Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
I can barely get that one guy to move, I got him to move really slowly by tapping left, left, left, right to the beat of the drums but he would just make a step on every last tap of the above sequence and complain that I'm doing it wrong, any other combination I tried just leaves him standing around.
Congratulations - your sense of rhythm is as bad as mine. This is why I never got past the early levels in the original PSP game.

Your timing must be off slightly, or you are missing a single beat. Watch the screen and you will see 'pata' and 'pon' appear when you press those buttons. If the word is in colour you got the timing right; if it's grey then you didn't. The brighter the colour the closer your timing was to perfect. You need to get all 4 on time to give the command. Then you need to try and give your next command without missing a beat after their reply.

I've found this trailer where you can watch and hear a perfect chain of march and attack commands being given. It's about 35 seconds in, and makes far more sense than a text explanation.

One other thing I love about this game: the names of the patapon types. Yumipon, yaripon (and others) - sound familiar to any Shogun vets? Yup, they are named after their weapons in Japanese.