Post em
Starting off with 7 Blades, a cheesy 3D beat-em-up with so many enemies it feels like early DW at times
>mecha dragon
>ninjas popping out your shadow
>swatting groups away with a fuck massive sword
This is just like my japanese animes
![51EDGDJR4BL._SX425_[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vamv1Jy.jpg "51EDGDJR4BL._SX425_[1].jpg")
Blood Will Tell.
You're a part samurai part clockwork robot with swords for hands and a cannon in your knee who has to kill demons to get back the body parts they stole from you. It's based of a Japanese manga.
>>342748381
Read the manga, shit was weird. Was neat that you start the game all monochrome aand shit and get more visuals as you get bodyparts
Evergrace, a game mostly known for its batshit ost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsGaJ39dfs
From what I can remember, you're a bipedal wolf with long ass hair and armor running around a battlefield killing thousands of giant insects and demons with various weapons.
A shame I never got around to finishing it.
>>342748940
Isn't that the game with a gorillion enemies on screen?
The only 3D Castlevania that I like.
>>342748871
That game and it's sequel are bad games. It's surprising how FROM went from such crappy games to the Soulsbornes.
Also, the music in Forever Kingdom is equally weird. When I first heard this track, I thought my PS2 was screwing up and playing multiple tracks at once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LINB9BJN8Wc
>>342749062
Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44KZ0neSz7E
>>342749258
The music certainly helps, though I liked LoI too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElT0PpvBno4
![151107-Obscure_-_The_Aftermath_(USA)_(En,Fr,Es)-1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cirqk2o.jpg "151107-Obscure_-_The_Aftermath_(USA)_(En,Fr,Es)-1[1].jpg")
>>342747885
>>342749258
>obscure
it's damn good though
item stealan
monster raisan
equipment craftan
backtrackan
so much backtrackan
awesome ost though so backtrackan isn't too bad
>>342750138
WHat u speak of son?
did u even play the game?
>>342749782
That got me nostalgic, I have big hopes for bloodstained.
>>342749315
You're a fucking retard.
>>342750471
Elaborate.
>>342749315
>bad game
Have to agree, got around to playing it the other day and it's such a slog. Especially starting as the lass since her first free weapon is in the next level.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LINB9BJN8Wc
This I actually like, sounds like something off an Armored Core game
>>342750652
Kings Field, Armored Core, Chrome Hounds, Tenchu.
You don't know anything about From software, you're just a souls fan boy.
>>342750853
>>342750652
Oh yeah and a little gem called Otogi.
Souls fans are cancer.
>>342750853
This desu, King's Field was great for its time played it a few years ago and really enjoyed it as dated as it was. Only big box PS1 game I have. Armored Core is also fucking awesome.
>>342750329
yes? all of the t hings i mentioned were in the game, and t he game really isn't obscure
>>342750853
>Tenchu Z
>good
Perhaps you are the biggest faggot of all, anon
>>342750853
True, I have played very few FROM games. The only others are Kings Field (US) and Tenchu 3. King's Feild was tedious but Tenchu was pretty fun.
Plays like a full game of Drakengard's aerial levels, just with all kinds of creatures to ride instead of only dragons.
>>342748871
>Evergrace
>obscure
Oh this meme again for the 5,000,000th time Evergrace has been posted.
Strong contender for all time #1 special snowflake game.
>>342749889
Har har anon
>>342751113
>Tenchu Z
>One game
Maybe you should quit being a little faggot.
I know you've never played any of the others. Fuck I know you probably haven't played any Tenchu game.
They also didn't touch Tenchu Z dumb fuck.
I know you're a faggot because the only Tenchu they made was a shitty xbox live arcade version.
Confirmed retard.
![250px-Gregory_Horror_Show_Coverart[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/1nL22z9.png "250px-Gregory_Horror_Show_Coverart[1].png")
You run around a hotel spying on guests and try to figure out how to steal their souls. Based on an anime. Japan and Europe only.
>>342751768
It's not an obscure game because no one knows what it is.
It's obscure because it's hard to get a physical copy.
>>342749782
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44KZ0neSz7E
That looks so much better in motion than it does in screenshots
Trapt, kind of 3D tower defense with survival horror, you play as a qt princess unjustly accused of a crime and must dispach your pursuers using traps scattered around the map.
Fun fact, the game gives a backstory for every signgle enemy, for example one of the guys had just proposed to his fiance and when you kill him, he call for her.
>>342751096
I used to play it with my gf,it was a horror game where we cooped to survive and do some shit to trigger next playable characters or lvl.
>>342751361
>full game of Drakengard's aerial levels
who would ever want that
>>342752068
I think all the Deception games do that. I know 4 did, at least.
