Primal oozes early 2000s and it's so good. The opening scene in the club that's reminiscing of teen horror movies of that era, the character design, everything. I remember getting it back when i was a teen and i really loved it. I'm not sure why it's so unknown though, i remember seeing TV commercials for it quite often back when it came out, but then later on, whenever i'd mention the game, no one knew what i was talking about.

Ha. I swear the fact that old games used to take risks and try new things really makes them hold up better than a lot of current games will do in 20 years.

PK is an actual comic that has the same story as in this game, including the shield.

Heck yeah, Primal's on here! Coincedence that the PK game is on here as well- was just reading one of the Premium pocketbook rereleases. If you don't know, the European Disney comic scene is *ehquite* big and Paperinik, known in English as the Duck Avenger. It started out with Donald finding the hiding place of a previous-era gentleman thief named Phantomius, and based on Phantomius' equipment Donald develops a kind of escapist character alter ego to get back at annoyances in his life. Over time he became a more outright heroic character. Now, the normal Duck Avenger comics are quite light-hearted, but Paperinik New Adventures take a quite more serious tone. The main villain is an alien empire that essentially lobotomizes or zombifies their victims, then uses the resulting "Coolflames" as these wretched slave creatures are known as manual labor and cannon fodder. One of their main enemies is an alien lady with a *big* mohawk and the power of a star who can manipulate energy and, to a degree, matter. Her name is Xadhoom, which means "Creditor" in her language, and she has vowed genocide on the entire empire. She's one of the good guys. There's other stories involving geothermic manipulation, organized crime and corruption, time police, ethics between androids/artificial intelligence and humanity in the future, and more. There's more than enough levity too, though. I'm saying all this to give an idea of how truncated the game you played is compared to its source material This channel did a very good look at the comics and its sequel series: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNRmY5hhzMzeeKc.html The guy here played the game too but he's a lot more critical of it. Anyway, back to Primal: For me, i thought the moment-to-moment gameplay was alright, servicable, with the water realm being the worst. I really like the characters, writing, atmosphere and world at large, great performances and animations to the characters. May the voice of Scree, Andreas Katsulas, rest in peace. Really surprised to see Pryzm as well. I found it in a game store sometime last year, had *never* heard of it before and got curious. I played it, thought it had its charm, but while i didn't hate it... i didn't enjoy playing it. Found it kind of annoying.

Pirates lobk looks good, as well as Primal. I'm surprised you didn't include Predator concrete jungle in this video. It's one of my favorite ps2 games and its really expensive to buy here in the US. Thanks for another great video

Prisoner of War was a difficult, but rewarding hidden gem I loved as a kid. Peter Jackson's King Kong is possibly the greatest and most enjoyable King Kong game ever made with incredibly fun gameplay. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is immensely engaging and a gem that is slept on. Predator Concrete Jungle is another recommendation as playing as a Predator from the movie series in such a dynamic setting blew my mind as a child.

I played the hell out of Police 24/7 in the local arcade back in the day. When you say the mechanics don't work that well with the ducking, I can confirm you are correct. My knees took one hell of a beating and I couldn't get too far before it hurt to play 🤣

you guys are charming as hell and should have way more subscribers

When skulls and bone cant even do as good as a 20+ year old game.

Man....party girls? Gave me some great lulz and i am actually looking forward to try it 😅😂 Thanks bro 👍🏼

2:21 He has a backpack, what better exclusive to carry with him everything you find? 😂

Yay! Of all the games I recommended, Primal is by far my favourite and it was so disliked on release. The game is great, and I really wish we could get a remake/remaster, or even the sequel that got shelved. This vid had some more excellent recommendations that I'm gunna have to "find" and "definitely buy" to try out.

No Psi-Ops? Are we considering that to be a not so hidden gem or did you just criminally underrate it by not including it?

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i can't carry anymore :/ lol

What about Punisher PS2

Primal is one of those games that sounds really good on paper, a fantasy action adventure focusing on exploration and combat, but is actually absolutely atrocious. Fighting is garbage, the transitioning between regular and monster form takes forever, there are the obligatory confusing and annoying water levels, the story and setting are 2000s' teenie cringe, exploring and upgrading/new monster forms are unrewarding, the gargoyle is even more sluggish than the embarrassingly edgy metal maiden and so on. The result is a s#!tty game that's completely overrated and devoid of any fun. A true hidden phlegm.