Games You Love, Most Others Hate

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

The Timesplitters series.

Even though I'm aware that it's done "well enough" to have a 4th installment / current gen sequel (recently announced),

when I tell people that it's my favorite FPS series, they either tilt their head like a confused puppy (usually out of complete un-awareness of the series) or they proceed to tell me how much they hate the series and/or how it's not as good as HALO / Half Life 2, etc.

[Lerxstnj]

The RPG Beyond The Beyond for the PSone, I know most say it's shit but I still love to play through it at least once every 1 to 2 years.

I never finished the game, but I like it enough to go back and play it someday. I also really like the music in this game.

[Ruudos]

The Simpons games "Bart vs. the Space Mutant" and "Bart vs. the World" for the NES. I especially liked World.

[skylark]

Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Sure it's a simple design, but why is that bad?

[G-Boobie]

Wartech: Senko no Ronde for the 360 by G.Rev.

I really enjoy the weird ass shmup fighting game concept, though I understand why most people don't like it.

[DJShrimpy]

Super Mario Land
Ghosts n Goblins series
Hexen
Strife
Gauntlet
Bomb Jack

[Rob2600]

Super Mario Land
Ghosts n Goblins series
Hexen
Strife
Gauntlet
Bomb Jack

Most others hate Super Mario Land, Ghosts 'n Gobins, and Gauntlet?

[DJShrimpy]

Most others hate Super Mario Land, Ghosts 'n Gobins, and Gauntlet?
Well from what I've experienced, people hate SML because it doesn't follow the same formula as the other SMB titles, people hate GnG for its difficulty, and people hate Gauntlet for its repetitiveness.

[Rob2600]

Well from what I've experienced, people hate SML because it doesn't follow the same formula as the other SMB titles, people hate GnG for its difficulty, and people hate Gauntlet for its repetitiveness.

I've always thought those were considered classics.

[darkhades]

Blue Stinger (Dreamcast)
Ka ge ki: Fists of Steel (Genesis)
Shove It! (Genesis)
Beyond the Beyond (PS1)
Tao's Adventure (DS)
Final Lap Twin (TG-16)
Baten Katios (Gamecube)

[xfrumx]

Three Dirty Dwarves (Saturn) Awesome little brawler, I wish there was something that closely resembles a game like this now. Yet I cannot find anyone who can remember this title.

Me I love it!

[MrSparkle]

star wars rebellion for pc kind of an old strategy game really indepth takes 5x longer to complete a game of it than even your longest winded monopoly sessions but i still love it and play it to this day.

[GnawRadar]

XIII for the GameCube

[kewlrabbit]

Killer 7 for the Gamecube. I just love that game, but all my friends get kind of freaked out when i play it.

[Alfador]

Super Mario Land
Ghosts n Goblins series
Hexen
Strife
Gauntlet
Bomb Jack

Haha Hexen, I loved that game on the 64..

[Wraith Storm]

Club Drive for the Jag -
This game gets almost no love. My friend thought it was a blast and talked about it for years. I finally came across a copy and bought it and called him up and we had a blast. We stayed up all night playing it. Its just a simple FUN game.

Blue Stinger on the Dreamcast -
This game was universally panned. WHY!?!?!? It had great graphics and an incredible musical score. I know most people said it had camera issues but if it did, it never bothered me. I think the problem was that people tried to take it seriously like Resident Evil. The game was serious at times but overall it just parodied the genere and with great succsess I must say. I also liked the RPG elements. Its one of the most fun games I have played in the past 10 years... Go ahead and flame me... but its true... I love Blue Stinger!

[thetoxicone]

My two are Hard Drivin and Race Drivin...I can't help it I find these games fun and ever now and again will toss one in my genesis or snes and give it a go.

[Famidrive-16]

Aerogauge for the N64 had some mediocre reviews, and it was short, but I enjoy it and still play it every month or so. I'd go as far as saying that I like it more than F-Zero X.

I've seen many people dislike New Super Mario Bros, but I considered it the best Mario game since 64 (till Galaxy came out, at least)

Rad Gravity was a pretty innovative NES game in my view, but I saw a lot of posts in that Bottom NES List topic from people who hated it.

[Amnion-Chorion]

First things that come to mind for me are:

Fossil League (DS), Digimon Series (PS1, DS)- I have a thing for mediocre Pokemon clones, or so I've learned over the years.

