Obscure Games You Have Played

[tendokiddo]

Just thought of a fun game I used to play as a young'n, thought I'd drop a place to talk about Monster Tale, probably my favorite game of all time that no one has ever heard of.

The game combines Metroidvania, Pet Sim and Pokemon style genres to create a really cool experience that used the DS dual screens quite effectively.
Main gimmick of the game was that the top screen was used for overworld exploration / combat, and the bottom screen was a remote portal location where your monster pet chilled out and stored it's items. You could also freely switch your pet from one location to the other, with it being able to use offensive and defensive skills by using some of it's mana.


There were also a few fights that incorporated both screens into the fight, usually having your pet monster hitting part of the enemy in the bottom side while you'd physically fight it out with the top side.


It also had a pretty expansive evolution tree, with your pet monster turning from a child, to a teenager and finally an adult as you progressed through the game, with each stage having 10 different forms that unlocked unique skills.

Cool Evo Tree
The game got a ton of good reviews from game journalists, but ultimately didn't really reach a wide audience with the game only being released within the United States. It's also one of the very few games of the time that had a non sexualised female lead, supposedly a controversial decision for the publishers.


That's my blurb, wanted to talk about a game that I had a ton of fun playing and replaying, would highly suggest people try it out.

Now I'd love to hear other games that are generally unknown to the public!

 

[tendokiddo]

Hey thx mods for moving this, I haven't even realized there was a sperate category for these types of threads :D

 

[Sheep]

Haven't actually finished it, but Hometown Story!

Really cute-looking game in the life sim genre, similar to games like Recettear where you run a shop. It was...very clunky and confusing to play honestly. But I've had a desire to get through it lately and might go back to it. The art is cute!

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[Devalue]

Could probably name a few, but how about Oddballz?



Created multiple games that allowed a virtual pet to roam around your desktop. (Believes they could, anyways. Saw nothing but in-game wallpapers while looking through images.) Centered around cats and dogs, mainly, as mentioned at the top. Produced Oddballz as well. Looked like this:



Built them out of eight or so spheres. Interacts with them with the items on the side. Either blew them up into a bunch of spheres or morphed them into something else with the ray gun. Guesses one of those items in there to be a music machine.

Chose between several different eggs. Could probably only have one, maybe two out at a time. Turned them back into eggs by feeding them into the hole above the eggs.

 

[Palamon]

Lux Pain, maybe? I don't know if that's obscure. Also, maybe Hoshigami Remix.

If not, another one I can think of is Witch's Wish.

 

[Quto]

Gamer Obscurea; Games in Hiding - The PokéCommunity Forums

This nothing more but a list of games people may have never heard before; games that we're pushed out of the lime-light during the time of their release. The games I'm including have been released and are still up for grabs, so here goes something. With this topic growing, I decided...

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