Can we talk about underrated, overlooked, or Japan-only PS2 games?

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this game really made me wonder just how many fetish games are there on the PS2. The library is so huge there has to be more.

vanquish; the soundtrack is fucking great

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Thank goodness there was an english patch. The last and best Front Mission game.

>>385060784
I'm playing this right now. While I feel like it must have been great for it's time, it's a bit boring for nowadays, the combat is simply too simplistic. Still, great ideas like building the towns and the weapon upgrade system. I wish more games had weapons be a malleable thing.

>>385061979
Isnt there a minigame in FFXIV like that game?

>>385062091
I don't know, I only played vanilla and all there was was materia you could socket into weapons. Yeah I guess it's sort of the same thing but I like how in Dark Cloud you can turn a weapon into a "materia" giving it a percentage of the weapon stats and then infuse that into other weapons, eventually evolving them and stuff.

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Did anyone else play this game? I borrowed it from a library almost a decade ago and I remember it being great.

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>>385060314
Rumble roses, it has it's own engine and it looks better than the WWE games at the time, usually overlooked cause it makes people think in naughty things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrDIXhRt2Q

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Would never have expected such a fun bullet hell/beat'em'up to come out of this random ded comic franchise

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>>385060314
This game is hard as fuck to find. They're coming out with a new one for the ps4 though.

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The 2nd best Tales game in the series, released only in Japan.

>>385063808
tfw no modern rumble roses

>>385064465
KOUJOO KONBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xCkQB5mtsY

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>>385060314
The 3DS game is overlooked too.

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OP asked for Japan-only games. Most of the replies in this thread include games released in virtually every territory the PS2 was marketed in.

>>385066329
>underrated, overlooked, or Japan-only
>or

>>385066329
>underrated, overlooked, or Japan-only

Note the use of commas and the conjunction "or"

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>>385064725
I don't know hwat happened but the idea was brilliant, all woman fighters are a genre on it's own.

>>385064725
Wouldn't that just be Girl Fight

>>385066575
>>385066623

None of the non-Japan games posted are underrated OR overlooked. OP might as well Google generic PS2 recommendations.

>>385066748
>Dark Cloud
>???
>that's the only popular one

Congratz on being a hipster gorgnard I guess?

Is there a full list of early PS2 games that were on CD and not on DVD?
I have little space left on the HDD I use for my PS2 and i want to full it with as many games as possible.
I remember there was a full list on wikipedia, and i even found links to it on various other sites and forums, but it seems it's been deleted.