Patapon Successor Ratatan Earns Over 10 Times Its Goal in Booming Kickstarter Campaign

I'm glad to see this do really well on Kickstarter. The chance of us getting a new Patapon is pretty much zero so why not have fans make a successor.

@Deadlyblack It's not the fans making it, the developers are the original creators of the game.

@puddinggirl Oh really? Even cooler then!

Patapon games were great. I loved them on my ol' PSP. But part of the magic was playing them on handheld. Not sure a PS5 would be my go to platform to play them if available on Switch, same as I would not prefer FPS or Sport Games on Switch if available on PS5.

Managed to squeeze my help right at the end. Game seems like it will be good fun and I hope this shows companies like Sony that there is a place for games like this

In its FAQ, the dev team says it's "quite far along in the production cycle" and is targeting April 2025

Yeah, in my experience with video game Kickstarters, I’d add at least 1 year to that date, but maybe as many as 5. Not a criticism, just managing people’s expectations when it comes to crowdfunded projects. (I backed Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and it was worth the wait for me. I hope this one turns out good for everyone.)

Community based funding is the future of small indie games since most big publisher want to make all the money. Heck even sony want to go full in to live service games.

There are few exception though, like bamco that still make games like little nightmare 3 😃

I think Patapon was cute but it didn't click with me. However I was totally into LocoRoco 1 and 2. They are 2 of the best games I've ever played and a sequel or a successor is definitely something I'd support via Kickstarter.

@Deadlyblack Yep, the Patapon IP belongs to Sony after Japan Studio was shut down. Hence, they can't use the same name.

I wonder something. Why don't devs make more spiritual successors instead of waiting for the IP holder to give them the go ahead which would likely never happen?

Bomb Rush cyberfunk, Bloodstained symphony, ratatan. These games look like straight up sequels. It seems that all that's necessary is to change the name and change the mechanics a little bit.

Glad it's doing well.

Niche games always get overlooked, they have an audience, whether big enough who knows. But some will try, many will ignore.

We barely get spiritual successors to niche games and more nostalgic Indies (I prefer the unique Indies actually doing new things, or if they are inspired actually change up things more with some mechanics) for popular games (take people that only played what they did when they were kids, barely expand out to new games and only those in a familiar space or those series only and replay them over and over till the sequel/find other things to do).

I have wanted a new perspective game and Viewfinder does that. It isn't EchoChrome 1 or 2/EchoShift and that's fine.

It does it's thing and I'm fine with that. I don't need it to be like Portal I need it to go with it's ideas and strengths not oh mainstream journalist reviewer wanted Portal well good for you play Portal and let this Indie make a more interesting game.

I'm glad when niche ones get to do their thing, keep their uniqueness, continue to put a spin on things as the mainstream are as bland and ever and no story/theme/setting (and appeal to casuals that's fine, us seeking other things can find them in other places that appeal to us and support them) is going to convince over unique gameplay ideas.