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Message: [QUOTE="Tenshishi, post: 558279, member: 91192"] As someone who didn't have access to a credit or debit card as a kid, I needed to buy those $20 PlayStation Store cards to get a lot of things... And the way that usually broke down, that meant a $15 major DLC, and $5 to use the best I could. That category got me some trash, but some of it was surprisingly good: - [B]Who's That Flying?![/B] by Mediatonic is a fun combination of a tower defense and a scrolling shooter where you defend several cities from an invading alien menace, with a short but fun story experience as well as endless play options. - [B]One Epic Game[/B] is a simple endless runner - you can jump, you can shoot. That is all. But it's still entertaining to try to high distances in, and the brief story mode is a fun shakeup of the mechanics. Soundtrack is good too! - [B]N.O.V.A.[/B] is about as "we have Halo at home" as you can get... But hey, we genuinely didn't have Halo at the time! Finally a space shooter I can have on my Vita too! (Which is also what drove me to play [B]Section 8[/B] and its sequel [B]Prejudice[/B]... Do they count?) Then obviously there's no shortage of other handheld dreck-to-gold: - What's this, the fifth time I've asked if [B]Egg Mania[/B] counts as a cheap, shovelware, underrated, etc. game? Go play Egg Mania! - [B]Shrek 2[/B] on GBA is a nice puzzle platformer for the kiddies. It's no prizewinner, but it has this weird charm to its gameplay and music that keeps me occasionally revisiting it. - [B]The Grinch[/B] on GBC is no slouch - it's a Konami game, and it dumps all over the PS1 title by using art and plot more reminiscent of the original storybook, and the gameplay is a thrilling timed stealth collectathon adventure across a slew of challenging levels. - The [B]Yu-Gi-Oh![/B] games on GBA are a mixed bag of experiences: Destiny Board Traveler is genuinely shovelware junk, but then there's an ascending set of duel sims like [B]Eternal Duelist Soul[/B] and [B]Stairway to the Destined Duel[/B] that offer a great breakdown of the classic pre-GoaT duel gameplay, [B]The Sacred Cards[/B] and [B]Reshef of Destruction[/B] take a crack at an RPG setting (being too easy and too hard respectively, and with flawed mechanics, but still pretty fun), and [B]Dungeon Dice Monsters[/B] is pretty much the only way to experience that alternate property these days. - [B]Shaman King: Master of Spirits[/B] is great for those of you who love GBA Castlevania but have played the trilogy to death and just need more. - The first [B]Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku[/B] is as bad a game as you can get... The sequels [B]II[/B] and [B]Buu's Fury[/B] are the exact opposite. You get to really sink your teeth into the Android + Cell Saga and Majin + Buu Saga respectively, powering up your protagonists, exploring the world, doing side quests, and jamming to mixes of the Falconer OST that sound better than his own renditions... Dragon Ball tends to do better than other licenses for this category, but I'll get real here: I would rather play these two games than any Budokai, Kakarot, or even FighterZ any day. [/QUOTE]

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