[The Dark Chick]] - Kharma

*** [[The Evil Genius]] - Sonarchy

*** [[The Brute]] - Ravenous

*** [[Sixth Ranger]] - Slogturtle

*** [[The Dragon]] - Ragewolf

** [[The Hero]] - [[Department of Redundancy Department|Your Hero.]]

** [[The Lancer]] - Hatapon.

** 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. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Talk about]] [[Defrosting the Ice Queen]]}}

* [[Fog of Doom]] - Presented both as normal fog and as dust storm, it prevents you from seeing any enemies coming at you until they're right at your feet. Can be dissipated through rain, though you can also counter it by being [[Genre Savvy]] enough to check the expression of your long-range units...however, this still won't allow you too see exactly ''what'' is coming to get you, so [[Oh Crap]] moments may ensue.

* [[Forging Scene]]: Ton Kampon and Fwoosh Famooze's minigame.

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] - Makoton a normal soldier,once you killed his best friend.He turns into a general then he turned into the {{spoiler|demonic evil and hard Dark One.}}

* [[Fungus Humongous]] - Sentient demonic mushroom Matango.

* [[Game Lobby]] - ''Patapon 3'' 's multiplayer/VS matches.

* [[Genre Savvy]] - Meden is normally a bit of an airhead, but she has this surprisingly accurate brainwave in the second game;

'''Meden's Aide:''' Er... how did you know? }}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - Naughtyfins. Always.

** And she says that while poledancing, no less...

*** And some levels ahead, there's a cutscene at the entrance of your hideout... let's just say that Silver Hoshipon has had certain Dark Hero in mind lately...

** In Patapon 2, an item description for the Bishiri mask calls it the "Hero Mask of the Bollock Shot! Strike for maximum damage." Bollocks is an outright swear in Great Britain.

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]] - Present as bosses or larger enemies in hunting missions.

* [[Giant Spider]] - Centura and Darantula.

* [[Green Hill Zone]] - The first "serious" level of the first two games is always a hunting stage, with blue background, lush green plants, kaching-giving flowers and light hearted songs; Patata Plains in 1 and Tochira Beach in 2.

** In Patapon 3,it's no longer a hunting stage,instead being a series of tutorial levels. Still, the Training Grounds DO look a lot like Patata Plains.

** And then we have the level ''"Search for a Lucky Star"''. Oh my god. First off, despite what people might say, you do NOT have to sacrifice one of your own Patapons to get it to stop raining; it happens randomly, and scarcely. Once you {{spoiler|rescue Hoshipon}} from the Pincheek, '''you must keep still'''. March too far ahead, and he will get mad and promptly leave without giving you anything, and no one warns you about it except he himself saying "Hey hey, are you listening to me?" earlier. Oh, and doing this is the only way to obtain the [[McGuffin]] needed to unlock the [[Giant Enemy Crab]] boss and continue the story. Headdesks ensue.

** In Patapon 3, not all versions of the manual state where you can find the Pause command... which leads to several people completing the game without the ability to pause.

* [[Healing Potion]] - Sometimes these are dropped.

* [[Heel Face Turn]] - In each [[Sequel Hook]], {{spoiler|the Patapons are seen working with their enemy tribe to achieve whatever next challenge they'll be facing}}. Played with in the second game; [[Worthy Opponent|Gong just wants his honor from beating you]], but realizes about halfway through that the Karmens are a bigger issue.

* [[Hero Antagonist]] - The Zigoton species as a whole once you progress enough in the original game, when they switch from fighting you to push you back into their domination, into fighting you to prevent {{spoiler|the freakin' world from being destroyed!}}(which is what their legends state will happen if you reach IT). But specially General Gong: he cares for his troops (and his troops adore him back), remains loyal to his queen until the death, and sacrifices himself in a last stand to defend his species's honor, {{spoiler|which are about to be all turned into demons so the Patapon are stopped once and for all.}}

* [[Hero Unit]] - introduced in the sequel. Upgraded into the Uberhero for the third game.

* [[Hit Points]]

* [[Hyperactive Sprite]] - Your army in the first two games, everywhere from missions to the obelisk/barracks, except during cutscenes. Applies to the enemy tribes as well; it seems like everyone has some sort of disease that prevents them from stopping. Averted in Patapon 3 though.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] - Meden's unnamed assistant seems fairly more capable than she is.

* [[Impossible Item Drop]] - While the kaching, the currency may be justified as it is sort of representation of life force, things like enemies dropping potions and rocks may be not.

** The Patapon 3 website justified it on the Bonedeth's part by stating that they bring these potions to battle on purpose,[[Too Dumb to Live|they just forget to drink them.]]

* [[In a Single Bound]] - Several characters through the series. Dark Heroes are, again, the main offenders. Curiously, no Patapon character is seen doing this, just enemy characters.

* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]] - For some strange reason, the enemies and sometimes other things carry treasure chests with them in ''Patapon 3''.

* [[Informed Equipment]] - A rare voluntary variation of it. Since most helms don't look quite well on Uberheroes, they don't show on your character by default. However, you can choose to always show them in the options menu.

* [[Impassable Desert]] - Better get the rain juju.

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]] - In ''Patapon 3'', the weapons that can be carried, get extremely large at the end.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]- With the right combination,your hero can become this.For example, a pyokola dekapon with Rabasarana.

** One of the masks turns your character into one of these by granting both damage and speed, but also gives him a slight case of [[Glass Cannon]].

* [[Locked Door]] - Every single dungeon in P3.

* [[MacGuffin]] - IT is the main motivation of the Patapons on their journey to Earthend. What IT is, though, is unknown to anyone.

* [[Mama Bear]](or [[Papa Wolf]]) - Pekkora are cute, fluffy, sheep-like creatures that inhabit the snowy levels of Patapon 2. Usually, they have a [[Gentle Giant]] demeanor; they will refuse to attack back their offenders,and will simply try to run away at a slow pace along with their little Pekkorako. But, kill any of their children, even a single one, and they will turn into a terrifying monster with massive maws,in a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]...right at your army.

* [[Man On Fire]] - Unless you invested time and ka-ching in upgrading your troops's resistance to fire in later levels, expect your patapons to constantly run back and forth through the screen in a frenzy, their asses ablaze and losing health as they disobey your commands and unwittingly get in the way of enemy attacks.

* [[Meaningful Name]] - The series is filled with them.

** Earthend, as, if the Zigotons and Karmen are to be believed, the {{spoiler|''Earth'' will ''end'' if the Patapons find it.}}

* [[Mighty Glacier]] - Dekapons are slow to move and attack,but pack a punch everytime they hit.

* [[Mook Promotion]] - Makoton, a regular Zigoton warrior gradually becomes a formidable adversary later on.

** Everything vaguely on the Patapon's side/made by Patapons tends to have the symbol of a Patapon eyeball somewhere in their design, sometimes with a smile under it as in a megapon's face.

** List of things with the eyeball symbol:

* [[Musical Assassin]] - The Megapon units shoot sound wave projectiles out of tubas.

* [[Musical Gameplay]]

* [[Nintendo Hard]] - If you don't know what you're doing.

** Patapon 3 in general. Specially, the multiplayer dungeons. Even the first of these requires a well-coordinated lvl 25+ team with decent equip and rhytm skills to be completed. [[Oh Crap|And it only gets harder from there.]]

* [[No Body Left Behind]] - Patapons and the opposing tribes melt into puddles when killed; however it seems to be just the way their body works, as defeated Uberheroes melt as well but DO leave their mask behind. Averted with bosses. Played straight with Patapon 3's mini-bosses such as Treants and Cyclops, which just dissapear into nothingness.

** Averted in Patapon 3, however. The cutscenes do have your hero units in their equipped attire.

** In every game so far, at the very end, there's a part where three patapons (Ton, Chin and Kan) walk along with Hatapon towards {{spoiler|what they believe to be Earthend.}} In the first two games, these are three normal yaripons (spearmen) with normal spears, no matter what. In the third, the three normal heroes appear as their respective starter classes, each with their normal starter equipment.

* [[Nostalgia Level]] - The final duel against Ravenous features the original, unremixed version of {{spoiler|Gong's theme}} as the song. {{spoiler|He even says the same thing upon death!}}

** {{spoiler|At least this time [[Tear Jerker|it's just temporary.]] }}

* [[Only Sane Man]] - In Patapon 3 your hero seems pretty well aware about the insanity going around and often lampshades events and characters in his dialogue, even without the player's choice input. Within the different sides, Ragewolf does this to the other Dark Heroes, and Silver Hoshipon and Hatapon to the rest of Patapons.

* [[Pass Through the Rings]] - Patapon 2 and 3's obstacle courses. Only by getting past the signs you earn the needed time to get to the end. Specially frustrating in Patapon 3 as this is the only way to obtain the Pause song, and to reach it you're going to have to ''literally wipe out every single obstacle in range with your every attack command to make it to the end in time.''

*** Or maybe because it's the simplest command in-game.

** Non-mission example; In Patapon 3 not so much, but optimizing your squads in P1 and P2 right before deploying, even if you don't have any new weapons, feels so...relaxing.

* [[Power Gives You Wings]] - The ''Patapon 3'' intro demo...sort of. Hero gets wings indeed, but... on his head.

** The Barsala (wings on head) rarepon is the best obtainable rarepon of the original game, and is one of the three ultimate rarepons of ''Patapon 2''. Barsala Hero has been the series's mascot from ''Patapon 2'' onwards, and he even forms part of the ''Patapon 3'' logo. So it's definitely not far off.

