Must Play
Resident Evil 4
Psychonauts
Beyond Good & Evil
Great
RPG
Persona 3
+ Great handdrawn art (lengthy anime cutscenes, interesting demon persona designs), interesting blend of styles, clean and easy to use interface, deep battle system, flirts with psychology, random dungeons?, difficulty options, good tutorials,
- some redundant scenes/dialogue (such as watching your characters walk through the mall every day with no interaction or anything interesting happening), targeted mainly at teens, voice acting while decent is not good enough to make you wait for each line (you can skip ahead), it often feels like you're missing out on parts of the story because you can usually only pick one dialogue option and then the game moves on, very limited in terms of exploration outside the dungeons, second rate polygonal graphics
Disgaea
ACTION
God of War
Timesplitters 2
Prince of Persia
ACTION ADVENTURE
Killer 7
Shadow of the Colossus
SURVIVAL HORROR
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
BEAT/SHOOT 'EM UP
Viewtiful Joe
Viewtiful Joe 2
Graphics-8 Sound-8 Control-8 Challenge-8
Level Design-7 Frustration-7 Fun-7 Originality-6
Overall Score-
+slow-mo matrix mode, 2 different characters, good variation, whacky jap humour
- frog perspective, some leaps of faith, not quite obvious what you need to do to proceed sometimes, repetitive, normal enemies take a lot of hits to kill
Good if...
ICO
Final Fantasy XII
Metal Gear Solid 2
Mediocre
Final Fantasy X
Total Crap.