Deadly Towers (NES)- Terrible music and terrible level and character design. Why can't I stop playing it?

Pac-Man 2 (Genesis)- I must've rented this a hundred times as a kid before I finally bought it. Pac's reactions are still as priceless as they ever were!

[Famidrive-16]

Pac-Man 2 (Genesis)- I must've rented this a hundred times as a kid before I finally bought it. Pac's reactions are still as priceless as they ever were!

This game ruled, but the mine cart level suuuuckkkked

[Fear The Turtle]

Yo! Noid for NES. This game gets disrespected often because of the damn character in the game but the gameplay is solid and very fun. I liked this game as a kid and I like it now. It's actually one of my favorite NES games.


Absolutely!

[Steve W]

Club Drive is another favorite Jaguar game of mine. South Park Rally on the Dreamcast was pretty panned, mainly because the tracks weren't well defined and you could easily go off them if you so desired. That's why I loved it! You could zip off where the computer generated karts couldn't normally follow, which was pretty great. Speaking of kart games, Merlin Racing on the Nuon was another favorite, far more so than Tempest 3000.

There's so many other unpopular games that I love, I can't think of them off the top of my head. I'll happily give a game a lot of slack to get down to what the designers had in mind.

[Natty Bumppo]

I have always like Echo Night for the playstation. Seems to get usually dissed (when mentioned at all). Was really more of a story telling game wrapped up as a mystery than anything else. The ending was really jarring in terms of gameplay since it was totally different than the rest of the game. The movie "Ghost Ship" (2002) reminded me a lot of Echo Night. I also liked it a lot whilst most critics didn't.


Another game I liked was Vandal Hearts II for the playstation. It had a really crummy battle system but if you could see beyond that it had a lot of really great features. The battle system didn't bother me as much as it seemed to bother others if you take into consideration that most AIs in console SRPGs are dumber than boxes of rocks anyway - which typically makes the games less than challenging no matter what the battle system is.

[Nebagram]

Gotta be Space Giraffe, though that's no so much 'generally disliked' as 'divides the gaming community something rotten, at least amongst those who gave it a chance'.

Can't think of any others off the top of my head but I'm sure there were some in the old days. I even remember getting some mileage... okay, yardage... out of ALF on the Master System, though I may have borrowed that game simply to see how bad it truly was.

[Graham Mitchell]

I have always like Echo Night for the playstation. Seems to get usually dissed (when mentioned at all). Was really more of a story telling game wrapped up as a mystery than anything else. The ending was really jarring in terms of gameplay since it was totally different than the rest of the game. The movie "Ghost Ship" (2002) reminded me a lot of Echo Night. I also liked it a lot whilst most critics didn't.




Echo Night was reviewed this month in Game Informer's "Classic Review" section. They knocked it...I think it got a 6. They just felt there were some flaws in it, but it had potential to be cool. It actually looks kind of interesting to me...like 'D' or 7th Guest, or even Mansion of Hidden Souls. Those games are usually fun once, and tend to have cool soundtracks.

@Nebagram--I've experimented with ALF and, although I couldn't be bothered with that game today, I think that, based on the adventure/action gameplay, that's probably a game I would have really enjoyed at the time of its release. It's got a bad rep but I think it looks amusing. [It's probably more fun and less bland than freakin' Miracle Warriors, that's for sure.]

[megasdkirby]

Echo Night was simply awesome. I loved every minute of it. Too bad the second part was never ported to the US market. :(

[Natty Bumppo]

Echo Night was reviewed this month in Game Informer's "Classic Review" section. They knocked it...I think it got a 6. They just felt there were some flaws in it, but it had potential to be cool. It actually looks kind of interesting to me...like 'D' or 7th Guest, or even Mansion of Hidden Souls. Those games are usually fun once, and tend to have cool soundtracks.

Yeah - Echo Night doesn't have much in the way of replay value - I only played it twice (with a long period between plays). I think it is just too slow paced for most people - but it has an interesting story that unfolds and that is what I liked about it. Then again I like puzzle games like Boxxle and Boxy Boy where the pace is pretty slow - but they require some thought.

[Sabz5150]

Starflight for the Genesis. That was one of those games you had to rip me away from with a crowbar.

[Graham Mitchell]

Starflight for the Genesis. That was one of those games you had to rip me away from with a crowbar.

What? People hate Starflight? That games a stone-cold classic. Kind of grating soundtrack, but I think that adds to the mystique. Mass Effect owes a lot to it.

