Overlooked (or forgotten) Games

Doujin games aren't the easiest things to get a hold of. It's usually like some JP digital purchase website or something I can't read. If you have something more accessible to suggest, then by all means...I'm interested in those two Mega Man/Castlevania crossover games, Rosenkreuzstilette 1 and 2. I always have to Google how to spell that, lol. Anything like that would be great, too. If there's an English way to actually buy those games, I might be in. I -might- be tempted to download them off of xyz random free place and patch it, but ehh.

Underappreciated games? Depending on who you ask, that could be almost anything. PS1 games just crossed my mind, so here are a few good ones I don't usually see anyone talk about:

Vandal Hearts, Azure Dreams, Front Mission 3...I'll go ahead and say Valkyrie Profile as well just because lol. WHY DID THEY STOP MAKING THEM AHHHHHHHHH

...Thunderforce V, SaGa Frontier (it's actually weird how I never see these mentioned on the internet), and...Grandia? At the time of its release, there were rumblings of Grandia being a rival to FF7. Of course, the same was said of a random PC game called Septerra Core that I played, too, which definitely was no such thing.

One of my favorite retro games on the NES was Faxanadu.  Most people don't even remember it, but realistically it was fairly important as a Metroivania game that had aspects of SOTN (leveling, armor, weapons, etc), like an unrefined precursor.  

My biggest beef was the "mantra" codes that it had in place instead of saving.  It was difficult, having similar issues to the original NES Castlevania.  You had to buy engagement rings for your jump arcs, sometimes enemies that didn't hit you registered a hit, sometimes you would literally see your weapon intersect into the enemy sprite and it still didn't register.  You couldn't travel between areas via portal or whatever, so going anywhere was a trek.


Those problems aside, it was a great game.  Stage design was great, the palette broad enough (but could have used more color diversity), the story was "meh", and the music was... Well, it was memorable in the same way Torgo's is in the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate.  I'm having trouble accurately describing the game at the moment, and I might come back to it later so I can be more descriptive.  I really suggest you give it a go.  HOWEVER you need to be able to set your expectations back about 25 years in terms of what you're used to.  While it's a great game, it'll always pale in comparison to SOTN or POR.  But for an NES game?  Not bad.

I hate singling games out, that's why Id idn't suggest one...and frankly I doubt anyone will actually get up and play it anyway. I mean I couldn't even get people interested in that free game thread for goodness sake! How am I to expect someone will actually import a doujin game or register on melonbooks ors omething to buy it and then apply a translation patch or whatnot. Though I suppose someone may just find a download or something.

There's a game I personally like more slightly but many noobs blame the game for requiring a big grind every floor when fact is they are just playing bad, you don't need to grind until the very end for the final boss.

So I'll suggest another game that people have a hard time with but don't blame requiring a grind because fact is the game doesn't actually give you much when you level =P. Genius of Sappheiros, It's supposedly like romancing saga, but I haven't played any of the saga games that weren't on a gameboy, and those don't seem very similar to me eh. I probably SHOULD play them at some point though. Just a bit of advice though, many bosses are quite difficult, and generally require you to find a strategy that counters them effectively. But just going into them with a generic build (you can change your character's builds without going to a town or reloading a save or anything) gets most people whooped really hard really fast on bosses.

Also, the final boss pre-expansion is a monster. Truly the biggest sense of accomplishment I've felt beating a boss since I was a little kid. I was suck on that @%@#% for longer than like the 10th to 3rd hardest bosses ever for me =P... 2nd being Arsenal in Final Fantasy Legends 2 (saga game I know but I don't know the # in the saga series). Easy if you play with gamefaqs and have the 7sword and whatnot, but I was a kid without a guide, and never got the 7 sword or other forms of ultimate gear, and I didn't know how to get a good monster, I just tried feeding it often and would always end up with crap lol.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention Faxanadu.. are you aware that Xseed seems to have indication that they are going to localize Xanadu Next soonish...and if you can't wait there's actually a fan translation patch. It's a sequel to Faxanadu, though it's not a side scroller anymore.. it's more like...uhh. It's kinda sorta like Ys but slower with more rpg elements like equipment customization and consumeable use and inventory management and whatnot.

I think I also heard that Falcom is making another Sequel to that game... Also that screenshot lies.. Everything in that game is brown, dark brown, light brown, peach, or tan coloured... EVERYTHING! =P

yeah overlooked is an odd expression for sure. I interpreted it as not over-rated/under-rated like is such a common topic in gaming, but less accusatory towards each consumer, and more of a matter of circumstance as to why it's not given the appreciation we feel it deserves.

Yes, I loved Goemon and I wish they continued it... sadly the IP belongs to Konami and I doubt we will see any more of him (really sad face)

Ys HAS a remake of 4.. it's called memories of Celceita.. or something.. spelling off. It's damn good too btw..

Of course most people dont' care cuz they have this religious hatred to the vita and refuse to acknowledge that it has good games.

It needs a remake of 5 though.

Oh yeah, they kinda remade 6 too.. 
store.steampowered.com/app/312540/

I say kinda because it offers very little over the basic ps2 version (which I own btw, good game but the voice acting is horrible... I wonder if it's better in the steam version).

Demon gaze is good. But if you like it you should like dungeon travellers 2 as well... Ive played the demo only (waiting for a sale cuz sale season is soon), but its better in nearly every way so far... Except no fran.

Your list isnt that small though. I think its worth getting a vita if you can get one for cheap. I got mine for 120 canadian only, you should be able to do similar this holiday sale season.

Also... Vita games seem to have massive discounts from what ive seen. Like 75% off many of the titles you mentioned at times.

I keep forgetting about the pstv thing. I'm not sure which of those games are compatible or not, but yeah, I wish I knew about it because 40 bucks is an even better deal!