The entire patapon series is fantastic. Highly stylized 2d fantasy "strategy" game where you command an army by beating 4 seperate drums in rhythym (called, Pata, Pon, Don and Chaka) to create commands for your army to follow.
For example "Pata Pata Pata Pon" is order to march, "Pon Pon Pata Pon" is attack order, "Chaka Chaka Pata Pon" is defend, "Pata, Pon, Don, Chaka" is rally and so on and so forth, there's about 10 or so commands total some of which combo with themselves, like "Charge" order (Pon Pon Chaka Chaka) amps up your next attack or defence for full tank or all out attack.
The game requires you to keep constant rhythm and the longer you go without losing a beat the stronger your army gets upgrading their attacks and entering a permenant "fever mode" that changes all their fighting styles as long as you maintain a combo of 10 or longer.
The game also has an incredible soundtrack being a musical game filled with catchy songs.
A thing to note, usually after every command you send with the drums, the army sings it back at you as they attack/defend/retreat/whatever. There versions of songs both with the singing and without. Some people like the singing some don't, I like both.
And the art is also incredibly creative insanely memorable and highly stylized.
What I appreciate about the game is that despite its highly "auteur"-ish style both visual and musical it does not fall back on gameplay. Between the three games there's between 9 and and 21 (28 in pvp mode) classes ranging from giants, to hoseriders, to birdriders, to chariot riders, to bards, cannoneers, crossbowmen, archers, longbowmen, warriors with gigantic robotic arms, spearmen, black mages, white mages and everything inbetween all with their unique flavours and abilities as well as hundreds of build paths, class abilities, traits, upgrades, items and lots of intresting mechanics like sacrificing your perfect combo to summon gods and miracles on the field, crafting, "evolving" your patapons and many more.
And if that wasn't enough the third game also has an insanely in depth multiplayer mode both for PvP and Co-op fully fleshed out with clans, multiplayer mechanics, dungeons and all that fine stuff.
Patapon is one of those rare games that is literally 100% from top to bottom pure soul and it really stuck with people seeing as it got three sequels and even today there's tons of discords both for discussion coop and modding of the game.
It was originally on PSP but you can easily play it on the PPSSPP emulator.
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