What hidden gems or obscure games do you goys like? I've recently been playing through Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman for an analysis that I've been working on and I can barely find any information on the development of this game, or even the developer UEP Systems. They've been out of business for like 15 years now, but there's almost nothing out on the web about them. I may have located the Director of UEP, and hopefully he responds. Rising Zan is pretty fun though. Compared to Devil May Cry, it definitely feels very underdeveloped, but I'm wondering if a lot of that has to do with the hardware it was running on, and I definitely feel that an analog stick would have made the game much more playable. Despite that, it has a nice chunk of content and it's somewhat challenging. Fuck those all-button segments though.
Anyways, good obscure games, what do you fuggers like?
I wish I had known about this game when it was new
Jacob Stewart
Huh, interesting. I'll have to look into this one.
Angel Edwards
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Matthew Nelson
I found this at a used media store and really enjoyed it. I liked that you could play as Sapphire too. The badge system pisses me off though, since applies to me too. Really cucks your mission score.
Here's 2: Abandoned online game where you use URLs made by the program and uploaded on websites to generate monsters. Nobody to connect with for trading or combat, but plenty of weird mechanics to master and bosses to fight. All documentation about it and most of the monsters come from archived angelfire sites. Play it on a windows XP virtual machine for an error-free experience. Basically a form of digital archeology. I tried to revive it here, but interest was low because of technical issues. I made a little guide and stuff: dongwiener.angelfire.com/guide.html
MMO with an extremely small, largely European community where the very best gear in the game comes from crafting stuff out of plant and animal materials (no metal). Interesting monster designs and a universe that deviates from Tolkein crap. No classes, your character can potentially level all skills, but gear determines role. Currently free up to skill level 125 out of 250 (I think). Requires a LOT of teamwork, so I'm planning on pitching this game in a thread soon.
I've been on the hunt for hidden Famicom gems as of recent. Embed related, it's an impressive looking Space Harrier clone. Aside from this, I also quite liked Nazo No Murasamejou, which is basically Zelda as a twitch action arcade game. It even has a parry mechanic. It's a real shame it was never released for the states until recently, and even then, I can't find any development notes about it, which would be nice. Nintendo, outside of the Iwata Asks and the olden Nintendo Power Players Guides, does not seem to like detailing behind the scenes stuff.
Adrian Martinez
this thread deserves a bump
Alexander Barnes
Seen that and a PS3 game that I assume is in the same series around cheap where I live. How are they?
