20 Severely Underrated PS1 Games You Totally Missed

4. Battle Hunter

https://youtu.be/2lNhUf7pwQ8 In the later years of the PSX€™s heyday, a lot of €œbudget title€ publishers began to crop up. The developers and their games were a huge mixed bag in terms of quality. Regardless, it was always fun to be in a grocery store and find a random anime styled game looking you in the face for $10. Sometimes you got a fun novelty, but in the case of Battle Hunter you get a seriously underrated game. Battle Hunter is a tactical RPG that incorporates dice and cards into the mix. That might sound trite nowadays, but it€™s integrated in a very natural way. The gameplay consists of taking missions from various clients who want a relic hidden in a dungeon. Dungeons are randomly generated, and upon entering you have to contend with other Hunters and the dungeons monsters. Relics are hidden in treasure chests, with the key relic hidden among other random ones. If another hunter gets the key relic, you have to chase them down and eliminate their hit-points to get the item before they escape. The combat itself is fun; you have a selection of number cards which you use to modify dice rolls. The dice rolls with modifier cards determine the amount of damage you do or defend against. What€™s really great, is the multi-player aspect, where you can have up to four players pick a hunter, then pass the controller around while trying to find the relic. You and your pal(s) can choose to either cooperate or compete for it, too. Battle Hunter is available in the PS Store, and used copies are cheap and plentiful - it's the very definition of an overlooked gem.