Ten PlayStation games you may have missed
Ten picks from the catalogue a little off the beaten path, and why each one still plays today
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Suikoden 1995
The son of a general of the Scarlet Moon Empire is destined to seek out 108 warriors, amid the empire's political struggles, in the first Suikoden.
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Valkyrie Profile 1999
A role playing game drawn from Norse mythology, in which the valkyrie Lenneth gathers the souls of fallen heroes for the war of Ragnarok.
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Vandal Hearts 1996
In Konami's tactical role playing game for the PlayStation, battles are fought on isometric grids of 3D terrain you can turn, and your whole side moves before the enemy's. If the party leader falls, the battle is lost.
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Klonoa: Door to Phantomile 1997
Klonoa and his friend Huepow set out to save the dream world of Phantomile from an evil spirit, in Namco's platformer with 3D scenery and a 2D path.
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Tomba! 1997
A feral boy named Tomba roams an open island, taking tasks from the people he meets, to get his grandfather's golden bracelet back from the evil Koma Pigs by biting and throwing them.
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Einhänder 1997
In a war between the Earth and the Moon based on the Greek myth of Selene and Endymion, a fighter flies through Square's 2.5D shooter, whose German name means a one handed sword.
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Bushido Blade 1997
A fighting game where one clean hit can kill, there is no health bar and wounds slow or cripple the fighter, set in large outdoor arenas with eight weapons, on the PlayStation in 1997.
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Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense 1999
Every other car in the arena has to be destroyed in this car combat game, and the salvage from wrecked rivals upgrades yours until it turns into a different design.
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Heart of Darkness 1998
A cinematic platformer with thousands of frames of 2D animation in which a boy named Andy goes after his dog Whisky, taken by shadow like spectres.
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Alundra 1997
A young man who can walk into people's dreams is shipwrecked near the village of Inoa, where nightmares kill, and each dream is a puzzle dungeon shaped by the dreamer, in a 1997 PlayStation adventure.
