Trivia / Patapon

• Descended Creator: Both Hiroyuki Kotani and Kemmei Adachi did the vocals for the music of Patapon 2 and Patapon 3.
• He Also Did: Kemmei Adachi, the games' composer, also wrote some of the music for LocoRoco, which has a similar tone and art style to Patapon.
• Killer App: For the PlayStation Portable. Since other games on the device were mostly ports, Patapon was a pillar of the console's original releases for its' entire lifespan, along with LocoRoco, various Monster Hunter titles and the two God of War games released for the system. It garnered enough popularity to be referenced as a stage hazard in Playstation All Stars Battle Royale.
• Real-Life Relative: The voices of the Patapons in the music of the first game were provided by Kotani's then-ten-year-old son.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Patapon 1 would have included Toripons, who debuted in the sequel.
  • The player would have had a larger army in Patapon 3.
  • Patapon 3 has an unused dream sequence of the Uberhero when he was still the Heropon. It's a rather violent scene of him telepathically levitated and beat up by an unknown entity, followed by an arm and leg getting ripped off his body. Take a gander as to why it was not included in the final release.
• Working Title: The game was initially named War Carnival in RolitoLand before Rolito and Kotani agreed to use "Patapon", which Rolito based off of an old French word for "children" but also fittingly reminded Kotani of the Japanese onomatopoeia for drum sounds.

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