>>342752310
its one of the first games of that series anon
renamed for the west
>>342752224
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Mm-LLnWNU
>>342752224
Castlevania Curse of Darkness is a horror game?
Playable characters?
What?
You play as Hector who can equip a multitude of weapons, which have different movesets similar to the Dynasty Warriors games (square to do a basic attack, triangle to do a finisher).
You have familiars which level up and evolve according to which weapon you're using, with different final forms depending on which evolutions you went along with.
You can do stuff like dodge roll and somersaults, and you can steal items from enemies.
You can use said items (as well as item drops from killing items) to craft new equipment.
There's a lot of backtracking as you gain new abilities or new items that let you explore different places.
>>342749315
It's like someone took a song and layered random loops from LSD onto it
>>342751839
Meh. There are quite a few copies on ebay. I got my PAL copy for about $35. Fuck getting a Japanese copy. They're all over $100 and in Moonspeak.
[eurobeat intensifies]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NckeYk5GC0
>>342752425
I know it's in that series. That is why I mentioned it.
>>342750850
>This I actually like, sounds like something off an Armored Core game
The guy who did the music for Evergrace/FK also did music for Armored Core 4/FA and V/VD, he's on FromSofts music team "FreQuency" as well.
Speaking of obscure fromsoftware games, Kuon is a nice little horror title for the ps2. Nothing too special but worth playing if you're into japanese horror at all. Emulates great.
>>342753276
>Hoshino states that he cannot read music
Makes you wonder how he got there
>>342747885
Great stuff, anyone play any of these.
I had a HELL of a time hunting them down back when each came out. (not so much with Eternal poison, since I ordered that by mail back then )
VEHICULAR COMBAT LEAGUE
>>342753815
>metal saga
>those abrupt endings where the game calls you a boring fag who settled down instead of going on advntures
>>342753815
Tsugunai, I thoroughly enjoyed. It's sort of a medieval fantasy version of Quantum Leap. Some dude tries to steal an ancient artifact and pisses off a god. The god then separates the dude's soul from his body. He has to go around possessing people and help them out. After he helps out enough people, he can return to his body.
![Red_Ninja_box_art[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NpGXXVj.jpg "Red_Ninja_box_art[1].jpg")
Great cover. Terrible game
>>342754389
I always heard that it was pretty good.
>>342754642
You hear wrong friend
t. someone who owns it
>>342751701
I'll be honest. Only games I played was 1, 2 and Z.
Played the shit out of 1, kinda liked 2, but I hated Z. I always thought Z was a From game?
Also, calm down dude. They's just videogames.
![max1137177680-frontback-cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ogREAFi.jpg "max1137177680-frontback-cover[1].jpg")
don't believe the critics on this one. they're all butthurt, that it isn't Devil May Cry
>>342753815
>Metal Saga
I'll finally be starting that tonight, game's been on my backlog for literal years
>>342754389
Never understood complaints about this cover, is it a meem?
>>342755086
People complain about it?
>>342755025
I always wanted to play this one, a friend had it but never let me borrow or even play it when I was over, then he sold it to gamestop.
>>342755465
>a friend had it but never let me borrow or even play it when I was over
Actually held back laughter. Why not?
>>342753554
Kuon was by FROM? I played it years ago and found it weird. Great atmosphere, but too easy and the story was meh.
>>342755025
yoooo I played this at a friend's house, it was a rad as shit, been trying to figure out what it was for over a decade
>>342755465
What? Did he show you the case or the disk? Maybe he said he had it but was lying.
>>342755025
Great monster designs and music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NMrpfH-CU
![75712-vollbild[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5aWfwTL.jpg "75712-vollbild[1].jpg")
>>342755465
the pc version runs mostly fine. it does have texture-glitches and the occasional crash, which can get very frustrating
should work fine on an emulator, though
>>342749782
ONE MIRRION TWOOPS
>>342756160
Ah, the gun cutie. Wanted to like her, but I found her too weak.
>>342756420
again,
>obscure
Remember that rpg launch title with the summons? It got a sequel with a transforming mc
>>342756557
It was obscure.
>>342750853
I thought chrome hounds was Sega?
I could have sworn I had the Orphen game but I can't for the life of me remember ever playing it.
>>342756557
/v/ gives a warped view of what's obscure or not, few people you meet in real life will know most of this thread
>>342747885
The fact that you could play as enemies and bosses was great beside some levels being impossible to finish because some of them could not jump
Anyone play Samurai Western? Game was pretty fun, damn hard though.
The Sword Of Etheria
Its a repetative beat em up in which you juggle enemies and make them into your personal ping pong balls.You have two color coded ai partners with whom you juggle them.The game has a nice anime presentation and ok music .However it kinda drags on because you dont have many moves or abilities .It also borrows the names and themes from wizard of OZ for some reason .6/10 game
>>342756852
It is annoying how people do that, thinking because /v/ knows about all these obscure games or gems, that they are somehow NOT obscure.
