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I don't want to come in with a bunch of rants on AAA games or some indie darlings I feel are very wrong and way too high. Be here until I am 98 years old.
God Hand. One of the best beat em ups ever made. Critics didn't get it because it's complex and highly challenging. Over the years people have come around and realized how amazing it is.
This could be a thread about what me and my friend call "Fuck Japan era" where in the 2000s there was a high western racist take in Japanese media, esp games. I won't dive too much into that for this thread but my avatar is one of the games I will mention. Armored Core got shat on by reviews. Jeff Gerstman admitted he didn't care so he would assign AC reviews to a freelancer or new guy. They didn't want to either. Only after it became popular to suck From Softs dick did an AC game get great reviews. Funny thing is AC6 is probably middle of the pack for AC games. I consider the best one Armored Core For Answer. Also directed by Miyazaki. The games speed is insane. The best mech in the series with White Glint (avatar). Patches from Souls games first appearance.
Gungrave has a cult following enough to even get a PS5 game which fans enjoy but critics never understood it and docked it. They are really fun arcades games. They were purposefully made and this is the devs give or take own words. So a drunk salary man could come home and play the game. They are simple fun but not a Simple 2000 game.
Nightshade PS2. A Sequel to the excellent Shinobi PS2 game. This game got a lot of hate but I have now finished it 3 times in a the last month. It's a good game. Some bosses are trickier but other than that it's pretty much more of what made the first game so good.
Ghost Rider PS2. This is one of those 7/10 games. Not the 4's and 5's it was given. It is a solid Devil May Cry clone licensed from the awful 2007 movie of the same name. The combat is solid. While levels are mostly just combat after Combat where PS2 era DMC was more RE but with stylish combat. It's still fun for what it is and between levels you have motorcycle segments which can be fun. Honesty, after Soulstice it;s the best western take on DMC I have seen.
Sticking with the PS2 theme. PS2 contra games. After the abysmal PS1 contra games. Konami went back to the drawing board and in my mind got it right. Shattered Soldier and Neo are really fun games. They are brutally difficult but oh so fun.Shattered is classic side scrolling Contra and Neo is a top down game. Neo has a playable Samurai and you can run on helicopter blades. Shattered has the 2nd player from NES contra as the villain!
I will probably post more later but I don't want this post to be 5000 games.
Last edited by Leynos - 1 day agoBite my shiny metal cockpit!
