@@arturo7926 dunno how a foot fetish is a thing....I have Podophobia. If your shoes are on I'm fine, but, socks or bare feet make me to point of anxiety and being sick if they are near or touch me.
Japanese devs are like "let's make a godzilla type of game" guy in the back - "giant bikini girl that we shoot at and measure with jets?" everyone else - "yep"
That pop star seemed reaaaaally comfortable being a giant. I imagined she'd be hysterical and crying or something, not prancing on people and buildings like a runway. lol
The Sword of Etheria is one my favorite game on the ps2 (I am Belgian) the story is damn cool, the gameplay is really fun and the soundtrack is so awesome !!!! :)
S.L.A.l. actually got a USA release. I have played the USA version of that game before. Also, I played and completed Sword of Etheria years ago, back in 2009.
I haven't laughed that hard in a VERY long time, as you were describing that 1st game. Thanks for that. Hope you're doing well. Always look forward to your videos.
Version differences and availability in some regions always blew my mind. I got The Sword of Etheria as a bonus when I bought Castlevania The Curse of Darkness, I love that game! And got Toto as a tattoo, haha.
This video brings back some memories. I'm Australian and basically all of these games were sold at my local video rental place. I used to pick some up occasionally while I was there and they were so cheap. Sometimes the games turned out to be garbage, sometimes gems like Michigan: Report From Hell
Here in New Zealand, I vividly remember going to the PS2 section of my local rental store every so often. I found some of the weirdest shit, like Mister Mosquito (which I think MJR has talked about before).
I don’t know why Namco or Capcom doesn’t go after a Masters of the Universe license and make a fighting game. It would be a slam dunk in sales. Imagine He-Man characters in a Soul Caliber style fighting game with weapons and projectile magic attacks? That would be totally rad!
Hi from the uk Still hands down favourite console of all time my main console I collect i just hit 250 games recently Working towards a complete pal collection
The PlayStation 2 is THE best games console EVER!!! I’m still collecting games for her today and still seeing games Iv never heard off. No updates, no internet required, no dlc ……ahhhh the good old days
Another great game that never came out in North America is Jackie Chan Adventures, which is basicly a combination of the first two seasons of the great Jackie Chan Adventures TV-Show. Love that game
Demolition Girl, Zombie Zone, Dragon Sisters and Street Golfer were all part of the Simple 2000 series in Japan. There are over 150 of those games on the PS2, and here in America we only got like 3 of them (Adventures of Darwin, Drive to Survive and the other I don't remember). Europe were more lucky though, they got like 1/3 of those games. They are all budget titles, but many of them are very unique and actually fun.
Funnily enough, even though the US didn't get Everblue, we did get its sequel, Everblue 2. Endless Ocean is also sort of a spiritual successor to Everblue, as in Japan it is even called Forever Blue.
Demolition Girl was made by 505, they also made another game called Deep Water (PAL Version) and it has barely any presence online from what i’ve found. I actually own it and was curious to know why I have never seen it in someone else’s collection
Great vid and wonderful gems you brought to light! My personal “why did this not come out here?!” is the Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection, a Japan-only collection of all arcade iterations of the Darkstalkers franchise, plus a few remixes combining all versions of characters into one playable mode and the only time you can play a new character Dee. What makes this most egregious is Capcom brought out a less than stellar collection in 2013 meant to gauge interest in the series for another sequel, and when it didn’t sell as phenomenally as they wanted, they blamed the fans, which makes no sense as the fans were the ones who bought it despite numerous collections throughout the years and lack of support from the company. To this day, I keep imploring Capcom to bring this collection to modern platforms and updated visuals and net play to truly give the series a chance to shine.
I worry about you MJ.....first Gal Gun and now demolition girl! 🤣🤣🤣 You can't say anything about Reggie and his little dolls now haha. Great video dude!!.
There's a weird but very cool survival horror game from Capcom which I owned back in the day. It's called Gregory Horror Show: Soul Collector. I was pretty surprised when I realised the game is Japanese and PAL only. I guess growing up in a PAL region had it's pros!
Xyanide Resurrection was a must-have on PSP and that's a hill I'm willing to die on. Still very much play it to this day. It has its issues, locked 30 is a little annoying, and some of the levels are needlessly difficult (but managable), but the good faaar outweighs the bad. Fantastic rail-shoot-em-up with a surprisingly up-there skill ceiling.
Demolition girl is one of those games that you only mention to your friends 😆and you never play again and nice pun at the end. And I also think you mentioned demolition girl a while back in a pickups video.
Ah finally some covers and cases that look normal to me. 😂 Edit: How was demolition girl on rated 3+?😂 I could barely contain my laughter. Zombie zone, 15+ rating is weird usually you get a 3, 7, 12, 16 and 18 age ratings.
