Obscure games you wish more people played

[NoDanico]

Azure dreams

Spoiler! :

My older brother rented this game then blew it off for being 'too difficult' so I played it just to spite him, fell in love and racked up a 40$ late charge. I WANT A PSN RELEASE.

Parasite Eve

Spoiler! :

This game along with metal gear is the reason I am a Chemistry major. They made science click in the seventh grade. genome? mitochondria? Oh yes Ms. Wilson I know what those are.

And I am ashamed to admit it but I still have my friends copy of Legend of Dragoon from High school and it is to this day unbeaten. I have character saves on my old memory cards and ps3 hard drive but...

[Seven Rain]

I loved Azure Dreams sooooo much. There were so many amazing things that game did and such awesome style. I've always wished they would've made a sequel with all the same features and a new cast. The town building, the monster raising, the tower crawling, the dating sim, it was all so damn fun. I don't remember much about the soundtrack but I remember loving the hell out of it too.
Hell, looking back at some of the artwork Koh's design doesn't even bug me as much as I thought it did for a while.

I'd kill for a PSN release.

[Mr Aids]

Parasite Eve

Spoiler! :

This game along with metal gear is the reason I am a Chemistry major. They made science click in the seventh grade. genome? mitochondria? Oh yes Ms. Wilson I know what those are.

Yeah! I actually enjoyed learning all that stuff, that's one example of a game that makes education fun. I've only been able to play the second one but I hope to be able to play the first soon.

[Mr. Henry]

Treasure of the Rudrahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra_no_Hih%C5%8D
If anyone can find a rom for it. It's a pretty good game.

[NoDanico]

Treasure of the Rudrahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra_no_Hih%C5%8D
If anyone can find a rom for it. It's a pretty good game.

Gonna try that, seems like a cool magic system.

[Seven Rain]

Treasure of the Rudrahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra_no_Hih%C5%8D
If anyone can find a rom for it. It's a pretty good game.

I'm up for trying any SNES JRPG I haven't already, especially one by Square, but if I can't find a fantrans then no dice. :C
Also still gotta get caught up on RPGs before I delve into too many more.

[rawredy]

Treasure of the Rudrahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra_no_Hih%C5%8D
If anyone can find a rom for it. It's a pretty good game.

I'm up for trying any SNES JRPG I haven't already, especially one by Square, but if I can't find a fantrans then no dice. :C
Also still gotta get caught up on RPGs before I delve into too many more.

There is a fan translation available. I'd link to it, but I don't want to potentially get in trouble for linking to it. (The wikipedia actually does have a link to it.)

[Seven Rain]

Oh that's fine, I won't have any trouble finding it on my own if it exists, haha.

[Crystalbear]

Azure dreams

Spoiler! :

Oh, I've played Azure Dreams for the GBC. It was a cute little thing, but sadly I'm not too fond of Mystery Dungeon-type gameplay. I never did get that far in it.

Oh oh, did anyone mention the Monster Rancher series by now?

[NoDanico]

I remember when I got monster rancher for the first time. I gathered every CD in the house and made monsters with them. Such a wonderful game play feature.

They should make a new monster rancher that would read the files off of your hard drive or maybe certain codes from websites to construct monsters.
Every porn mp4 I have should make a pixie..

[attlebridge]

A little turn-of-the-century (1999-2000) game series I adored was a sub-series of the MegaTen franchise called "Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children." While it was an attempt to make a "kid-friendly" version of MegaTen, it failed in the sense that the story was pretty dark and heavy. As in... apocalypse, hell, and death. The two-game set was for GBC, and then later got bundled together in a PSX fully-voiced re-release.

Why it was AWESOME: (may contain spoilers, but in a game with a decade already on it... who really cares)
- entire towns filled with Jack Frosts and adorable remixes of MegaTen demons.
- to collect "Demons" you converse/bribe/threaten them into making contracts with you.
- YOU SUMMON DEMONS BY SHOOTING A GUN. This concept was later recycled into the evokers in Persona 3.
- you go through the levels of Hell, defeating overlords and BECOME AN OVERLORD OF HELL.
- Multiple endings with the options to 1) blow up the world and complete the apocalypse, 2) save the world, 3) BECOME A GOD.
- The Player Characters (Setsuna and Mirai) are Lucifer's half-human children. As in legit children, bound by blood.
- Crossover references to Persona 1&2 (released around the same time), thus making Lucifer's angsty, powerful, overlord children who can travel between Earth and Hell canon in the Persona universe. :O

It was just a really fun game with cute characters and great music. Still my favorite ATLUS game to this day, and all the friends I've lent/showed it to have loved it as well.

