Hey all, just thought I'd throw this thread out there. It seems to me that there are a LOT of japanese games out there that never come out in the US or UK, some really good ones that most people would never think to try, but some are real gems and definately worth hunting down and playing.
This isn't a console specific thread... any console, any era...
If you've played a Japanese game that was very good, for any system, that never made it outside of Japan, maybe is rare or just that you think no one ever bothered playing it but you think it it worth playing, please list it here! In particular, I'm interested in the quirky ones that are very Japanese in flavor, but they can be any type of game as long as it's a good one! Be sure to list what system the game was for, and if you feel so inclined, give a little info about the game or a rating or whatever.
Anyways, just a couple off the top of my head:
Sin and Punishment - N64 : one of the N64's best... was supposed to come to the US but got canned at the last minute! A great game by Treasure (makers of Gunstar Heroes, Guardian Heroes and Ikaruga). One of the best shooting/action games I have ever played... sorta similiar to Panzer Dragoon but far superior, IMO. Plays great on some of the N64 emulators on PC and Xbox!
Guru Logi Champ - GBA : AWESOME, very quirky Japanese puzzle game, easy to learn, with lots of levels and very cool animations to watch in between levels. One of the best GBA games that never left Japan, this one is permanently on my Flash Cart.
Crayon Shin Chan - GBA : A great Mario-style side scrolling platformer... you play a kid who can wear many different costumes each giving special abilities, like a frog suit (you can jump high and swing from the frogs tongue), Monkey suit (you can wall jump) and super hero suit (you can fire laser beams). Also, you can call on four members of the kids family (father, mother, baby, and dog) to use special abilities or attacks, to help get hidden or out of reach items, to help you jump higher, etc. It has about 10 levels each which has a theme based on a movie, they are all very different with totally different enemies in each. Well worth playing though there's a lot of story in this one that you wont get because it's in Japanese of course. There are lots of other Crayon Shin Chan games for other systems but none of them are near as good as the GBA one as far as I can tell.
Alien Soldier - Megadrive : Another Treasure game... side scrolling action shooter platformer... basically, a boss fight game, there are 'level's per se but they are very short with very easy enemies... the real meat of the game are the 20+ boss fights, some of the hardest bosses ever created, and graphically some of the most impressive on the Megadrive. This one release in the UK as well... this is now one of the Megadrive's most sought after, rare and valuable games... works near perfectly on DrMD!
Well that's all I can think of for now... please lets make a great list of games so mroe people can try these 'buried treasures' that normally no one would even think of playing or could never find if they wanted to!
This isn't a console specific thread... any console, any era...
If you've played a Japanese game that was very good, for any system, that never made it outside of Japan, maybe is rare or just that you think no one ever bothered playing it but you think it it worth playing, please list it here! In particular, I'm interested in the quirky ones that are very Japanese in flavor, but they can be any type of game as long as it's a good one! Be sure to list what system the game was for, and if you feel so inclined, give a little info about the game or a rating or whatever.
Anyways, just a couple off the top of my head:
Sin and Punishment - N64 : one of the N64's best... was supposed to come to the US but got canned at the last minute! A great game by Treasure (makers of Gunstar Heroes, Guardian Heroes and Ikaruga). One of the best shooting/action games I have ever played... sorta similiar to Panzer Dragoon but far superior, IMO. Plays great on some of the N64 emulators on PC and Xbox!
Guru Logi Champ - GBA : AWESOME, very quirky Japanese puzzle game, easy to learn, with lots of levels and very cool animations to watch in between levels. One of the best GBA games that never left Japan, this one is permanently on my Flash Cart.
Crayon Shin Chan - GBA : A great Mario-style side scrolling platformer... you play a kid who can wear many different costumes each giving special abilities, like a frog suit (you can jump high and swing from the frogs tongue), Monkey suit (you can wall jump) and super hero suit (you can fire laser beams). Also, you can call on four members of the kids family (father, mother, baby, and dog) to use special abilities or attacks, to help get hidden or out of reach items, to help you jump higher, etc. It has about 10 levels each which has a theme based on a movie, they are all very different with totally different enemies in each. Well worth playing though there's a lot of story in this one that you wont get because it's in Japanese of course. There are lots of other Crayon Shin Chan games for other systems but none of them are near as good as the GBA one as far as I can tell.
Alien Soldier - Megadrive : Another Treasure game... side scrolling action shooter platformer... basically, a boss fight game, there are 'level's per se but they are very short with very easy enemies... the real meat of the game are the 20+ boss fights, some of the hardest bosses ever created, and graphically some of the most impressive on the Megadrive. This one release in the UK as well... this is now one of the Megadrive's most sought after, rare and valuable games... works near perfectly on DrMD!
Well that's all I can think of for now... please lets make a great list of games so mroe people can try these 'buried treasures' that normally no one would even think of playing or could never find if they wanted to!