[Sabz5150]

What? People hate Starflight? That games a stone-cold classic. Kind of grating soundtrack, but I think that adds to the mystique. Mass Effect owes a lot to it.

Well, at least the group I used to hang with when I was younger thought it was boring and pointless. Not exactly the game a group of teens will gather to play. Personally, it ranks up in my top 5 all time favorites with ease.

Soundtrack? What soundtrack? Oh, the stardock tune and the "wowowowowawawawawawawawawawawa......."? I agree, that did add to the mystique. Quite often though I would smack the pause button just to hush it up so it was just me and the sounds of spaceflight.

If you'll excuse me, my Genesis is calling :D

[Graham Mitchell]

ORBIT ESTABLISHED

SCANNING...

ANALYZING...

FUEL LEVEL CRITICAL

I love the sound of that on-board computer.

[captainfrieza]

Well I always had a soft spot in my heart for Earthbound for Snes. I'm not sure if it was "hated" per say, but seemed to be deminished (especially in the US) compared to all the other great Rpg's for the Snes.

[Osaka]

One of my favorite games of all time is the Tower of Druaga. I've been called crazy, stupid, even a masochist for liking this game :O Apparently I'm the only one who plays it on the MAME cabinet in the DP store.

[Nebagram]

Another one I forgot- Sonic Spinball. Dunno about the popular opinion but I've seen this one slagged off a lot in publications lately. I personally loved both the game and the whole concept behind the game.

[Carey85]

Eh, Pengo and Time Lord are probably the black sheep of my list.

[Sabz5150]

ORBIT ESTABLISHED

SCANNING...

ANALYZING...

FUEL LEVEL CRITICAL

I love the sound of that on-board computer.

And was it just me or when you lowered the shields, did the computer sound... disappointed? Kinda like it wanted to say "*sigh* Fine..."

[Graham Mitchell]

And was it just me or when you lowered the shields, did the computer sound... disappointed? Kinda like it wanted to say "*sigh* Fine..."

Totally. But it was the opposite--the computer sounded excited when you lowered the shields I think. Then it sounded bummed when you put them back on. I loved it!

The voice sounds infinitely cleaner if you run the sound test ( I think you hold A and B simultaneously while in the Arth space station.) Interference from the other sound channels gives the computer laryngitis, I guess.

[Ruudos]

Aerogauge for the N64 had some mediocre reviews, and it was short, but I enjoy it and still play it every month or so. I'd go as far as saying that I like it more than F-Zero X.

I've seen many people dislike New Super Mario Bros, but I considered it the best Mario game since 64 (till Galaxy came out, at least)

Rad Gravity was a pretty innovative NES game in my view, but I saw a lot of posts in that Bottom NES List topic from people who hated it.

Rad Gravirt is one of the greatest games for NES. What's not to like?
I just went through the Bottom 20 NES game topic, but couldn't find one guy mentioning Rad Gravity there.

[The 1 2 P]

For some reason most people hated the PS1 "classics" Mortal Kombat Mythologies and Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi. Mythologies wasn't that bad, it was just hella hard. And having to press a buttom to turn the other way to face opponents wasn't exactly kosher either. As for Teras Kasi, I guess I enjoyed it so much because I played it before Tekken 3 and Dead or Alive came out. It's still fun to me though.

[dreamcaster]

Final Fantasy X-2

[Steve W]

I'm replaying Fallout-Brotherhood of Steel on the Xbox right now. Everyone seems to hate this game. But then, they also state that they're huge Fallout fans and don't like the way the game deviated from the original. I've never played the original Fallout (even though I own it for the Mac), so I had no reason to dislike the game. I found it to be a fun action game with RPG elements. I'm playing it for the fourth time through.

[Sotenga]

The Castlevania Adventure. Yes, the crappy Game Boy one. I'm just such a blind diehard CV fan... fanBOY. I said it, goddammit. Crap, I'm probably even going to like the upcoming Castlevania: Judgment fighting title because my inherent love for the series dictates it so. Ugh. :X

[SpaceHarrier]

Battle Arena Toshinden - PSX -- This makes alot of those Top 10 lists of overrated games. I still love it. It's sluggish as heck and the AI is braindead, but I still have endless fun with it. The graphics were amazing for their time and still look decent smoothed over on the PS2. The music is amazing, if you are into synth. The characters are a heck of a lot more interesting than in alot of fighters I've seen. It basically introduced the sidestep mechanic. To me, everything about the game is iconic. Along with Wipeout it sold me on, and defined the Playstation as a console (for me at least) until Resident Evil came along. BAT 2 was also solid, but the desperation attacks were unbalanced.


