Neither are obscure, but I played the shit out of Ace Combat Shattered Skies and Simpsons Hit and Run…
Ace Combat 4 was one of the most legit games of all time.
Of the holy trilogy, I still like AC4 more because of the anime picture cut scenes.
I feel like the anime styled cut scenes delivered a more nuanced story than the other games. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who lost his family to war. Your silent protagonist slowly achieves fame. By the end, it’s revealed that his story is a letter to you, the pilot. There’s more plot, so any retro gamers reading this, it’s super recommended for story and music. I love the gameplay, but obscure childhood game symptom.
Dude simpsons hit and run is a banger. I use to get that game from the video club store and play it for hours. Tbh all kid’s movies and tv series on games were bangers, Kung fu panda, toy story, rattatouille etc
Playing as Mobius One felt incredible when enemy comma started referring to you as the Grim Reaper and whatnot.
What a game.
You’re not going to believe this Jean-Louis! All of them have ribbon insignias!
Core childhood memory. I remember getting this game for Christmas 2004 and playing it religiously until the sequel came out a year later.
The Legend of Dragoon. We need a reissue of it 🥲
I’ll just leave this here
GitHub - Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains: Legend of Dragoon decompiled, reverse engineered, and ported to PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck · GitHub https://github.com/Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains
Bro I had that for ps1. I had no idea how to play it but would waste hours on it just killing stuff
I would so fuck with that. It would be nice to see some of those cutscenes and dialogue with better translation and animation.
I thought that was ps1?
The proto expedition 33
Am grill but:
Gameplay looks dope, might look for a ROM of this!
Shadow of the Colossus… Man, way to put me in my feels
I’ve revisited this game more than any other.
It still gets me.
I played Evergrace at my cousin’s house. I have such fond and vivid memories from that game. But when I went back to play it as an adult, I realized that it’s kind of terrible.
Mister Mosquito
Wow someone else that played this gem lol
oh god. when i was a kid i bought one of those game magazine when ps2 launches. the first ps2 game they covered was mister mosquito and i remember thinking. wow, ps2 is so cool
What is the gameplay like, the screenshots make it look like a mosquito simulator 😄
That’s exactly what it is!
You’re a mosquito that gets into a house and you have to suck as much blood as you can from the family as you can without getting squished.
You fly around, waiting for the right moment to land and start sucking blood, being careful not to be seen. Each level has a certain amount of blood to collect before you can move on, and the family gets increasingly more vigilant about killing you as they talk to each other about getting bit.
A bit younger than ps2, and for PC, but still.
What? Is this the Original kungfu panda?
It’s his Japanese cousin ig lmao
Hey don’t make this about PS2. I still get a bit emotional thinking about:
- [Swarm Assault ](https://dzierzan.itch.io/opensa
- Red Ace Squadron
- GTA Vice City (not exactly niche, but it was the first violent game I played)
Thanks for this post, because otherwise I would never have found out that someone recreated Red Ace Squadron in Unreal Engine
This is Freedom Fighters for me.
that game was so sick, taught me what a molotov cocktail was and what it was for
The Jesper Kyd Soundtrack… Chefs kiss.
Picked it back up on steam for a few bucks. Honestly still pretty fun
gender-affirming lack of obscure ps2 game
coming back to this post later to find recommendations though…
There’s plenty of girls that bonded with an obscure ps2 game in their youth. Xenosaga was the shit.
That captain crunch game for the PC.
Dark Cloud 🤘🤘🤘
Onimusha for me, or maybe dark cloud if that counts.
“shovelware” movie/cartoon franchise tie-in games, my beloved
Asterix & Obelix: XXL 2, Ice Age 2 (the game), G-Force (the game)…
“Slop” used to be peak.
What about random tie in games from non-game products? It’s not exactly shovelware, but I have fond memories of the Doom-clone Chex Quest
That sounds cool too
