Great 2d PS2 games? What year is this?

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    In all seriousness, I find myself looking forward to a great game on the last gen system again, this game looks fun, the animation looks great and from what I've been reading it's much deeper than it looks.  The game is called Odin Sphere and is coming out this month:

 

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3159216

 

Before you ask what's so special about how the game looks, you have to check the videos of the game in action, they look A LOT better than the screenshots:

 

http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3157053&type=game&sec=VIDEOS

 

Pretty much the game I'm lookign forward to the most this month outside of importing Ouendan 2...