I think I had some frazzled memory recounting the epic tale of Sony's Naughty Dog's The Last of Us' Part Dos. I think I ordered MMMM in May but was telling a friend about it a month later while playing TLOUPII (otherwise known as Tee-Loopee 2), when the game was actually out. So therefore, the idea to make a video on this was thanks to Abby Lastofus, but actually ordering the game wasn't. I'm sorry to have lied to you.

I had the immense pleasure of getting to meet Rodney Alan Greenblat at a small indie comics and art festival back in 2016. He's a really nice guy and he was happy to sign my copies of PaRappa and UmJammerLammy. Excellent work as always, MykonosFan!

To me Parappa the Rapper 2 is just plain so good. I would unironically put it up there as one of the most enjoyable rhythm games I've ever played purely based on the fact that the games always reward you for not just playing Simon says with what you're presented. You CAN beat a Parappa game just copying the others but the fun comes from having fun, and having more freedoms. Project Rap Rabbit feels like it might have taken that angle as well which saddens me that it never saw the light of day proper.

I was one of the Project Rap Rabbit backers. I was pretty disappointed when it didn't reach its goal but I wasn't that surprised either

I hope there’s some miracle where the title of this video ends up aging like milk

I always thought that a 3rd Parappa could work if established rappers and artists were there to guest star as the new instructors.

From what I hear, Greenblat's stress with working on the anime (Sony restricted him to character designs and refused to give him creative input) and how he felt he was unable to come up with anything as successful as PaRappa caused him to leave the video game industry, though he and Matsuura did come back for MMMM, which, well... He also really hated the anime, which, as a whole, was only... decent.

I just hate how Sony only Focus in hyper realistic games

This and Ape Escape... man I need sequels for them badly 😔

I adore the 2 Parappa games and Lammy. So so unique, charmingly lovable and weird. As someone who has only played on PC for like 7 years now, a new Parappa would be the only thing that would make me buy a new PlayStation. This is definitely the fist time I've heard of this March game.. but I'm intrigued now.. I also love Vib Ribbon!

Heyo!! I wanted to say a couple things!! First, I love this video! The info is collated super well and the points are very unbiased, which I love! I wanted to bring to light some things about the series, and where it's heading. And, this is gonna sound super fake, because, ya know, everyone lies on the internet. However, since 2017 I've kept in touch with the VA of PaRappa over Facebook. Regarding the whole college situation, he honestly feels really bad about it even after this long, and is actively trying to get his life back together after a rough patch. Dred (the VA) really wants a 3rd game, he views PaRappa as a part of his identity, which I find so special, and so wholesome, his passion for the series is still so strong. From what he's told me in the past, he's currently trying to rent out studios to produce his own music, which I think is super neat!! And lastly, the main reason for us not getting a 3rd game as of now, is Sony. The VAs alone cannot make it happen, sadly, so, unless PaRappa regains a surge of popularity, or people pitch brilliant ideas to Sony that maintain the charm of the past PaRappa and UJL games, Sony will not recognise the niche demand for a 3rd game after this long. P.S. if there's anything you want me to pass on to Dred, lemme know and I'll let u know if he responds and what with!! Thank you for listening!!

This is just a Major Minor's Majestic March review.

wow... as much as i liked the parappa games i never knew about the existence of MMMM, now i see why the creators wouldn't want a failure like this to happen again

Kinda sad we won't be getting another Parrappa game probably ever, it was fun to revisit.

i think something that could have given the game a lot more variety was if they stretched the interpretation of “marching band leader” and tried different things with it. maybe for most of the game MM doesn’t form proper marching bands but instead finds opportunities to practice leading other things like conga lines, cross country running, parties, raves, whatever, and then in the last level his leadership skills have become so well known around town that they ask him to lead the festival marching band. Kinda like how parappa doesn’t actually rap on a stage until the finale. Having different instruments and music genres in different levels would also have a lot of potential.

Sony currenly is focused in "americanized" their AAA games. That's the conclusion that I get when they shuted down Japan Studio.

The game might not be popular enough for Sony to make sequels, but at least there's still alot of people making videos of them. Also there was like 3 popular memes about parappa, so thats nice

Ima pour one out for my homie. RIP PaRappa

Nice to see what this game is finally about and yeah... it doesn't seem to hold a candle to Parappa, the marching band aesthetic doesn't really lend itself either. Very good point about why we'll never get a new one and how easy it is to write games off with malice, people still made these games and that shouldn't be forgotten no matter the quality. Also the piece you recognised from Pokémon sounds like an Animal Crossing piece to me

why does project rap rabbit looks like a fusion of vibri, mojib ribbon, and parappa? :o

kinda said they never remastered um jammer lammy

MMMM could have been a great game if they just hammed up the drum line aspect of it. Some places really make drum line a whole spectacle.

