PaRappa is an incredibly charming and quirky game. I love it most of all because of how unique and original it feels. The art style is hard to describe but it shares a significant resemblance with Paper Mario in the sense that the characters look like paper cut-outs. The music is obviously at its centre with all raps being absolute jammers including this jazzy jammer playing in one cutscene:
Smooth Life of Mine

What cuts 2 stars from my rating is how stupidly precise every input has to be. There were a few stages where I got hardstuck because of this reason. Timing is a fundamental part of a rhythm game and by failing it, the game kinda fails. It's honestly very sad since I love the game otherwise. I've heard that the remastered game for the PS4 is even more punishing because of heavy latency.

PaRappa deserves better. Come on Sony, please bring PaRappa and his friends to justice, you gotta believe!