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PlayStation Portable games

  • Dissidia Final FantasyDissidia Final Fantasy began as a game about Disney characters fighting.
  • Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy is both a prequel and a remake of the game before it. It launched on PSP in March 2011.
  • Silent Hill: OriginsSilent Hill: Origins was rewritten in one week after its first version became a dark comedy.
  • Gensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no TokiGensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki sends three heroes back a hundred years. A monster wakes every century.
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3Thirty-nine fighters. That is how large the playable cast of Street Fighter Alpha 3 grew on its biggest portable edition. The game itself began in 1998 as a Capcom arcade title. It was the third and final installment of the Street Fighter…
  • Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 chose the Breakout-style Block Block over Super Street Fighter II.
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VIICrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII explains a death that fans of the 1997 game already knew.
  • God of War: Ghost of SpartaGod of War: Ghost of Sparta began as a puzzle hidden behind a trophy. Players who earned the platinum trophy in God of War III were pointed to a website, spartansstandtall.com. The page showed torrential rain falling into a body of water,…
  • Silent Hill: Shattered MemoriesThe 2009 horror game Silent Hill: Shattered Memories has no combat at all. Harry can only run, hide and use flares.
  • Tokimeki Memorial (video game)Konami, known for the punishing shooter Gradius, made a high school dating game.
  • Durarara!!A headless rider on a black motorcycle searches Ikebukuro for her stolen head. She is a dullahan from Irish folklore.
  • Persona 3Persona 3 asks its player to press a gun-shaped device against their own head and fire. The device is called an Evoker, and the shot summons a Persona, a physical form of the shooter's psyche. Atlus developed this role-playing game, which…
  • Puella Magi Madoka MagicaPuella Magi Madoka Magica hid its dark story behind cute, pastel marketing on purpose.
  • Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II replaced experience points with stats that grow by use. Its designer felt it went too far.
  • Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (video game)The Harvey Birdman video game borrowed its courtroom system from Phoenix Wright.
  • Star Wars: The Force UnleashedIn Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a small child pulls Darth Vader's lightsaber from his grip.
  • MystMyst, a 1993 adventure game from the studio Cyan, opens with a book. The player, an unnamed person, finds a volume titled Myst and reads its detailed description of an island. Resting a hand on the last page carries the player into that…
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace WalkerMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a 2010 stealth game from Kojima Productions, published by Konami, and it was made for one of the smallest screens of its day, the PlayStation Portable. IGN's Greg Miller scored it 9.5 out of 10 and said it…
  • K-On!In a Japanese school-band anime, guitarist Yui Hirasawa had only ever played the castanets.
  • Final Fantasy (video game)Final Fantasy got its name because its creator planned to quit if it failed. Square was also facing bankruptcy in 1987.
  • Space InvadersSpace Invaders sped up as aliens vanished by accident, and its designer kept the quirk.
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the NightCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 1997 action role-playing game made by Konami for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Its most talked-about moment is a trick of architecture. Deep into the adventure, the entire castle turns upside…

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