“At its heart, Viewtiful Joe is a retro-flavored remix of the beat-em-up and platformer, and each genre’s trappings are present and accounted for: imaginative levels to traverse, waves of mean mutants and powerful bosses to fight, coins to collect, and hidden power-ups to be discovered. Enjoy! Action/Beatemup Viewtiful Joe & Viewtiful Joe 2 I invite you to click on the review link to read the full reviews for the games that grab your attention. Instead of stressing myself out trying to writeup a summary of each of these games, I’m citing some quotes from my favorite reviews of each of the featured games. I will eventually be making more detailed posts for the more popular genres like shmups and fighters that will cover all the games, old and new, from those respective genres, but this will be the best starting point. The best imports for each genre will be listed at the end of each section. I am also mainly focusing on games that had a US release (which usually means a PAL release as well), so they will be the ones that are easiest to find and play. This allows games like Street Fighter 3 from the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection to be included, while keeping this list from being filled with countless compilations and ports. I think any old-school fan will find a number of games on this list that they will enjoy.īecause there are a number of excellent 2D games for this system, I’m making a cut-off point of 1998 as the earliest year of original release for a game to included in this list of “modern” 2D games. The PS2, in particular has a nice balance of 2D games in both artistic style and gameplay. Some of them actually use 3D graphics for all of the visuals, but keep the gameplay in a 2D perspective. What’s especially interesting about modern 2D games is that not all of them use old-school sprites or hand-drawn art. I also find it an ironic place to start as Sony was has always been protective about having 2D games being on the PS2. Since it is the most common and well-rounded of the modern consoles, I’m starting with the Playstation 2. In a response to many requests, I’m starting a new series covering the best modern 2D games for newer consoles.
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