Rip prappa and his hat 😢 he will be missed

Look man, all I’m saying is that there’s a big market for rhythm games now that a wealth of kids got into Friday Night Funkin’ and loved it. I feel like if Parappa is ever gonna come back, it should be soon

When I look at Major Minor’s Majestic March, and I see how it panned out, it makes me think of how Patapon, another marching band-like rhythm game, was able to differentiate itself and become a unique masterpiece unlike anything else I’ve seen. It breaks my heart to see MMMM turn out the way it did

Who else is here after parappa 3 got announced…..i wish

Honestly, what could of happened was that instead of "lets march to place..place was fun let's go to other place now" instead when they arrive major meets someone who has a problem and he uses his baton kinda like a wand and uses the button input like parrapa to orchestrate music while the character with the problem sings. After the song ends the character gets inspired by major to join him and unlock a song or singing option. During the games ending (and reference with major losing the baton) he realizes that the magic wasn't just the baton, but from major believing in himself similar to how parappa believed in himself at every song stage.

I so want PaRappa and Bust a Groove back!!!! They were so much fun in the RG circuit! We gotta fight to get them back!!!!

what if one day they just make vib ribbon 2 with mp3 capabilities or whatever everyone expected and wanted parap 3 but instead we got the return of the queen

Also this video is underrated!! thanks youtube for reccomending this amazing video!!

I think I saw a MMMM commercial on Disney Channel once? Or maybe it was a review from Wiiviewer back in the day when he was some sort of A Deal on KZfaq. Always wanted to try it. As a kid I was very obsessed with weird and bad video games (even joined GameFly just to rent Ninja Breadman) and so it was square on my radar. I may have even known about it before I knew about Parappa.

I feel like Parappa is the kind of franchise that would be more appreciated by Nintendo.

Honestly MMMM was just flawed from the beginning while the idea of being a drum major is a neat concept in execution it doesnt work as an entire game. Waving your baton is only good in bite sized moments.

eggplant fox reminds me of gaster

KZfaq Recommended I never heard of this game but I still listen to parappa the rapper soundtrack

Abby Lastofus made this happen

Honestly i think the reason why Parappa 3 hasn't happened is simpler if i would guess its beacuse. The games are short, There isn't much opportunity for dlc and in game items and a rhythm adventure game is not cheap to make and beacuse the games short length alot of people wouldn't be okay with paying 60 or 70 dollars for it. With these factors in mind i don't think Sony feels its worth making another entry in the Parappa series.

I feel like they should to try to bring back Project Rap Rabbit since there kind of is a demand for vocal based rhythm games now. Friday Night Funkin and Scratchin Melody are evidence of if this

We still gotta believe I guess :'(

I never understood why Sony neglects their numerous legacy IPs. It feels like the only PS1 games they ever care about are titles they don't even own which include Crash, Spyro, Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy VII. "Genere's niche" Given the success FNF had, there is no excuse a rhythm game can become successful today. The Kickstarter for Rap Rabbit failed because of how poorly run the campaign runs like not even showing any concept gameplay until there was less than a week left as well as not even properly publicizing it. Also the stretch goals were beyond asinine.... they asked 3 million dollars for a Switch port at first despite it being known how a Switch dev unit doesn't cost that much... they even had stretch goals for backer exclusive stages... I've heard of Major Minor's Majestic March back in 2012 when I first got in the Parappa franchise. The idea of a rhythm game with motion controls sounded like a horrible idea for 15 year old me and the fact that veterans in the industry thought it would work is laughable. I know Rhythm Heaven Fever would've been a bad game if it had motion controls and I'm glad those devs had the right idea.

Im still praying we'll get an um jammer lammy remaster hopefully Playstation will change their mind and give us another remaster for us dedicated fans

Ya ever heard of scratchin meloddi? Spiritual successor to parappa, looks promising. Pretty good video mrkonos

You also forgot "Leave it to Lammy!" quote from Um Jammer Lammy which is also very similar to that "March march keep on marchin' !"

Vib-ribbon was awesome

You just gotta believe

it's sad how PlayStation only ever seems to be interested in making is extremely high budgeted titles and never smaller games.

If rockband didn't exist we'd probably have another game now the genre is shovelware.

Parappa the rapper is like patapon both of the games wont appear again

IM SO HIGH RIGHT NOW AND THAT KEEP ON MARCHING BIT SCARED THE ABOSULTE FUCKING HELL OUTNOF ME VRYGBHVVVL

Aww~ I love how you said sweet little doggie~

One game you didn’t really go over was vib-ribbon which was made by the same guys and IMO was better than Pa-Rappa

I sure hope that they don't make PaRappa NFT's, both NanaOn-Sha & Sony are better than this.

Sony REALLY need to reboot their gaming division. Closing Japan Studio is part of WHY gaming is going downhill! The Xbox 360 didn’t have much in the way of cartoony kids games, at least until Kinect came along, but the PS3 had a good few thanks in part to the many Japanese studios developing for it!

I love that Sony took a chance on this. Such a gem.