I gotta ask does anyone remember a PS2 first person game where you had to craft rings that gave you magic like wind and dark. I barely remember it but i can't for the life of me think of its name.
![Ring_of_Red_art_box[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PkUBVSP.jpg "Ring_of_Red_art_box[1].jpg")
RoR had a pretty innovative battle system, but execution was mediocre.
>>342757381
If it weren't for the fact that said first-person, I'd have thought maybe you meant this, since you collect elemental rings. One of which is DARKNESS.
>>342756835
Was just about to post this myself
>can't for the life of me remember ever playing it.
I recall it was cryptic as fuck at times, got stuck a few levels in for ages. Combat was weird too, somewhere between a qte and atb jrpg.
You play as an alien and do sick pranks on people. You also have to duel another alien to see who can prank the humans better.
![Stuntman[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/erHc8qZ.jpg "Stuntman[1].jpg")
Criminally underrated.
>>342757381
Think I've got you
>>342757650
Nahh i'm a retard used google with a few terms and found it.
>>342757774
Thanks, was a funky game.
![41GAXXYV58L[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lus6xGQ.jpg "41GAXXYV58L[1].jpg")
This and Psy-Ops.
Yea, it did get a PSP port, that was promptly forgotten as fast as it was made.
>>342747885
Fun as hell, sunk well over 100 hours into it during high school.
>>342757496
I've been looking for a copy for ever. I guess I should just ebay it.
>>342749315
>It's surprising how FROM went from such crappy games to the Soulsbornes.
Every game in the King's Field series is better than even the best Soulsborne game.
>>342758179
They're all good, though the Souls games are better for the fact that they're much faster.
>>342756852
I guess you're right.
I simply cannot tell what's genuinely obscure and what's only obscure by /v/'s standards.
All Platinum memers should play this
>>342758593
nigga it has already been posted OZ is the nip name
>>342757040
Pretty much Soul Eater without the Nightmare Before Christmas look or any of the waifus.
>>342759101
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
>>342756989
yeah nigga. It was from the same guys that did way of the samurai games wasn't it?
>>342758593
My fucking nigga
Music by Michiru Yamane
>>342759101
That doesn't even make any sense. It's the thumb that gets superimposed, not the entire image posted at the same time. Whatever.
This and Way of the Samurai are essential weeb-core
>>342759525
>tfw it happened to me with the final image of the exodia combo
Got a ban for that too
>>342759851
How does that even make sense? They have to have seen that your IP wasn't the one that posted that image.
>>342759951
>/v/ moderation
That is how.
>>342760078
They can't all be dumb niggers like that.
Beat up people with karate in Japan and California following the plot of the movie. The endgame was cancer difficulty and the random stealth missions killed the flow of gameplay.
>>342760494
This game was hardly obscure, i saw hundreds of copies all the time
The PS2 had so many great off the wall games. It's a shame developers are too afraid to try anything new these days.
>>342760494
>the movie
I'm not 100% but I don't think that was a movie-tie in. Similar to a lot of his movies though.
Tragically overshadowed by God of War
>>342761374
People remember the amount of shovelware in the PS2 library but there really are a lot of gems too. Early 2000s were probably the vidya golden age, every platform benefited
>>342757928
Always wished more third person games did scopes like this.
>>342755025
>Savage by nature.
>>342747885
More like obscure weebshit games
>>342751839
I got my copy for like £5 from HMV a few years back.
>>342755574
I really didn't know, I took care of games. Hell I'd even buy you a brand new copy (or even a special edition) the same week If I somehow messed yours up.
>>342756003
maybe I never saw the disk, it was the same for a lot of his games.
>>342756160
thanks I'll look for it.
>>342756653
>with a transforming mc
I avoided it for just this reason, even though I loved the first game like a madman.
My young mind could not get over the fact that Shape-shifting was not Summoning, thus changing everything for me. I was so weird about it.
anyway how did you enjoy it? was it like the first one?
>>342750853
>Tenchu 2
ohhh fuck I loved that game so much, and then it it got stolen from my house.
>>342754963
>They's just videogames.
GET THE FUCK OUT!
![Lifeline_Coverart[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Ne4lU4M.png "Lifeline_Coverart[1].png")
Probably not too obscure, I just doubt no one around here has actually played it besides me.
Not really that obscure but the original Way of the Samurai is severely underrated.
>>342750853
From never worked on Tenchu and the only one they published was shit.