Final Fantasy 8 - PSX -- I enjoyed the DRAW mechanic. I also liked the emo characters and generally schizophrenic storyline.


Wrecking Crew - NES -- I don't know how the majority of gamers feel about this one, but it was another one that showed up on a "worst of" list awhile back. I've loved this since I was a kid. It was the first "create a level" game I played. You could make a superhard/masochistic level... or you could just put together all this crazy junk and set up us the bomb and watch the world fall apart. :)

[Graham Mitchell]

Wrecking Crew - NES -- I don't know how the majority of gamers feel about this one, but it was another one that showed up on a "worst of" list awhile back. I've loved this since I was a kid. It was the first "create a level" game I played. You could make a superhard/masochistic level... or you could just put together all this crazy junk and set up us the bomb and watch the world fall apart. :)

I love Wrecking Crew. Some of those black box games are really great, including Clu Clu Land, Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, and Gumshoe. I would gather a lot of people don't like those game, either.

[SegaAges]

Sonic the Hedgehog on X-Box 360. I said it. The game is awesome. I really enjoyed it, and plan on going back for more ach points

Look at my ach points if you don't believe me.

I love that game. My fav 360 game so far. I found out the deal with the cameras and it is not bad at all now. Basically, if the camera goes crazy, you're doing it wrong. Turn around and go the way you came, or die and start over.

[MrSparkle]

StarWars rebellion all the way. One of the coolest strategy games ever got terrible press. Infact i remember buying it at eb when it first came out and the sales guy was like "dude that game sucks dont buy it" of course id already played it and had loved it so i tried to justify how awesome it was. He was not convinced.

[retro junkie]

P.N. 03 for the GameCube. It got a lot of terrible reviews and seemed to have gotten alot of negative bashing by people. I love the game. But then again I love a good shoot'em up too. It has a slight learning curve and once you get the hang of it there is a lot of strategy to the shooting action. To me it is a lot of fun.

[Famidrive-16]

Rad Gravirt is one of the greatest games for NES. What's not to like?
I just went through the Bottom 20 NES game topic, but couldn't find one guy mentioning Rad Gravity there.

I swear it got mentioned in there. Maybe I misread a few titles or something. This was a while back though.

[RJ]

Well, 5 1/2 yrs have passed since I posted, here's an update!

Those $10 PS1 titles I mentioned on pg 2? I dont have them any more- they were the 1st ones to go in my massive collection overhaul, but I did enjoy them.

That said, thumbs up for Echo Night love. I saw the latest GI review & thought "man, NO ONE appreciates this game, do they." Echo Night: Beyond was also poorly reviewed (I recall Victor Lewis on Electric Playground gave it a 3/10!) but I liked it. Of course, once I got all the endings, it was passed on. LIke the guy above, I also only played it twice, the second time as sort of a goodbye. Echo Night fans may want to try PS1 Juggernaut, a 3-disc adventure game much like Echo Night that also doesnt get much recognition.

Also, big thumbs up to Wrecking Crew! What a great game. A school friend had the NES (I never did) & I always wanted to play Wrecking Crew!

& w/ the arrival of Wii Virtual Console I'm loving the old NES classics I dont already have on cart. I d/l'ed Clu-CLu Land & once I got the control system, see it as a tricky puzzler. At 1st I thought "only 20 levels?" but I havent gotten past #4...

Oh, & WiiWare My Aquarium is on 2x daily, if just to feed the fish. I like most underwater-themed games- Endless Ocean, EverBlue2, Treasures of the Deep, Seaquest, etc when most people/reviewers dont give a good goddamn about them.

[Tupin]

Pretty much all of the black label NES games, including Pinball, Wrecking Crew, and Urban Champion. Quattro Adventure is awesome just because of Dizzy.

Oh, and Sonic Spinball can entertain me.

[Zap!]

Off the top of my head, for the NES I really like Rambo, Top Gun, Jaws, Hoops, and Super Pitfall! Almost everyone seems to hate these.

[BHvrd]

Gotta admit I liked and others hated:

Obi Wan - Xbox, I beat it more than once and....loved it.

