With the discharge of Astro Bot final 12 months, the world obtained a reminder of simply what number of beloved first-party franchises PlayStation was chargeable for in its glory days – and the way few of them are nonetheless alive at present. Whereas Sony itself appears all in favour of pursuing little past a handful of mega-franchises from its greatest studios, it is apparently more and more prepared to license out these sequence to different publishers: notably Bandai Namco, which introduced new Patapon and All people’s Gold video games throughout the Nintendo Direct for March 2025.
First we noticed Patapon 1+2 Replay, a remastered assortment of Sony’s two beloved PSP rhythm technique video games. Patapon helped type the height of Japan Studio’s repute for delightfully offbeat video games, and it was among the many extra well-liked components of that lineage, spawning not only one, however two sequels. There’s little else prefer it to this present day – apart, in fact, from designer Hiroyuki Kotani’s non secular successor, Ratatan, which is because of launch in 2025.