>>342766342
Combat was more fluid from what I remember, like an action game. None of that staying in place and chaining attacks
Can't recall much aside from that, I know you get an airship but have no clue how or even if it affects the overworld
Not really obscure, but I don't see many people that talk about it often.
>>342767265
>Every WotS game is at the end of their era when they get westernized
I'll never understand it, don't think I've ever played a samurai game that doens't end up doing this shit. Same with Westerns for that matter, rather than focus on the era proper they always get romantic about its end.
No love for Bujingai?
>>342767265
I can't help switching sides in every job I'm given in that game, the potential to be a dick is just too strong
Also
>afro black guy weeaboo
>his sword style is just breakdancing
Perfect timing on a PS2 thread.
I was collecting PS2 Isos to stick on a 1tb HDD for use with PCSX2.
Obscure but interesting games are just the sort of thing I want to try.
Don't have to be good games, just ones that did stuff a little different.
I'll throw one in myself:
R.A.D
>>342757667
>>342757965
There are two I was going to post too.
I bought Orphan because it was "anime: the game" and it was that time of my life.
Shadow of Memories was... fucking weird.
Anyway, here, have another!
Project Eden was a squad based shooter that let you switch between 4 characters, I remember it taking place in the under city of a utopia. That is, the city that the utopia was built over.
>>342768424
Kessen, I rarely see that mentioned anywhere. Can personally vouch for Kessen II but I imagine the whole series is worth playing.
>>342768952
II has some of the best RoTK character designs of all time
>that Meng Huo
Underrated af
>>342768952
>all those Chinese names
Is there at least a Long Dong or a Hung Lo?
>>342756798
Published by Sega.
>>342769536
There's a Dong Tuna in DW
>>342755025
>played it at my friend's house
>couldn't beat the first level
It was difficult.
>>342769773
Fucking really? That's great.
Not obscure but rather uncommon in my state. No gamestop within 100 miles had it at least.
Good beats.
>>342770149
No Gamestop anywhere has that game. They don't sell PS2 games.
>>342751701
what's wrong with Tenchu Z? I have it and think it's prettyfun
Best RPG series on the system
>>342756420
>>342756557
Bumpytrot is obscure outside of /v/
>>342768424
Not that obscure but both Siren games are a must if you are seeking a different experience.
Boss battles are the best part of the game Every regular enemy had one animation.
>>342755064
Just remember peaceful lives are for fags
>>342770031
probably played on normal
though even on easy the later levels get really fucking hard. i still haven't beaten the final boss
>>342750853
You just fucking wrecked someone today, man
This was my jam
>>342748871
Isn't that the game where if you pick the girl you can use a frying pan?
That ninja game where your health drains all the time and it's sequel were good and balls hard
>>342756315
WOW
>>342771947
MAH NIGGA
>>342772929
shinobi?
>>342772146
I think both characters can use the frying pan.
>>342772146
Yeah, and the guy starts beside a sword while the girl starts beside a pot she can wear as a helmet
>>342773624
Yeah that one
>>342773695
>girl starts beside a pot she can wear as a helmet
10/10
Now this is how you do gender bonuses.
>>342773795
those fucking ninja dogs
>>342749315
Sounds like beefheart
>>342758593
For the longest time I thought this was just a DDR track.
contributing GrimGrimoire (2D RTS by Vanilliaware). Atleast it was obscure to me, didn't find out about it until 2 years ago.
>>342767825
That's because it dissolves into lusting about the loli.
>>342774202
Hey thanks
I am thirsty for Vanillaware games
>>342775261
Surprised that image wasn't posted as a response
>>342750951
Otogi is the one reason I really hope OG xbox emulation happens.
Played the hell out of both games until my xbox died.
>>342753815
Dual hearts was my thing when i was a kid. I have 2 copies and I must replay it!!
>>342756420
This game is a real gem got it from my grandfather who didn't even play games. When I looked over at the reviews I thought it would be craptastic, but holy shit was it fun. Also that dark and depressing ending and year after playable epilogue was just heart wrenching to see how everything went to shit.
>>342753554
>>342755731
Same for echo night/echo night beyond
>>342754389
It's bad, I have it. The camera and controls are a cluster fuck! She is hot though.
>>342777346
>All those autist responses and dress up
Shame we'll probably never see a game like that again
>>342774202
That game was neat, but too easy to exploit. Just spam dragons with a couple of phantoms to take out any grimalkins.
>>342750853
>le fromsoft made Tenchu meme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FromSoftware_video_games
>>342769497
Dat riot shield and taser. Really fun game.
>open with 7 Blades because I'm emulating it right now
>fight some statue guardian dogs as a boss
>then the original ornstein and smough right after
>PCXS2 crashes and the autosave is before the first fight
There's no need
>>342757496
Saw this for 35 bucks, I wonder if I should pick it up.
