This was back when developers could take chances with games. I miss the ps2 era where you really had no idea what a game would be like and was often pleasantly surprised by how good a game was that only you and a few hundred people have played.

I've been saying it for years: This is a legitimately solid PS2 game, even without the benefit of the franchise attached to it. For fans of GitS, it's got a great voice cast and a neat little story, as well. A lot of people are still sleeping on this one, which should keep the prices from becoming too insane... for now, anyway!

the soundtrack, the soundtrack is so on point with cyberpunk techno, everything is perfect with this game they need to make something like this again

This was so underrated, to me it strikes me as another case (Like God Hand for instance) where journalists didn't engage enough with the mechanics and wrote a middling review that kinda damaged a pretty good product. To me, this and Oni stands as some of the coolest forgotten gems.

One of those games I completely forget that I enjoyed so much! The music, traversal and voice acting were top notch, especially when compared with other anime licence games at the time.

Fascinating how GITS' games are as varied as the anime adaptations in this way!

Man, it's seriously a shame how Cavia got shafted so hard at every turn. The games they made seriously lacked from budget but they had some real dedicated passion put into them that makes them truly stand out.

This game looks so nice. The sleek cyberpunk art style with the early 2000’s electronic music is just incredible, and the choreography does a fantastic job of making it feel so badass. Legitimately a great game.

Now do Ghost in the Shell vs. Oni.

I would love to see you talk about the Ghost in the shell PSone game.

I'd like it noted that this video has five uninterrupted minutes of praise for a Cavia game, which I believe is a world record.

These visuals are incredible for a ps2!

I have a soft spot for the Stand Alone Complex anime, and seeing this video about the PS2 game is greatly nostalgic

Thing about that game I will always remember and do want in other games: The cool jump (or dodge if you like to call it that). Really. That jump just feels so damn good.

love how your vids are brief while still being concise and perfectly elaborated. great channel

Always good to see a video from you. I like how you cover all these games nobody else talks about. I remember hearing about this game back in the day and then seeing the mediocre review scores and then forgetting about it. I'll keep my eye out for a copy.

GitS had some pretty good games, the PS1 tachikoma game was killer and the psp game was pretty ambitious

Thank god for another video. I love you voice main. Mainly watch while eating and its so relaxing. Id wish u publish more often but still enjoying your content:)

I always get excited when I see that minimme has got a new video out :D Keep them coming bro, I love your stuff

You should try out Bullet Witch, which was made by the exact same team. It's a lot less polished and a lot more, well badly designed, but it's definitely an interesting experiment about Cavia trying to profit off that early 2000s DMC/Bloodrayne angst (even tho Drakengard would have been perfect for that) and there's some fun to be had from its jankiness

love this coverage. I wasn't even aware of this game, but got damn am i ready to play it now. gr8 work m8

Stand Alone Complex was a great anime. I somehow missed this game back in the day! So thank you for covering it! Great video as always :)

Just discovered this channel. Love these videos

Great video, I’ve seen a lot of folks talk about the PS1 but never this one. I’ll have to check it out!

The game is pretty good in my opinion and very underrated

Keep on Keepin on Miniyou

Walked in gamestop randomly in like 2005 & i think this game was like $20 or sumn. Never been a heavy gamer but i loved watchin gits late night on adult swim so i copped it. One of the best shooters ive ever played but the overall ambience of the game was sick. Felt like i was playing the anime 😂

gg mate, have a sub, i remember back in the day trying to convince my mates to try it out, such a classic and GITS is one of the goats anyway

I feel like there’s a whole library of forgotten Ps2 games that would take decades to cover

I was also going to recommend taking a look at Bungie's forgotten GitS-inspired game, Oni, but now I see you noticed someone else asking for the same review... I'm glad you took notice, I think that game'll be right up your alley 🙂.

Nice one man, GITS is pretty much the only animu I've ever been able to enjoy, on that note, when is the RUBY in the MALONE: WET COMPLEX review?!

This is basically Oni 2 and it’s so great for it. It’s a ton of fun, wish they made more

Great video as always

That 2nd picture is absolutely gorgeous, very good exposure

Something new I need in my PS2 collection. Thanks minimme!

