Your favourite lesser-known games

[Deathsong17]

I searched and found a similar thread posted months ago, but thought I'd start another to get different responses.

Anyway...
I was looking through my old PS1/2 game collections and realised that a lot of my favourite games are actually games which are not so well known, perhaps underrated or just games which intrigued me but I never saw any reviews of and just bought out of curiosity.
On PS2 one of my favourite games was the fairly dark RPG 'Shadow Hearts'.
The Legacy of Kain series springs to my mind as well. Although it's fairly well known, it's never gained massive popularity, but I thoroughly enjoyed every game of the series.

Does anyone else have favourites which never really reached a well-known status?

I loved Shadow Hearts! It's a shame the difficulty curve was so unforgiving.

Fluffy Mcfluffenstien and Tactical Assasin.

I don't think Flash games count.

 

[The Infinite]

Freedom Fighters, seems a lot of other people actually have played it which is good to hear.
Oh and for another one that i liked a lot Alundra 2, that game made me freaked out by keys.
XIII for awesome celshaded sneaky awesomeness.

 

[ae86gamer]

Legend of the Dragoon. It was a very fun game.

 

[Xorghul]

Overlord.

I seriously think this game is probably the best most original idea of 2007

Yes^^ And the sequel is coming!*mentally hyperventilating*

 

[S-Unleashed]

Another chance to say how much I love Jet Set Radio future.
No More Heroes also surprised me by being somewhat fun, none of my friends though were brave enough to play, mostly because of Destroy Man.

 

[Meado]

Overlord
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Jedi Power Battles

And if I haven't hammered home my fanboism of Kingdom Under Fire yet, I need to start posting more.

 

[Croaker42]

For me had to be Vegrant Story (Im the only one I know that ever played it)I loved the weapon abilitys, crafting system and the story was really good.

 

[unknownmasterer]

Dreamfall the longest journey
or star wars calactic battlegrounds saga

 

[Croaker42]

Legend of the Dragoon. It was a very fun game.

I loved Legend of the Dragoon. I thought the lvling system for the dragoon armor was a little broken. But over all great gameplay, outstanding story.

 

[hannarr]

Klonoa 2! So cute! Any game which has an NPC called "Popka" is good with me!

 

[the_unseen]

RAD

 

[blood77]

Guitly Gear and Disgaea

 

[RazielDethAngel]

As my name says the Legacy of Kain series, also the freeware game Liero with some mods, I loved the PS2/Xbox Punisher game,Psi-Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy.

All these are excellent games and as one user already said Freedom Fighters.

 

[Wulf Legend]

I would have to go with Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced for GBA and Metal Arms for the last gen consoles.

 

[JoeKickAzz]

The Darkness

 

[GeoPB]

I'm a sheep, I don't play lesser known ones.

 

[RanD00M]

Wizardry 8. Best RPG ever made.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who ever talks of it.

It is a horrible game.

OT: Croc:Legend of the Gobbos.

 

[RanD00M]

Klonoa 2! So cute! Any game which has an NPC called "Popka" is good with me!

I have it to.Rather fun.

 

[Hazy]

Know what game this dude is from?

You should, It's a classic. Too bad it wasn't more Well Recieved.

I though Bad Fur Day was quite well recieved, ack well, I'm with this one then, that game was great so was Conker Live and Reloaded.

It was, by a certain audience. The audience of "Aye, it's a game, it's meant to be fun." Audience.
Back in 2001, I think there was still alot of "ZOMG VIDEO GAMEZ SHULD B GOOD 4 TEH CHILDRENZ!!!"
People who believed all games should be marketed towards the kids, and thats why it could have been much more warmly recieved then it was.
Personally, I think this is Rare's best.

 

[Swaki]

magnus og myggen, a danish low budget click and point adventure game series, so the "danish" part already means no more than 200 thousand could ever have played it, but even by those standards its not very known, they made a few of them and they became less fun, charming and challenging as time went by so maybe it was a good thing they dint became successful, if they did there would have been a fan boy site where me and some other guys would whine every day (now i only whine once a month).