good anime themed video games released in the US

[swlovinist]

I was just wondering, what have been some good anime themed video games that have been released in the US? For the sake of this being in the classic section, I guess I am thinking of video games that were released atari to dremacast era. Thanks, John

[Snapple]

Well, quality anime games are definitely in the minority, because most of them suck. I think they suffer from the same problem as movie based games, in that they don't always try to make a killer game because it's going to be sold based on the license anyway.

There is a Sailor Moon RPG for the SNES that's pretty good. That's the only thing coming to mind right now, but I know there are more than that.

[Fuyukaze]

On the cart based systems, there was a few but none were that great. Fist of the North Star was ok on the NES but damned near unplayable on the Genesis. The GB one was a weak fighter but as the PW was easy to manipulate to get charcters levels up, it wasnt that bad. Ranma came out for the SNES but it was more a game to avoid unless you were an avid fan of the series. Ghost in the Shell for the PS1 was one of the first to be fairly decent. The level mix up wasnt the same for each mission. While you were always stuck inside the tank, it played well and the controls were good. Plus the extra animation didnt hurt either. The two Robotech games on the PS2 and X-Box were marginal at best. In the graphics, they were acceptable but some of the missions were super easy and either followed or were followed by an incredably difficult one. I eventualy stoped playing the first after being unable to sneak behind the pods. The Inu-Yasha games are acceptable. Atleast the first one on the PS1 was. It wasnt the greatest as far as fighters, but it didnt glitch up. It just could have used more moves for each charcter.

There's been alot more anime based games released as of late. One Piece, Bleach, Yu Yu, Full Metal, and some that escape me at the moment but I've yet to play any other then the first DS FMA and it was only decent if you paid less then 20 for it new.

It's a shame they never released the Akira games during the NES/SNES/Genesis/GB/GG days or the continual macross games they planed for the SNES/N64/PS1. After getting to play the demo for Macross VFX thanks to OPSM, I was sorely disapointed to learn it was cancled shortly after they released the playable demo.

[DefaultGen]

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[Cryomancer]

Are you asking about things directly liscensed from a show or just games with the "artstyle"? Lots of the Turbo library is very much Japanese artisticly.

[JSoup]

Good
Anime
Video Game

Pick two of the above.

[LiquidPolicenaut]

Does Snatcher count or is that just cartoony? <3 Snatcher.

I obviously love Snatcher, but it defnitely doesn't fall into this category. It COULD fall into the "inspired-by" a movie category though

Back on topic, even though it wasn't released in the US, the Urusei Yatsura game for the Mega CD was pretty damn good...