Preview, by Kristan Reed: "...Patapon does appear to do things somewhat differently, in that it also involves slaying monsters ten times the size of your little pocket army, although, admittedly, it wasn't especially clear how we were disposing of them. That wasn't important. The key bit was the audio visual meltdown that we were witnessing, as if we were somehow actively participating in the mental breakdown of joyfully unhinged creatives."