Hunter The Reckoning - Xbox, I seriously don't understand why people hated this so much, it was like Gauntlet on crack with some really insane wacky bosses and extra moves. I swear I got bashed repeatedly for playing this game and anytime someone came over and I wanted to play it, they just couldn't stand it.

I have honestly never experienced a game I liked so much yet was so hated by so many people before, I really still don't get it, the game is cool! One day it would be cool if someone would play co-op with me, anyone willing? Lol.

[bendoris]

Spamz!!!

[Smashed Brother]

Kakuto Chojin (Xbox)

I can't really offer up an explanation as to why I loved this game so. Maybe it was the look of the game, or the technique buried deep within that was discovered when you actually gave the game a chance. Sure, it was watered down in some ways when you compared it to the dev's other games, 'Tobal 1 and 2', but I though that it was fantastic. However, I could not get my stuffy, narrow-minded Street Fighter and SoulCalibur friends to play more than a few rounds with me :(

[Arcade_Ness]

I did enjoy FF7: Dirge of Cerebus at the time. The gameplay was average, but I really dug the story.

[Zap!]

Ninja Combat on the Neo-Geo. :)

[sebastiankirchoff]

I really enjoyed Sarge's Heroes on PS1 even though everyone says it sucks balls. The N64 version though sucks IMO.

I also liked those Burger King games on the 360 that were released a couple of years back. They are cheesy as hell, but fun to play and easy achievements.

[Mason P.]

ARMADA for the Dreamcast... I can play this game for HOURS! (And I often have...)

I agree. I bought this for a friend for his birthday, and 4 of us spent hours and hours playing this. I also like Future Cop: LAPD for the PSX and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest for the SNES.

[obesolete]

Out of this World/Another World - on any platform. so much that I actually have a latchhooked wall hanging over my headboard.

Captain Skyhawk - NES - It was one of my first okay?

[Graham Mitchell]

Captain Skyhawk - NES - It was one of my first okay?

It's hard as hell, but a pretty cool game like most of Rare's NES releases.

[Zap!]

Out of this World/Another World - on any platform. so much that I actually have a latchhooked wall hanging over my headboard.

Who hates that game? I thought everyone liked it, especially the awesome 3DO version. Super unusual ending that kept us hanging.

[Chemdawg]

i've always loved the dynasty warriors games, and a lot of people and critics seem to hate them. yea they have their flaws.... but do i care when im mowing down a crowd with a giant ass sword, HELL NO!

lol there should be a thread with games everyone loves and you hate. i could add a lot more to that list. like final fanasty games... my best friend loves them and has every game, i've tried to like them but i just for some reason hate the game. another one that everyone just seems to loveeeeee are the halo games, now i dont hate halo by any means, and i've had my far share of playin it with my friends but i just fail to see what makes everyone love it sooo much, i just dont see anything specail about it from any other good shooter out there.

[obesolete]

Who hates that game? I thought everyone liked it, especially the awesome 3DO version. Super unusual ending that kept us hanging.

Really? Someone else who likes it? I think I'm tearing up!
I know one other person who liked it and we actually had competitions to beat each others speedruns.

Everyone else i've shown the game to said it had shitty graphics and refused to try it.
Shitty graphics? they were revolutionary at the time!
=*(

[Graham Mitchell]

Really? Someone else who likes it? I think I'm tearing up!
I know one other person who liked it and we actually had competitions to beat each others speedruns.

Everyone else i've shown the game to said it had shitty graphics and refused to try it.
Shitty graphics? they were revolutionary at the time!
=*(

I love OOTW as well. Especially all the crazy things the guards say. "Dunushta!"

[Battlehork]

Pretty much all of the black label NES games, including Pinball, Wrecking Crew, and Urban Champion. Quattro Adventure is awesome just because of Dizzy.

Oh, and Sonic Spinball can entertain me.

Urban Champion is hilarious, what with the flowerpots and the cops driving by.

I'll add a couple of LJN games to the list: T&C Surf Designs and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The surfing part T&C Surf Designs really does suck, but I used to be able to play the skateboarding for hours without dying.

As for A Nightmare on Elm Street, FREDDY'S COMING!
Being in the Awake World sucked because you didn't have fireballs, shuriken (the ninja also had a jump kick) or javelins.

[Astrosmash]

I'll second (or third, or whatever) some of the recently-mentioned NES games like Wrecking Crew, Urban Champion and Hoops. While I wouldn't say I loved it, and admittedly it is a terrible game, I did have some fun with the NES version of Superman years ago too.