Your reviews are such a fresh air! Especially compared to those "worst tie in game everrrr????" negative reviews I used to binge years ago. I pretty much stopped watching game reviews (there's only so many ways of shitting on action 52, it's all recycled stuff by now) but have been enjoying your stuff for a few years now and it's so chill to watch a positive yet critical video on games I've never even heard of

Man I loved this game so much as a kid. Ghost in the shell is just great in every regard. The other games have charm too

I loved that you covered this game after such a long time of seeing it mostly being ignored. I notoced that you didnt really use the dodge mechanic in any of the footage. Making me wonder if you noticed it, as its really finnicky about when it works.

10:40 The Buffy the Vampire Slayer game for the Original Xbox is really good at accurately portraying Buffy's canon power level within the game. Buffy's increased strength and combat ability only put her at a level with her supernatural foes and its one of those combat systems where basically everything you can do to the enemy, they can also do to you - if anyone plays it I definitely recommend playing it on the hard difficulty. It's a really underrated, really really good beat-em-up game with some occasional horrible platforming.

I've been waiting. Can't wait to watch.

I’m positive I’ve searched for the watch order for Ghost in the Shell like 3 times, gotten three different suggestions, and then never sat down to try and get into it 😅

I love the vibe of this game the music, layout and VA work put me right in the GitS world

Would love to see more GITS games if you feel like covering them. Anime tie-in games that aren't just arena fighters are always interesting finds.

Ghost in the Shell's track record with tie-in games is surprisingly solid

As a recent ghost in the shell fan that is into upscaling emulated games, this recommendation is a no brainer for me

Man, I didn’t even know this existed and GITS SAC is definitely one of my favorite anime.

Getting this, thank you! Definitely want to see your take on the PSP game :)

I bought and played this during lockdown and I loved it. It's up there as one of my favourite PS2 games. As a DnB and sanodg fan the soundtrack is music to my ears and it's the main reason why I decided to check the game out in the first place.

This game, I love it. Played the demo back in the day and it stuck with me for a long time (didn't even bother to notice it's name. because childhood mentality.) but I never found it again. The HUD and everything all looked so modern back then, it made the game so cool

Thanks for showing me another cool game I wouldn't have known about. I'd be very interested in seeing one about the PSP game too

Great vid 👌🏾

oh my god minimme this is one of my favorite ps2 games

I really hope there'll be a next-gen Ghost in the Shell AAA single player game. Maybe a stealth-focused game like Phantom Pain.

I own this game and started to play it but didn’t get too far. Thanks for the review

Pretty fun looking game...love learning about different ps2 games.

Played all the GitS games since I adore that series. While I think the original PS1 game is probably the most fun overall, this one was also quite good and really felt like an episode of SAC. Really cool you did a video on it! Edit: Note about that PSP game. I remember having to cheat in order to complete it? I'm not sure if I was just missing something or not, but while it's mostly not an awful game, it's definitely the least good of the single player GitS games.

What amazes me about this channel is it shows how many retro games we don't know about just hidden away.

I had a ps2 demo/trailer disc that had extended game play trailers of a bunch of games, and this was one of the trailers I always wish I could have the game for, yet have never once seen it in store

The legend is back

I wouldn't mind seeing a review of the PSP game

Man watching this gameplay back… I played so many hours of this game. Doing every difficulty and getting all the different skins. Forgot about the hacking! The last battle was great too! Flawed but great! Would love to see a remake

Holy guacamole someone else has played this game! I used to play it all the time when I was a kid and loved playing as a robot against my friends haha

With you enjoying this game I fully recommend Peripeteia on steam. There's a demo out right now and it feels massive. Feels a lot like GitS, from music to aethestics. Its super free in how you play and you really can do absolutely whatever you want with traversal

I have this game and even though I beat it at least twice, I still go back and have another go at it. I agree with you on some of the points you mentioned, but all in all, it's a fun action game :)

That was my first game on the ps2 when i bought it, for the time was the best game i've ever played coming from ps1 slim. It brings me back memories and the best thing about this game is the split screen.

I loved this back when it was new. The music, the animation, the gameplay being very fun once you get the hang of the quirky controls. I remember the X-Play review literally calling it "crap". The same devs went on to make BulletWitch for the Xbox 360. BulletWitch was less polished than this, but it was way more ambitious with large open levels with tons of physics objects that could be moved around with spells.

omg u played chill day by lakey inspired in the background 😍😮‍💨😮‍💨

I love games that have fun inventive mechanics that they complete forget for certain characters.

