Overview:

Our hero, PaRappa, is trying to woo the girl he likes when her and their friends get accosted by some toughs. PaRappa then decides to get the help from Master Onion so he can win the girl and become the best rapper of them all! It’s a rhythm game with the teachers giving you a set of instructions for you to press the correct buttons in time with the music. The songs are also dynamic in which they end or keep going depending on how good you’re doing in the song.

Visuals:

This game is probably the precursor to Paper Mario in how it’s style is presented. All the characters are paper thin and highly animated. It’s very striking for being an early PlayStation 1 game and I think its style is still pretty amazing in this day in age.

Audio:

Our little dog is just rapping along with the music the entire time. The songs are catchy as well as the voice acting being pretty good for the time. The characters are all unique and memorable but, really, the point of this game is the music and it’s a banger.

Completion:

Fuck this game! It’s so fucking hard because the timing is so precise. I was playing it on my modern TV and was just failing horribly. I then tried a direct connection and still fucking failed. I just don’t have the rhythm, I guess, so I’ll never be able to woo the girl. I couldn’t even pass the fourth verse of the first song. I’m terrible. I did so terrible 5 fucking times I didn’t even get a chance to take screenshots of my playthrough. So, as a consolation, here is a picture taken from Wikipedia.