Games you like/hate that other people don't know about

I feel a sense of obscure loss whenever I find something that's good and isn't a children's game, but that was made exclusively for the Nintendo DS or the Game Boy. I don't know how things go in Japan, but in America, almost everything on one of those consoles that isn't marketed towards prepubescents is either a portable version of a popular franchise for another console, or a Japanese import. Since even the imports tend to be sickeningly cute, the more mature games tend to get lost in the shuffle. The signature example here is Valkyrie Profile Covenant Of The Plume, which I will swear up and down is better than Chrono Trigger, but even lesser efforts like the maddening but compelling RPG The World Ends With You or the Survival Horror / Adventure combo Theresia often deserve more attention than they're likely to get. (Fortunately / unfortunately, I bought a DS because I needed something portable and the sales clerk didn't tell me most of the mature games were for the PSP. Finding these games has been a bit like owning a Wii and hearing about Epic Mickey.)

Edit: While we're at it, I'll also mention Spiderweb Software and their many games. They have a staff of three people, so they're consistently ten years behind everyone else in terms of their game engines, but they do pretty well with what they have.

edited 25th Mar '10 3:12:46 PM by feotakahari

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

Most stuff by Cactusquid. Mondo Medicals, Mondo Agency, Clean Asia, etc.

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I find it amusing how the thread includes "hate" in the title and people have only been talking about games they like, but I guess it'd be dumb to be like "Here's a game no one's heard about AND I'M GLAD BECAUSE I HATE IT SO MUCH"

WHO IS THIS LOSER

MUDDY FREAKING MOLE.

Seriously, it needs to be revived right now. It work perfectly on the DS.

(And so can you!)

Well, the same as in the other thread, Baroque. Also, Steambot Chronicles.

I actually had that game, at one point. I agree, it fell short of what it could have been, but was still a fun game.

All your safe space are belong to Trump

Princess Crown. Never going to get released outside of Japan.

Ring of Red. I'm pretty sure the tail end of WWII/the start of the Korean War would have been awesome if they fought it out with giant robots.

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!

Two Crude Dudes, of the few people that know of it, most just do so because it's the sequel to Bad Dudes. But it's a genuinely good Beat 'em Up of it's time. You could grab and throw everything, enemies, traffic signs, light posts.

It was awesome.

The graphics are classic Data East mediocrity, though.

Speaking of Data East, Wolf Fang is cool. It's an auto-scrolling run & gun where you can customize your character.

Phantom Crash.

Miijhal is the only other person I've met that has heard of it.

Most of the games by Genki seem to go under the radar. :<

Frogger for the PSX  ^*

. I had the PC version back in the day, and I loved it... the sequel  ^*

^{Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge}

as well, but the first always had some sort of charm to it. This, despite the fact that I never actually finished it...

edited 25th Mar '10 9:25:29 PM by Blueeyedrat

Hey, I had the PSX version too. That was fun. I didn't finish either.

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Speaking of Data East, Joe And Mac Caveman Ninja

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Speaking of RPG Maker games, Legion Saga deserves mention.

Oh and seconding Rise Of Legends (you know you like a game enough when you're disappointed there's no page for it yet... and you made one)

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

Vigilante 8. Fun game. Only one sequel...

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.

Up next: "Games you don't know about that other people don't know about."

I played the Frogger 3D demo on PC. It was hard but fun.

My choice: Math Rescue and Word Rescue, edu-platformers from the makers of Duke Nukem.

She's playing with fire! He's not ready for Nibbly Pig!

Inorite? It had some pretty sweet music, too. Sample "Airshow Antics". (GAH never beat that level) I don't think it matches I Wanna Be The Guy (which it's compared to on the Nintendo Hard page for whatever reason), but it's still rather tough. Of course, I never got past "Boulder Alley" (and what's worse— apparently there's a "Big Boulder Alley" later on, which is considered the hardest level in the game). It's chock full of Scrappy Levels ("Uncanny Crusher", "Mower Mania", etc). And yet, I still loved it...

I've gushed long enough, let's move on.

edited 25th Mar '10 10:01:52 PM by Blueeyedrat

Anyone remember Tetrisphere?

edited 25th Mar '10 9:55:38 PM by Miijhal

Do you know any people who have heard of Red Alert: A Path Beyond? Or Mid-East Crisis 2? Or Zombie Panic! Source?

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

Dammit. Stop talking about Frogger. I have the PSX game right here...and now I want to play it...but...ARGH!

edited 25th Mar '10 9:57:43 PM by newtonthenewt

She's playing with fire! He's not ready for Nibbly Pig!

^^ You still have it? Lucky bastard. Give in... go now...

By the way, I always liked the Laboratory theme from Swampy's Revenge.

edited 25th Mar '10 10:00:51 PM by Blueeyedrat

Oh yes, the game which had that crazy plot twist involving Swampy attempting to make his own game. I don't regard it as particularly special, but it was rental-level amusement.