I love Parappa the Rapper 2 and Um Jammer Lammy MUCH better than Parappa the Rapper 1. Parappa 1 has some pretty good songs, but horrible detection. You can play perfectly, or even play just an amazing freestyle and then get told you're bad. It took me so long to beat that game due to the horrible detection.

But now we got scratchin melody

The only reason I know about MMMM is because pbg made fun of it lollll

You gotta do what? I gotta MARCH

I watched him upload this live on Twitch.

Scratchin Melodii is a really good clearly parappa inspired game

why are your views so low wtf this vid is so cool 😭😭😭

Did not expect a random game peanutbuttergamer played to have a long history behind it and be connected to parappa the rapper, of all things.

the idea isnt the issue its the execution if they added a button mode it would have been slightly better to play (from what i see)

I love Parappa, I thought I was relatively clued-in on crowd-funded gaming projects :^| this is the first I’ve heard of that rabbit project

i knew parappa on smash clone from sony, then years later i discovered chinese stream meme from parappa HAHAHA and that pushes me to play parappa 1 and two, its very funny lol

It would be interesting if they made another one. The games seem to be very bad in gameplay so it would great to see a more new game with great game play.

I only knew about MMMM because of PeanutButterGamer. It's interesting to get more of the history of it Also at 7:45 , that voice just sounds like a Chris Chan impression to me, I don't know how to feel about that, lol

Atleast we still have Scratchin Melodii by SEGA

I'll be forever grateful to PewDiePie for playing the first Parappa on his channel. I'd never heard of these games before that, and honestly, that changed everything for me. I bought a damn PSP just so I could play the game myself. A little later down the line I got a hold of Parappa 2 on PS2 and played the absolute shit out of that. Years later I bought both of these again on PS4 and again played and played and played until I heard the songs in my sleep. Parappa the Rapper 2 must be my favorite in the series, I've sure put the most hours into it, but I greatly love the first one too, it's just so iconic.

Discovered you while checking the 10 year old comments on the sonic colors reveal and this is pretty nice content

Lol, I remember the project rap rabbit. I always wondered what happened with that, it honestly looked better than an official Parappa project.

Can we at least get another level with that flea market frog. I was mad when he wasn't in the second game.

that was the perfect time to say that but a spirital successor is coming out just diffrent people are working on it now it's called scratchin melodii that game is awesome you should check it out i got a love from the creator!

PaRappa got da Half-Life secuel problem, VALVE has something to do with ma favorite dawg?

I didn't know Major Minor's Majestic March, I understand better why there was nothing after Parappa the rapper 2 (Major Minor's Majestic March was released in Europe but only in the United Kingdom despite it being translated for all the languages of Europe)

Making a Parappa/Um Jammer Lammy game is not easy, i think MMMM shows exactly how difficult creating the cartoony world and scenarios that Parappa has. Also nobody thinks about how difficult making music is, it's nearly impossible to create a consistently loved album long music set list, much less making it freestyle friendly. I would love another game but it's easy to forget how much work went into the 3 existing games.

Me personally, I'd love to see a sequel to parappa the rapper, or a remaster to PTR2 for a 30 year anniversary that includes online 2 player modes, and that would be compatible for Xbox, PlayStation, PC and mobile.

What hit me at the end that's even sadder about MMMM (lol) is that I probably wouldn't even have clicked on this if it didn't have Parappa in the title. Not to say I didn't enjoy the MMMM review, very interesting story, specially liked the commentary at 5:58 anyway nice video man much love

I thought for sure after PlayStation allstars we would get a third game. Its time for a sequel to the second.

Finally, more MMMM content to add to the pile. As one of all two unironic fans it's already great to watch people fucking demolish it

As someone who is a recent fan to parappa, I really wish we get something new, and I don’t own a play station… so I cannot play the original 😭

I'd mainly say there won't be a sequel considering what Parappa's VA did. EDIT: MARCH! MARCH! KEEP ON MARCHING!

Scratchin' Melodii is similar to Parappa

this be like half life 3

A rabbit samurai with locs is a cool design tho

idk i came up for a name for a new parappa game called Pa-Rapper

at least we have scratchin melodii

The music in this game slapped 🔥

wasn't there a project someone was making that played like parappa and starred a little girl with headphones? Is that considered a good succesor or was that project abandoned?

Shame that sony haven’t been bothered with the series

Major minor was so bad that it killed a completely unrelated franchise

This is going to age like milk

parrapa the rapper 3 be like: HEY YOU ARE THE CREAM CHEESE FACTORY OWNERS DAD. SHUT UP I HATE CREAM CHESE THATS WHY EVERYTHING IS CHEESE

Great Great Grandma vaguely sounds like Mickey Mouse.

sony would only make parappa 3 if it had already come out on ps4

i always asked myself this question

GGGG sounds like Randy Rose from the residents what the hell

PARAPPA MERCH!!!!!!!!!

Don't worry, guys, we still have Scratchin' Melody!

People remember parappa because it was weird. Truth is tho, it just wasnt a good game and its not worth it to bring it back...