I thought I was the only one that went to the trouble of importing these. If you do a second video (and you have these) be sure to cover Battle Construction Vehicles (terrible but in a good way) Altered Beast, Zombie Virus, Shinibido, Gregory Horror Show, Akira Psycho Ball, Global Defence Force, Sword of Destiny, Maken Shao, Glass Rose, Zombie Virus, Michigan: Report from Hell and Earrache Extreme Metal Racing (absolutely dreadful.) Shinobido plays excellently.
Endless Ocean reminds me of Treasures of the Deep on PS1. I really liked that game but I only ever had a demo. It was different, and kind of slow paced, but I found it fun all those years ago.
Awesome video as always! The idea of a giant woman in a video game is interesting 🤔 but clearly it was to weird for North America where most gamers want to play call of duty till the end of time
A lot of those games seem to be from the Simple 2000 Series(Extreme budget releases), have in mind that the European ports where made by 505 Game-street that did such a piss poor job of translating and porting the games to the PAL standard that added new bugs that weren't present on the original or even removed content to save time translating it.
There are so many of these, some that don't really make sense like Wipeout Pulse which I think was EU only. Others I'm surprised made it out of Japan at all, niche titles and shooters, not that I'm complaining because we missed out on so many other games like the countless RPGs that didn't make it to PAL territories. A lot of these have gone on to be pretty collectible, like Michigan Report From Hell or the 'Zombie Hunter' Zombie Attack sort-of sequels. Anything published by 'Essential Games' will often go for a premium because of the niche title, low print run thing. Oh, and Street Golfer is clearly based on the video for Dinosaur Jr's Feel The Pain.
Demolition Girl for the PS2 is a documentary. The Japanese Military is all about protecting the world from 40 feet women or 12.192 meters, with stiff controls. Bonsai!
The Sword of Etheria seems like a kick-ass game. Like, how many hack and slash or beat em ups can let you attack your enemies with your team hot potato style?
Something about PS2 just makes it one of my all time favorites. Just a massive library of so many games and wacky obscure stuff. GameCube and OG Xbox didn't come close to that amount of games.
their are 2 ps2 games that i always wanted to play but never came to north america & they were zombie vs ambulance & michigan.i saw them on tv where someone was showing them & both looked really cool michigan had really good reviews on it & zombie vs ambulance was said to get kinda repetitive but was still really fun
Runabout 3 was one of my favourite PS2 games back in the day - totally ridiculous and still fun to play now. It's actually part of a series, the first being Felony 11-79 and then the second being Super Runabout on the Dreamcast I believe. Really fun games!
Helpful review if at least to see what else is out there that we will not get to play because of region locks. I would love to see more of these in the future.
Makes perfect sense to take measurements before shooting tranquilizers. They need to approximate her weight in order to dose the tranquilizer correctly.
I saw someone on twitch playing the 50 ft. woman game! yeah it was super weird lol. that Konami action game I've heard of one of the songs wound up in Dance Dance Revolution back in the day... weird that we never got the game proper though, it seems fun! Weird that Europe got all these Japanese imports but we didn't! (definitely keeping my eye out for those for my Japanese PS2, though!!)
Brilliant video im watching on nightshift demolition girl i thought ive seen it all but i obv haven't yet if i see this going have pick it up if cheap i doubt the sold many copys
This was a fun watch, I can't wait to see Metal Jesus's thoughts on Resident Evil Survivor Code Veronica and Altered Beast, cause both of those are oddities if anything on Imports on the PS2 we didn't here in the West.
Just some random thoughts of mine. When Konami actually made games. Also that mech game looked interesting as soon as it was on screen and you can tell it controled very good. The arcade racer look like it ran at 15 frames a second. That ocean game does sound cool. One thing though didn't you show 10 games in the beginning but only did 9 of those?
The Game Runabiut is a Sequel of Super Runabout from Dreamcast. But it looks a mess on Playstation 2 o.O My Fav was the transforming car from Men in Black
I remember seeing Demolition Girl in the store but never bought it. I'd love a list like this for American games that never got released here in Europe.
The golf street game seems like a really cool idea. Sucks that it sucks, but I the problem is obviously the developers and not the idea. Still a cool obscure game to own.
Well...you've gotta take her measurements before you shoot her full of tranquilizers because you need to know how strong of a dose she needs to make her pass out. ...that sounded way more skeevy than I intended.
I would put Gran Turismo Concept and GT4: Prologue on this list as well. Both great (albeit small compared to the mainline Gran Turismo game) games that did not get a release in North America.
