Quote Originally Posted by lendelin View Post
I'd be much more selective than the OP, but one game was not mentioned so far, and that shows me how 'hidden' this 'true' gem indeed is:

Everblue 2. A wonderful game of the shamefully neglected underwater genre, great game design, great missions, the "pacing" (to use a fashionable word) is perfect, collecting and exploration (two basic important elements of game design) are at times brilliantly executed. Worthwhile having, worthwhile playing, a gem of every collection.
Yeah, I agree that Everblue 2 is a unique game that I think hardly anybody played.

Like I said in the original post, I did this thread in the spirit of the previous PS1 thread, and there were actually lots of hidden gems in the original PlayStation's library of hundreds of games. I don't know the official tally on the number of PS2 games released, but out of the hundreds available, I picked games that I had played that didn't sell extremely well (hence, the exclusion of even the Jak, Sly and Ratchet platform series from the list).

A lot of these games are pretty competent games on their own, even though they're derivative of other games (e.g. Cold Fear is a pretty good RE4 rip-off and some are sequels to games that oddly didn't sell that well in the first place like V-Rally 3).