Lemmi wrote:
Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi[/b] for SNES was also really fun. In some regards it was "just another movie game," but I found that for it's time it had some really advanced and fun aspects. Such as the Deathstar battles with the Millenium Falcon and playing as Wicket the Ewok made the game well worth the money.
Maybe this is kind of strange, but I actually remember this game being reviewed in Gamepro waaaay back then. It scored a perfect 5 across the board. Excellent game for the time, and also one of the only "super hard" platformers that was actually fun all the way through. For the time it was a very hard game, but today things like Ninja Gaiden would make it cry lol.
Pensive wrote:
Another two along that "perhaps not underrated but certainly overlooked" line are LUNAR SSSC and LUNAR2 EB.
Amazing character development in the latter especially that I haven't seen bested by any game save final fantasy nine. The humor level can't be beat either for an rpg; I found myself laughing out loud so many times in that game.
Heh it reminds me of a line from Atelier Iris
Norn (sweet, innocent loli catgirl "Klein, can you sleep in my bed tonight *noyrn* I'm scared"
Klein (male protagonist "But.. but the ESRB would go nuts!"
I completely agree that Lunar was an amazing game, but I would actually say the truely underrated bunch in the Lunar series was Lunar 1 and 2 on Sega CD, where I originally played them way back in 1995. Lunar 1 was the first RPG I ever played, and I had bought in on accident thinking it would be adventure game like Zelda. At first I was somewhat upset about it, but I quickly got into it, and it was the first game that I played non-stop from beginning to end. I have more nostalgia and fond memories of Lunar on Sega CD than any other game (including any single Final Fantasy game). Since the Sega CD mostly bombed here due to the huge push for "Full Motion Video" games like Nighttrap, a few gems snuck by most of America and Europe. Besides Lunar, two other great games were Vay (another RPG by Working Designs) and Popful Mail (a anime-styled side-scrolling adventure game similar to Zelda 2 on the NES, except with a cute story, humor and tons of character).
I was absolutely floored when I saw that both Lunars were being re-released on the PS1. I quickly got both of them, and love them to this day.
Quick facts about Lunar that I read in the original strategy guide for the Sega CD (first strategy guide I ever bought, and I still have it lol):
*In Japan, Lunar was DEFINITELY not an under-rated game. Lunar 1 sold 85% as many copies as there were Mega CDs (Sega CD's name in Japan) in Japan at the time. That meant that every Mega CD owner had an 85% of owning Lunar. That record has never been beaten by any other non-pack-in-game to date.
*Lunar began production in 1989 for the Turbo Grafix-16, since there was word they would be getting a CD system soon. The animated cutscenes proved too much for it, though, and it was scrapped until the Sega CD was released.