10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)

Did you know that at one stage, Resident Evil was being ported to the GameBoy Color? That project didn’t ever finish because the task at hand was too great for the hardware, but it didn’t stop Capcom from wanting to drop their horror series into the hugely popular handheld gaming space.

Resident Evil Gaiden is often pointed and laughed at from a distance and perhaps quite rightfully so: it’s a strange mix of top-down exploration and, of all things, a first person timing-based battle system that’s got more in common with the likes of Undertale than modern Resi.

The music is tinny, the plot is nonsense and the game has a God awful save system that chooses for YOU when to save YOUR progress.

But it has this undeniable charm to it. The fixed-camera Resident Evil formula of the time was never going to work on a GameBoy so props to studio M4 for coming up with a different approach. Better yet, it’s one that surprisingly manages to retain some classic Resi staples in like trying to run past enemies to conserve your limited ammo and backtracking to areas with your new key.

That's about where the similarities to the core series end but very few gaming franchises that are still going strong today have curios quite like Resident Evil Gaiden.