I bought this game because I was really into Ghost on the Shell, and played through it just once, there isn't much about this game to suck you in to replay it. Looking back, I wish the developers had leaned more into the superhuman moving and fighting aspects of the game rather than the "run & gun a bit of clunky platforming". The following generation of consoles gave us Mirror's Edge, which would be a terrific point of reference for a Ghost in the Shell game.

This is one of my favorite PS2 games. I have very good memories playing this game.

I rented this game like 5 times back in the day. I didn't even like playing it all that much but I loved the 2nd Gig series airing at the time and the vibes of the game.

I remember this on the E3, the good old ones, I was soo hyped, I love this game I don't care what the press have to say

I had this game and it was really cool. It had its issues with controls sometimes, but it felt like if I was playing through an episode of the anime.

Never even heard of this game, great video on it

I'm over here emulating games and saw Ghost in The Shell has a PS2 game, looked at the gameplay and it looked solid so I'll play it.

I still can't deal with the fact that SAC came out when the PS2 was current gen. I refuse to believe that SAC, a series so far ahead of its time (still to this day) is almost as old as me. Also, I kid you not, if this game was released today in the exact same state (minus the graphics, obviously, those would be improved) it would be widely loved and hailed as a great game.

Ghost in the Shell, PSP, video essays, that sounds like a proper good night in and i need it 💛

Totally agree, this game is a blast. I just wish Motoko's character model resembled her appearance in the anime more closely and that the story was told better. I notice you didn't even mention the multiplayer which was also pretty good for the time.

Hard to believe this game is from 2004, the movements are so smooth

I know sanodg from Konami’s bemani games but I wasn’t aware that he scored this game. Neat.

Therapist: minimme Batou thumbnail isn't real, he can't hurt you. minimme Batou thumbnail:

Oh wow, I've 100% forgotten about this one. I still have it in a box somewhere. Maybe I should dig it up and see if I still enjoy it as much as I remembered doing.

Every PS2 game of a known title is underrated apparently.

A unique game from the legendary PS2 era. Imagine minimme doing a "Lifeline:Voice Action Adventure" review.

I'm so sad that the free to play Ghost in the Shell game closed the servers. It was an amazing game

This game is so slick and cool. The ost, the art an level design. ❤

i played this growing up and it definately shaped my music interest

Dude this seems awesome. Idk how I've never seen this one before...

I loved the anime even more than the movie and I know need to get my hands on this :D thanks for sharing!

finally someone talks abt this, love this game

Never heard about this game, the platforming mechanics in particular caught my interest. Just curious, what's the control scheme like? You've mentioned that there's a dedicated ledge grab button (something that I personally like) and I'm just trying to picture what jumping and climbing is like.

Very epic minimme

Would love to see you do a video on Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. That was a good one.

There was a PS1 game I once played the demo of, I remember it being a game where you primarily played in a tachikoma and could ride on walls and such.

I had this game and I replayed it countless of times because of how much I loved it

I loved this game. Thanks for reminding me about this and the PSP game. You should check the PSP game out too!

you've mentioned dragongarde. I need to play this now

Ghost in a shell snipers: *Exist* Jackals from halo2: Finally a worthy opponent!

Why have I never heard of this? Looks awesome!

Maaaaaaaaaaaaan I found this game back in Jan in a Forgotten PS2 games video and my mind was damn blown that there was a Ghost in the Shell PS2 game. Not only was it a Ghost game it had depth mechanics that gave me ONI vibes. I looked for the ISO online to play and played through to the bridge or dam with the giant helicopter firing on you with the two cannons also firing on you boss fight. I love the mechanics and wish they made more. Gunplay is real nice. It's nearly that perfect 3rd person adrenaline action game I wanted at the time, but it was indeed a good fix. Very sad that the multiplayer game was killed because i played so much of that beta and it had some great polish. Heartbroken. Hopefully someone will be up to the task to make a Ghost in the Shell game that's not some spin off or online multiplayer game or whatever. Just a quality anime cel shaded 90s 3rd person action single player Ghost in the Shell game that is a remake of Stand Alone Complex. Linear open levels. Don't have to be open world at all. A AAA quality focused Japanese game. I'm gonna go finish this game later. I'm playing Tales Arise and Star Wars The Old Republic, yet PS2, PSP, and old PC games grab my attention. Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2. anyone? up on Abandonware and it's that top tier 90s fantasy action adventure PC game. So much fun. So much mechanic depth for a booba brand. Turn your volume down on the menu screen though 😂