* [[Random Event]] - Patapon 3. Sometimes (very scarcely) a special boss will appear, a very strong one. Chances are you are going to need multiplayer help to take them down if you don't want to be pummeled, though you may attempt them solo if you grinded enough. You'll be notified when this happens by Sukopon.

** Kacchidonga in Patapon 2.

** Averted by {{spoiler|Gorl, the final boss}} of the original ''Patapon''. The sky is just a really bright white. Of course, this doens't really help things when you notice the sickly reddish tones of the landscape, and the fact the sun/moon is ''[[Oh Crap|black]].''

* [[RPG Elements]] - The squad levels up in Patapon 3.

** Robopons are described as "the latest in Patapon technology."

* [[Strike Me Down]] - Beetleton,after a long battle he surrendered like a man!

* [[Sequel Hook]]

* [[Seven Deadly Sins]] - Each of the 7 dark heroes and their Archfiends in ''Patapon 3'' represents one sin.

* [[Smashing Survival]] - A gimmick of the Fenrir in Patapon 3. They will crouch down, and after a command's worth of time, will lunge at your Patapons. Get caught, and you will be prompted to [[Button Mashing|Button Mash]] to escape their fangs. If you fail to do so, insta-kill.

* [[Smash Mook]] - Dekapons (and its analogues). Giants in ''Patapon 3''.

** When attacking a heavily fortified oasis in ''Patapon 3'', a jolly circus music fever theme plays.

* [[Speaking Simlish]] - The Patapons speak vague-sounding Japanese but otherwise only sing the names of the drums. (Pon, Pata, Chaka, and Don.)

* [[Status Buff Dispel]] - The PATA! PON! DON! CHAKA! command.

* [[Stock Femur Bone]] - Most collectible bones are these.

** Hatapon. He cannot attack but he has a lot of health. Changed up a bit in the third game; he has ''much'' less health and can die in a handful of hits, but he's invincible as long as there's a shield class alive in the squad.

** The Guardira class in Patapon 3. It's attack isn't exactly high but it's Hero Mode puts up a massive shield that protects the whole party,while taking only 10% the damage it would receive normally from enemy attacks.

* [[Telephone Polearm]] - One of the weapons that can be carried in ''Patapon 3'' is a club 4 times longer than uberhero's height.

* [[That One Level]] - The Evilmass of Adamance in Patapon 3. It doesn't help that a certain guillotine gives players a [[Guide Dang It]] moment or even glitch out on you unexpectedly.

* [[Timed Mission]] - The obstacle course training levels in Patapon 2 and 3 have you try to reach the end before the timer runs out. Reaching it is, in fact, the only way to obtain the pause song in Patapon 3.

** The second floor of Estate of Earnestness has you doing this. Fail to reach the end in time and you won't obtain the key needed to open the gate and get to the boss.

* [[Title Drop]] - And ''how''! Its TDPM (title drop per minute) is rather high when playing this game.

* [[Turns Red]] - In Patapon 3, when you reduce a boss's health down to half, they will not have a preparation time before their attacks and instead attack immediately.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]] - Gong {{spoiler|returns from the dead in Patapon 2}}. Exactly how is never stated, but {{spoiler|perhaps defeating Gorl returned the Zigotons to what they once were?}}

* [[Walking Head]] - The Patapons and the tribes opposing them.Heck,they're EYES on stick legs!

* [[War Has Never Been So Much Fun]] - Brightly colored backgrounds, absolutely adorable critters as your army and your enemies, defeated units melt into the ground instead of collapsing in pools of gore. The Patapons's ultimate goal is to reach Earthend. Aww, look at the cute little eyeballs with [[Badass Adorable|swords and spears]] go at it!

* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]] - The Patapons and the Zigotons both want IT, but the Zigotons have a prophecy stating the Patapons will destroy the world if they march. {{spoiler|They don't even really find IT at the end.}} The Queen sort of lampshades it in the ending cinematic.

** Final bosses Gorl, Dettan Karmen, Arch Pandara. [[Eldritch Abomination]] with a hint of [[Body Horror]].

* [[When Trees Attack]] - ''Patapon 3'' introduces a tree-like enemy.

** Several enemies through the whole game series as well.

* [[Widget Series]]

* [[With Catlike Tread]] - Opposing tribes (specially in earlier levels) often attempt to ambush you...with varying results...

'''Another zigoton in the tall grass:''' *in the same stark white bubbles* Shh! There they are! }}

** Even when they don't speak, they always end up with half their bodies showing or their weapons popping up over the grass. Really stealthy, guys.

** when you kill it, it morphs back into its shapeshifting form, but the bats that usually fly around it die and fall to the ground.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: General Gong is later honored to fight the player.

** Patapon 1 is filled with this from the desert stage and on until almost the very end.

 

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