[Mr. Henry]

A little turn-of-the-century (1999-2000) game series I adored was a sub-series of the MegaTen franchise called "Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children." While it was an attempt to make a "kid-friendly" version of MegaTen, it failed in the sense that the story was pretty dark and heavy. As in... apocalypse, hell, and death. The two-game set was for GBC, and then later got bundled together in a PSX fully-voiced re-release.

Why it was AWESOME: (may contain spoilers, but in a game with a decade already on it... who really cares)
- entire towns filled with Jack Frosts and adorable remixes of MegaTen demons.
- to collect "Demons" you converse/bribe/threaten them into making contracts with you.
- YOU SUMMON DEMONS BY SHOOTING A GUN. This concept was later recycled into the evokers in Persona 3.
- you go through the levels of Hell, defeating overlords and BECOME AN OVERLORD OF HELL.
- Multiple endings with the options to 1) blow up the world and complete the apocalypse, 2) save the world, 3) BECOME A GOD.
- The Player Characters (Setsuna and Mirai) are Lucifer's half-human children. As in legit children, bound by blood.
- Crossover references to Persona 1&2 (released around the same time), thus making Lucifer's angsty, powerful, overlord children who can travel between Earth and Hell canon in the Persona universe. :O

It was just a really fun game with cute characters and great music. Still my favorite ATLUS game to this day, and all the friends I've lent/showed it to have loved it as well.

I wish I knew where to start looking for this, this was the only game from the SMT series I haven't played(save for If, Soul Hackers, etc.).

[Xenocide]

I guess mine doesn't REALLY count as a game, except for the eighth installment, but, I still think it's the best thing since KITTENS.

I'm talking about the visual/sound novel/video game/best thing ever known as Umineko No Naku Koro Ni/Ni Chiru.

Umineko is easily the best thing ever. It has engaging plot, realistic characters, and enough suspense to make you cry that it takes TEN HOURS to read an installment so you can get to the end. Basically, it's a fight between the mystery genre and the fantasy genre, over WHO or WHAT committed THIRTEEN MURDERS ON A SECLUDED ISLAND OWNED BY THE RICHEST FAMILY EVER. Witches or a deranged human are the possible culprits, in case you're wondering.

It has eight installments, and was only recently finished. And, the translation patches have all been finished as well.

It was also turned into a fighting game called Ougon Musou Kyoku, and there was an expansion known as CROSS which added several characters and a new plot line.

And, not only that, episodes 1-4 were turned into a Playstation game, and an anime, along with a manga.

BUT SOMEHOW, NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF THESE, AND IT MAKES ME SAD BECAUSE IT DESERVES SO MUCH MORE ATTENTION THAN IT EVER GETS. ;_;

[attlebridge]

I wish I knew where to start looking for this, this was the only game from the SMT series I haven't played(save for If, Soul Hackers, etc.).

If you use a deputy service, you can get the SMT:DC roms for dirt cheap off of Yahoo!Japan auctions (500 yen or less for GBC, 1000-2000 yen for PSX); it was a pretty popular series in its time, so second-hand roms are not rare. Occasionally I see one pop up on ebay.
(or try and find a rom download)

[Durvin]

Another one that I somehow missed last time was a little Sega Genesis game called Cyborg Justice. It actually has nothing to do with cyborgs (or justice); you play as a robot that walks around and beats up other robots. It had a pretty advanced move-set for its time, with all kinds of punches and kicks, plus the weapon-arms you could steal off the enemies--in later levels, they were smart enough that they could steal them off you too--and various ways to repower your health-bar by attacking them with crazy flying attacks. The only problem was that it got a little repetetive--I'm usually not a fan of beat-em-ups for that reason, and this was fifteen levels long with no variety besides how tough the bad guys are--and also the bosses, just more bad-ass versions of the regular guys, could be near-impossible to beat. And the final boss, a Metroid-ripoff...well, even with cheat codes, I never could figure out how to kill it. As a result, I've had one of my favorite games for about fifteen years (wow, I'm old!) and I have yet to beat the damn thing.