Recently one of the games I've been playing off-and-on is Marc Ecko's Getting Up on PS2, which got average-at-best reviews, but I've been enjoying it quite a bit. Part of it is probably the fact that I'm something of an art nerd and enjoyed the depth of the background and the involvement of many real graffiti artists in the game's production, but I find the gameplay to be mostly alright too.

[Game Freak]

I took enjoy Out of this World, as well as T&C Surf Designs. I also enjoy Family Fued on the NES, to some extent, along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I also like Gun.Smoke, Disney's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, the Golgo 13 series, and many Disney games on the SNES.

[Zap!]

Really? Someone else who likes it? I think I'm tearing up!
I know one other person who liked it and we actually had competitions to beat each others speedruns.

Everyone else i've shown the game to said it had shitty graphics and refused to try it.
Shitty graphics? they were revolutionary at the time!
=*(
Maybe I'm just used to the 3DO version. It was superior to the SNES and other versions. The graphics were outstanding for its time, cut scenes and everything. Which system did you play it for?

[Sonicwolf]

I love Night Trap. such a campy, hilarious game. Mainly the 3DO version though due to its superior video quality and such.

[Zap!]

I enjoyed Plumbers Don't Wear Ties on the 3DO. Who remembers that? :)

[mnbren05]

A Boy and His Blob NES- So many great memories spent on this game
Festers Quest NES- Another fav. from my childhood
Jaws NES- again played the hell out of this as a kid
Yo Noid NES- I was entranced by the pizza eating mini game never understood it
Cool Spot games Genesis- loved them
Tetrisphere N64- Still love this game
South Park N64- Great fun my parents confiscated this after hearing the game in action
Evil Dead games PS2/Xbox- I love anything bruce campbell
The Thing Xbox- Creepy, difficult, and I liked it
Trapt PS2- I had fun with it
Siren PS2- Creepy and kept me playing
Lupin the Third Treasure of the Sorcerer King PS2- I love anything Lupin

[Rob2600]

Tetrisphere N64- Still love this game

Me too, especially the music! "Learn" is one of my favorite video game songs ever:

http://goodrob13.com/2008/12/08/video-game-music-tetrisphere/

[obesolete]

Maybe I'm just used to the 3DO version. It was superior to the SNES and other versions. The graphics were outstanding for its time, cut scenes and everything. Which system did you play it for?

I have it for snes, sega cd and pc. They all have the same graphics.
Did you ever play the sega cd version that has the "sequel?" Heart of the Alien? It's very tough and very disappointing. If you can get through an average level dying less than 10 times you're a genius at it.

I remember seeing the 3D0 version of OOTW in a magazine but i never got to try it out.

[Zap!]

I have it for snes, sega cd and pc. They all have the same graphics.
Did you ever play the sega cd version that has the "sequel?" Heart of the Alien? It's very tough and very disappointing. If you can get through an average level dying less than 10 times you're a genius at it.

I remember seeing the 3D0 version of OOTW in a magazine but i never got to try it out.

Actually, I first played it on the PC when it was new. When I got a 3DO discounted heavily in early 1997, I picked up this version. The backgrounds were litterally stunning compared to the others. Way better to play on this system.

I always wanted to play the Sega CD sequel, but never did. It only came out on the Sega CD, but I never owned one.

[obesolete]

Actually, I first played it on the PC when it was new. When I got a 3DO discounted heavily in early 1997, I picked up this version. The backgrounds were litterally stunning compared to the others. Way better to play on this system.

I always wanted to play the Sega CD sequel, but never did. It only came out on the Sega CD, but I never owned one.


I don't have a Sega CD either, my Genesis was grey from mildew last time i tried to take a load from my parents basement.

I've played it on emulator. I'll save you the trouble of playing it and give you my review.

Don't. I wanted to play it for YEARS when it first came out and when I finally did it crushed a part of my childhood. It was so bad even Eric Chahi(the maker of the first one) was upset. Just pretend it never existed.
I managed to play it through to the end and was physically upset at what they had done to my cherished childhood game. The ending made you think "If all of this bullshit was going to happen, why did I bother with all that hard work through both games?"
It's like winning the lottery and getting robbed on the way to the bank.

Pretend you never heard of it. It's not worth playing... and I don't say that about many games.