If you love taking your time navigating through menus to choose skills and cast spells, you have to try Crimson Gem Saga. This relatively overlooked game is simple and fun. It looks beautiful thanks to some incredibly detailed sprites, lovely character portraits, and lush overworld environments that almost look hand-drawn. It was a very different game, and it lacked many features from the original titles that made StH feel a little dull. Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley can help you enjoy this classic farming simulator with a visual upgrade and many new features.
You can even marry the Harvest Goddess here — a massive improvement from the life of celibacy you had in the original PS2 version. And to this day it remains one of my favorite role-playing games in the history of gaming as a whole. This unique take on the genre features surprisingly out-of-the-box thinking.
Heaven series along with Yggdra Union. From the story to the items to some of the gameplay mechanics, everything is infused with wonderful and slightly dark humor. Darkdeath Evilman shines for the deep customization that plays a vital role in your performance in the game. A stable environment for your monsters will help them drive back invading heroes. But it is a great game.
If you like the Evangelion anime and always wanted to pilot an EVA unlike Shinji , this is the next best thing. Every morning, I challenge myself to get as much done around the kitchen in the 60 seconds it takes my tea water to warm up.
The quick and addictive gameplay makes Half-Minute Hero the perfect game for those errand-running days with a lot of off-time on public transportation or waiting rooms. The semi-open environments and near-endless options to get to the target make it as close to a Hitman and MGS hybrid as a game can get. Dishonored was developed by Arkane Studios released in The player is placed in the fictional city of Dunwall a Victorian London-inspired steampunk world that provides the sandbox for one of the most versatile stealth games ever made.
The game shares many of the same gameplay elements as Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the Thief series. However, what sets the series apart from other stealth games is the magic system.
Drawing from their experience with their RPG Arx Fatalis developers Arkane Studios has given the player a nearly endless amount of creative ways to implement stealth and get experimental with enemy takedowns. The Hitman series is one of the most intricately designed stealth games ever made. This is especially so in the most recent titles, as every level feels like its own game with so much replay value and new challenges unlocking after every completion.
Tackling these challenges undetected is like working out a complicated puzzle and is just as satisfying when achieved. Additionally, the series takes its players to some truly stunning and immersive locations such as Marrakesh in Morocco or Santa Fortuna in Columbia. In many ways, Hitman feels as close to being a James Bond game as it can get. The asylum itself is the perfect platform for Batman to take out his enemies one by one.
The Metroidvania style level design with its dark shadows, perches, air ducts, and Batman's endless gadgets create near-endless opportunities for the Dark Knight to strike fear into his enemies.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Splinter Cell: Blacklist offers the player an incredible amount of detail and options in their semi-open level design.
Stealth mechanics are present in tons of games today, but these 10 classic titles brought it to the forefront and forged a new genre. Gaming, wrestling and film fan for over 35 years. It's the sport you know and love, and Sony got it down to a tee when they released the ultra-accessible and fiendishly addictive Everybody's Golf for PSP.
This golf sim played to the handheld console's strengths, scoring a hole in one on the course called 'plug-and-play value' and racking up an eagle in the charm stakes with those enormous-headed, anime-inspired sprites. Lemmings met Donkey Konga in Pyramid's rhythm-based puzzler Patapon 3 , the third instalment in a series that was content to dance to its own tune.
Players guided a tribe of warriors by bashing out notes on a virtual drum, a novel idea that soared to a creative high in this threequel. Polished visuals, improved controls, and an all-new multiplayer mode made this the Keith Moon of drumming games.
This handheld prequel to PlayStation 2 smash Grand Theft Auto: Vice City did what the Rockstar series does best - allow players to live out their wildest criminal fantasies without being handed several life sentences. Vice City Stories pulled off the task of scaling down the GTA formula for more humble hardware in style, pushing the PSP to its graphical limits and building on the framework laid down by fellow criminal masterminds Liberty City Stories and San Andreas. Whether frolicking through the game's 23 unique levels or building your own to share with the community, LittleBigPlanet for PSP was proof that some of the greatest PlayStation experiences could be reimagined on the handheld's pint-sized screen.
Role-playing games were always one of the PSP's specialities, and you only need to look at how well PS2 hit Persona 3 translated to the system to see that in practice. If you really loved a PlayStation series in the mid-aughts, there was a good chance it had an entry on the PSP.
And there was an even better chance that it was pretty good. If handheld gaming is what you're eyeing, take a look at our list of the best Nintendo Switch games. See our Burnout Legends review. The first: It was really, really good! A unique puzzle game that takes cues from the mind-bending art of M.
This intriguing story casts players as Danny, a young man with insomnia so bad it lands him in an institution. At the hospital, a psychiatrist uses a machine to take Danny inside his own mind, like Psychonauts--if Raz stuck one of those little doors on the back of his own head.
A decade and a half after release, Crush remains a smart and challenging puzzler that manages to tell an engaging story between brain-breaking levels. See our Crush review. Developed by Ready at Dawn, the studio that would go on to create PS4 title The Order: , Daxter gave the wisecracking Naughty Dog sidekick his own game to run, jump, and flyswat his way through. See our Daxter review. A portable remake of one of the best tactics games of all time?
Yes, please. The studio was an undersung hero for Sony in this era, and Ghost of Sparta is proof that the developer had serious chops. While the controls occasionally frustrate, Ghost of Sparta mostly does a great job of translating the button-mashing combos of the console entries to the scaled-down control scheme of the PSP.
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