So by now many have you hopefully have passed the nasty desert, took down a few bosses, and can catch the FEVER like you were one of those cats from Outbreak.
Now let’s talk about amp-ing up your Patapon army. As you have probably have found out, success in this game takes rhythm and focus, but that will only get you so far. You are going to have to build a bad-a$$ army, arm them to the teeth, and know how to put them to work.
“Where do they get those wonderful toys?”
Helmets, Shields and Weapons “Oh My!” There are a ton to collect in this game, if you keep on fighting the Zigotons, they will drop goodies left and right.
You can also acquire more gear from boss levels. You can replay boss levels infinitely, but as the level goes up so does the difficulty so man up your troops as you go along. Just as a sample here are some of the helmets you can score:
- wood helm = is standard issue
- iron helm = boosts stamina
- steel helm = boosts both stamina and defense
- wind helm = quickens attacks and resists flames
- strength helm = greatly boosts attacks
- ancient helm = greatly improves basic skills
- Giant Turtle helm = greatly improves defense
- Divine helm = resists flames and has destabilizing capabilities
“Simply Diviiine”
If you want the best of the best weaponry, nothing can beat “Divine Weapons.” While playing boss levels like the Mythical Stone Goliath Gaeen, you will see Mythril randomly drop.
Don’t run away or you’ll miss all the heavenly glory!
Take the Mythril to the blacksmith (which doesn’t unlock until later in the game), and if the user performs the blacksmith mini-game without error, the user will score a divine weapon. You can get one divine weapon per squad: Divine Spear, Bow, Horn, etc….
“Special Forces”
Not all Patapons are created equal. Rare-apons are Patas you customize yourself by offering things to Mater, the Tree of Life. To create Rare-apons mix any one of the top rare drops of the three categories (meat, rock, or wood). Combine 2 of the 3 rare drops together at the tree of life, to create a rare-apon.
Each of these Super-pons have special abilities:
- Pyokola (Orange) = slightly better all around stats then your standard Yaripon
- Mefeel ( Light Purple) = has the highest armor versus projectile weapons
- Gekolos ( lime green) = has the fastest attack
- Barsala ( Dark Green) = is the best rounded of all
- Mogyoon ( Dark Purple) = deals the most damage of all
- Tikulee ( Blue) = has the highest critical chance of damage
So which item combos yield which Rarepons? For this, we turn to Super Pata-fan AxelCloud’s YouTube page. He (or she!) spent a good amount of time making home videos of his (or her!) uber-rare Pata-force.
Thanks AxelCloud, may you make it safely to Earthend!
I am still near the beginning of the game after I get the X drum, now I’m trying to bring my Patapons to Fever mode at the beginning of the level when it tells me to, then I try to do the X combo and as soon as I hit X it tells me I failed and I lose the fever mode. Not sure if I’m just not hitting the right rhythm for the X’s or not, but I can’t seem to get that at all.
@51 andycapps
you can’t do that in the beginning of the game, if you want to stay in fever you need to hit your rythm perfectly (the March or Attack sequence), there’s, I think, 3 levels of getting your rythm, 1.perfect 2.good 3.barely there(which sounds like a really tight drum hit) and perfect has a big bass hit to it. Also if you watch the outline of the screen you hit the button when the line is the thickest… gamefaqs.com has a much better explanation then this on one of the faqs.
@xplosneer
No unfortunatly you can’t (as far as I know). It’s probably to balance things out a bit.
And if you are having trouble with a certian level, than just go hunt and beat bosses. Than make a new PataPon line up. You can disband Patapons you don’t need by pressing SELECT when viewing patapons in the Obelisk menu! Hope it helps :)
I really want to see the Patapon Game on PS3!!!!
any ps3 psn download?…..expansion?….this game selling like hot cakes everywhere
this game looks awesome. i would love for it to be made into a psn title =]
I keep hearing the Japanese version has exclusive weapons that didn’t make it to the US version. Is that true?!? Something about a sword and a bow.
So, I think enough time has passed. It’s time for some sort of Patapon 2 announcement, as well as BearBricks coming stateside. They are outrageously priced on eBay 50-60 dollars.
I\’d be stoked to give a Patapon 2 announcement one of these days. (crossing my fingers) Till then keep on spreading the word about Patapon 1. As for Be@rbricks, if you are not a member of the PlayStation Underground yet, then register soon cause we are going to have a cool Patapon contest coming soon and you can score some sweet Pata-Schwag…including the elusive Be@rbrick!