I complete forgot about the Katamari games! I used to play the everloving heck out of one of the demos but never played the full game lol
Was going to mention this. It's a pretty brutal game by today's standard of difficulty since the platforming is a nightmare and some of the bosses are really challenging.
Gitaroo Man is a hidden gem and everyone needs to experience it at least once.
Old Koei games had so much soul especially with the hilarious dubbings. Samurai Warriors was really fun too.
I loved the ridiculous guitars in the Dynasty Warriors games. 3 and 4 are my personal favorites although I have played more of the later ones. The later ones lost the zaniness that the older ones had and made things needlessly complicated.
What's the appeal about Dynasty Warriors games? In my experience it's just walk up to an enemy and press a couple buttons until everyone is dead. Or did I make a mistake on my first Dynasty Warriors game being one of the newer ones? Maybe I should've put the difficulty higher? I don't remember if that even was an option.
OH MAN! I love the Armored Core games. I've been busy playing Beat Down Fist of Vengeance on PS2 as my break from fighting games. It would be great to revisit Armored Core 2 as it less overwhelming than the later games to see if I can still pull off the ACs I used to build back then. I was planning to play Urban Reign after Beat Down though, so now I'm torn between that and Armored Core.
Tokobot Plus is worth revisiting, if you ever played the PSP release this isessentially the same game with additional content. It's a puzzle-oriented 3D platformer where you command a bunch of tiny robots to get you through different hazards and obstacles, kind of like Pikmin but not really. Definitely worth a try. It was quite the late PS2 release as well.
I remember seeing this game first on G4TV. They were hyping it up like crazy. I got it for PC still in the box. :DView attachment 1661
Psychonauts details the adventures of Razputin ("Raz" for short), a 10-year old who is gifted with psychic abilities. Raz runs away from his family's circus because his father does not appreciate his psychic gift, making him practice acrobatics day after day, so he runs away & sneaks into a highly classified remote government training facility camp for those with similar powers, so he can train to become a Psychonaut and prove his worth. Soon, however, he finds that there is a sinister plot unfolding at the camp, which only he can stop. ?
There is a reason this game is considered a "cult classic" one of the funniest games I've ever played
its a fairly basic 3d platformer but the story, characters and humor is what make it so Special
I loved Aqua Aqua. It was one of the first and best games I got for my PS2.
Completely agree, Origins and Legends are very polished games and I had a great time playing then coop with my sister, but they are very straightforward jump and run type platformers without much depth. I heard rumors(?) that either a new game or a remake of a 3d Rayman is in the works, but with how ubisoft is nowadays I really wouldn't get my hopes up.
I played Legends first on the PS4 then Origins around three years ago on the Wii. The sequel is a huge step up in terms of level design, soundtrack and gameplay elements. Gamemakers Toolkit did an excellent video explaining how they made water levels fun (achieving the impossible). But it felt so linear and restricted, there was no big environment to explore. Rayman 2 / Revolution / 3D etc. (whichever version you played or prefer) was a lot better in that the world popped out at you. Rayman 3 was short but sweet.
To me the Origins/Legends games are just more 2D endless runners in an endless sea of 2D endless runners. It's like the DKC Returns games.
DKC Tropical Freeze is still amazing. It isn't as iconic as the Rare trilogy with the motion graphics tho.
Forgot to mention these two. Zone of the Enders was an amazing game. I never played the sequel, but played through the original multiple times, plus it came with the MGS2 demo.
