General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

So the Sonic CD effect:

Rare, not well known or games that aren't very accessible to be played my the majority or people that are held up as some sort of mythical, amazing game experience that are actually kind of ****.

Anyone got one?

I'll start:

Xenogears

Even back in the late PS1 era this game was hard to find and expensive. Anime Eva fans wouldn't shut up about it. The moderator of the games forum at the time wouldn't shut up about how amazing it was. I managed to scrounge 80 euros together to import it from america and got screwed over with a scratched disc that wouldn't load. Second attempt at getting it for 80 euros worked.

And it was.... grand. It's a mish mash of nearly every sci fi idea and concept mixed together with a sprinkling of bargain basement Evangelion. It's a bit like 13 Sentinels in that regard except the concept works for 13 Sentinels while Xenogears comes across as trying to hard.

It's a very interesting game so actually well worth playing with a GOAT soundtrack contender but I couldn't call it great. For every story beat that works there's three pants on head stupid scenes. The combat system almost works but is at least interesting. Square seemed to copy Chrono Trigger for all it's game stories after it and like FF7 it's just a darker version of that. And the whole thing just isn't finished with disc 2 being the videogame equivalent of the last 2 episodes of evangelion with the protagonists sitting on a chair telling you the story (I'm not making this up, it is literally this).

And the worst thing. 2 weeks after I got the game EA announced a PS1 greatest hits release of the game for 20 dollars.

Rocky and Pocky is getting the same remake treatment that Wild Guns and Ninja Saviors got. Looking forward to it as the original is already a classic.