This becomes a problem when a noodle-themed dinner at Sunny Funny has him running off and being called a baby by Sunny, and then finding that every food is suddenly turning into noodles. Recently, Parappa won a lifetime’s supply of noodles from a contest, and has been forced to eat noodles so much that he can’t stand the sight of it. It’s just another PaRappa game, which is perfectly fine since that means it’s a fun time with excellent music and is even the most accessible of the three, but that also means there’s not much new going on.
They were all taking the concept and going in new directions with it, which might be why PaRappa the Rapper 2 saw such a muted reception at the time. By late 2001, the rhythm-action genre was making waves round the world, with Konami putting out about a dozen hugely popular Dance Dance Revolution, GuitarFreaks and DrumMania games, Enix publishing the cult classic Bust-A-Groove series, and even NanaOn-Sha creating the minimalist innovator Vib-Ribbon.
