Obscure/Japan only PS1 games

[Anonymous No.5936547]

I've been playing a lot of different PS1 games lately. Many of which are extremely easy to play if you are EOP with either minimal menu usage or none at all, often having a ton of English anyway.

One I've tried is Community Pom. A really pretty top down action game with RPG elements such as inventory management, equipment management and level ups. The combat is fun and you have a nice and varied move set to use too. Best of all it doesn't seem like you need to know Japanese to get very far.

Have you played any particularly stand out titles? They don't have to be Japan only, even games that aren't very well known but were released in many regions would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.5936562]

Panzer Bandit
It's by (a friend with similar philosophies of) the creator of Guardian Heroes

[Anonymous No.5936565]

>>5936562
I like that one too. I think I enjoyed it more than guardian heroes, I felt the lane switching was handled better.

[Funcoland Clown No.5936709]

Gungage

[Anonymous No.5936732]

>>5936709
Great third person shooter. If you like FPS games and dungeon crawlers give crime crackers a shot.

[Anonymous No.5936787]

>>5936547
Time Bokan has a couple of vertical shooters that require minimal Japanese knowledge.

[Anonymous No.5937637]

I will shill this game forever

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[Anonymous No.5937659]

So, when do people start posting obscure games?

[Anonymous No.5937705]

...Iru!

PS1 Jap exclusive first person survival horror in between Clock Tower and Echo Night.

It's quite text heavy so playing it without moonspeaking is not recommended, although I did beat it that way, but never could get all the endings.

The game is more popular now, you can find it on several websites like mobygames etc but until I started spreading word about it online a decade ago it was non existant on the western internet

[Anonymous No.5939039]

>>5937705
Japanese make very interesting first person games. Crime Crackers is fantastic if you've never played it. Basically Doom combat in a dungeon crawler shell.

[Anonymous No.5939042]

Devilman

[Anonymous No.5939061]

Not obscure but I've been playing Legend of Mana's JP release lately and it has a Pocketstation boardgame minigame. It's not great but it's kind of fun to send your monster out to it and get it XP and random items for your game.

[Anonymous No.5939070]

>>5936547
>extremely easy to play if you are EOP with either minimal menu usage or none at all, often having a ton of English anyway
the quick easy term for this is: “import friendly”

[Anonymous No.5939109]

Got a copy of Kaze no Notam for dirt cheap at some chain store in Takayama. I am a happy man.

[Anonymous No.5939119]

>>5936547

>Touge Max 2
>Touge Max G

The first one is skippable, but these two are great. Mountainpass racing with Japanese cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMRxBYl-8b4

[Anonymous No.5939254]

Pepsi Man ? Before AVGN brought attention to it.

[Anonymous No.5939264]

>>5939254
Pepsiman was incredibly well known as a silly Japan-only title long before AVGN touched it.

[Anonymous No.5939830]

>>5936547
Neorude. A sort of point and click RPG, there was a few more games in the series on the ps1 and there was a port on the Saturn. Most notable for being made by Tecno Soft, who made the Thunder Force series and other shooters. I was able to fumble my way through the first bit but to my knowledge there's no translation.

>>5937646
Hey speaking of Tecno Soft. I stumbled upon this by chance, its actually not that bad

[Anonymous No.5939875]

This is a really nice little puzzle game where you stack boxes with a forklift

[Anonymous No.5939985]

Has anyone here tried pic related?

>>5939039
>Crime Crackers
The soundtrack is great too.
https://youtu.be/C7L0RjDLBFs

[Anonymous No.5940506]

Guardian Recall on the PC98 and PS1. It's basically a SRPG version of Jojo. Every character has their own unique guardian with their own strengths and weaknesses and if the guardian gets knocked out then the character that controls it also gets knocked out and the same rules applies to the enemies you fight so you're going to keep your characters safe while taking out enemy guardians, or if the situation permits it their masters. You don't have direct control over the guardians and instead have to manipulate them through commands like attack from afar or heal. It definitely has some jank because of this, but not to the point where it gets unfun to play.

The story isn't anything too special since it's basically your simple JRPG plot about a group of teenagers saving the world from a group of evil assholes except this time everyone on both sides are cute girls something that was probably rarer when the game came out compared to now. The characters are fun though and easily make the story worth it. I'm especially fond of Akira. You don't often see many characters that loves tokusatsu as much as she does and every scene with her is a joy. As for the level of Japanese it doesn't have the most complex vocab out there, but it's still a RPG with a good amount of text so you can't get by without knowing how to read your runes.

The PS1 version has more chapters, a hidden bonus character, and other cool things like a in game encyclopedia on things like character and guardian info and other background info so I prefer it to the PC98 version. The PC98 version is a bit more janky since it doesn't handle scrolling that well making map navigation a bit of a pain. It's also got lesbian sex scenes, but there aren't that many of them and they go by pretty quickly so if you want to fap it would be better to just find the CGs online. Making the game all ages for the PS1 definitely wasn't a hard thing to do.

[Anonymous No.5940862]

>>5940506
girl with the ass

[Anonymous No.5940872]

>>5936547
Psychic Detective is a great FMV game. It's a lot like Twin Peaks.

[Anonymous No.5940882]

>>5940506
I thought this sounded familiar but it's actually on my list of Windows games to check out some time
I guess it got a Windows port, too

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[Anonymous No.5941951]

This one requires very little knowledge of japanese

[Anonymous No.5941959]

Got translated recently

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[Anonymous No.5941975]

Only IV got translated

[Anonymous No.5941985]

Clock Tower has a PS1 Japan only version that got translated

[Anonymous No.5941987]

>>5941959
I think you mean the second one and I think you mean years ago...the first one came out officially in English back in the day.

[Anonymous No.5941994]

I'm an EOP and I managed to beat this, though I don't know how since there are a ton of menus to sort through. I guess you just remember what the squiggles men after awhile?

[Anonymous No.5941998]

The Adventure of Little Ralph

>>5941987
That cover is of the second one,you are right about the translation not being recent (2015)

[Anonymous No.5942009]

Nekketsu Oyako,pretty good beat em up,can't go wrong with Tecnosoft

[Anonymous No.5942019]

One of,if not the best shmup on the console