Japan Exclusive PS1 Game Recommendations
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PS1 has a lot of cool experimental games that they apparently thought were too strange for our American brains to handle.
Which is odd, given how bizarre our 90s game ads were....
Anyhow, many of them are cool concepts, but fairly mid-tier games (Oh No! being an example).
Ore no Ryori has been my favorite of the lot, even if it wrecks your hands to play.
Pop N Tanks is pretty cool, kinda like an anime Twisted Metal.
Gekisou Tomarunner is also a unique idea.
I would love to get a shot to play Little Ralph!
Which is odd, given how bizarre our 90s game ads were....
Anyhow, many of them are cool concepts, but fairly mid-tier games (Oh No! being an example).
Ore no Ryori has been my favorite of the lot, even if it wrecks your hands to play.
Pop N Tanks is pretty cool, kinda like an anime Twisted Metal.
Gekisou Tomarunner is also a unique idea.
I would love to get a shot to play Little Ralph!
It's not really a remake, just a port with some added features (I think).
I've not tried it out yet. Would imagine it's very similar to 4 though.
Punky Skunk but it's not JP exclusive
A snes prototype recently resurfaced and it was actually completed before being canned. It's very different:
Nothing from Black Matrix was ever fantranslated was it? I seem to remember one that got stuck at like 10% : /Finished Escaform a couple of weeks ago:
Played it because I like SRPGs and the character art is cool... That's mostly what I got. Super vanilla in terms of gameplay (outside of one mechanic where you're able to store unused action points as armour), but has an interesting world and vibe (which I can say about a ton of PS1 SRPGs tbh, like Volfoss). On the shorter side (under 20 hours for sure). Not even worth recommending really, but I dunno where I would have mentioned it if not in this thread. Bizarre FMVs when they crop up.
The Black/Matrix franchise is legitimately super good, and worth tracking down if you're a fan of SRPGS/SMT vibes. In terms of games with a fan-translation, Tear Ring Saga is from the creator of Fire Emblem and basically PS1 Fire Emblem (to the point where Nintendo sued and lost).
EDIT: I imagine a couple of Kill the Past fans would get a kick out of some of the character designs:
Not heard of this before, so I looked it up.
That's a nice ass cover for a game of that era.
Intelligent Qube had a JP only sequel, and there's countless quirky gems like Moon and Addie's Present, but this is my holy grail of unlocalized PS1 games:
The sequel to Rhapsody, about Marl's daughter.
Obligatory epic musical sequence at 1:28 -
The sequel to Rhapsody, about Marl's daughter.
Obligatory epic musical sequence at 1:28 -
Check out this guy on youtube
Thor High Heels
He's got a couple of "japan only ps1 games" that are really worth the watch, also he's funny and has a thing for y2k aesthetics, honestly love his channel
Thor High Heels
He's got a couple of "japan only ps1 games" that are really worth the watch, also he's funny and has a thing for y2k aesthetics, honestly love his channel
In general everyone should sub to Thor, he is the ultimate mad game mad lad . His epic take on the take on kojima and metal gear alone makes his channel GOAT.Have you tried Racing Lagoon?
Racing JRPG from Square, unfortunately no fantranslation.
I also second Boku No Natsuyasumi.Racing Lagoon – Hardcore Gaming 101
www.hardcoregaming101.net
You should also check out ThorHighHeels' yt channel, he has made several videos about Japan-exclusive PS1 games:
ThorHighHeels
Even the worst games can still have some cool stuff in them worth talking about. Not to mention the good ones. Video games. Please subscringe.www.youtube.com
And yeah he deserves his fan-tran of racing lagoon!
Btw, if you're looking at ps1 and PSP essentials I recommend playing the original persona trilogy of revelations (just persona on PSP) and innocent sin followed by eternal punishment. The English translation of punishment always to only be on psx so far.