Sony Japan Studio: 28 Best Games They Helped Create
11. Tokyo Jungle
Co-developed by: Crispy's!
Similar to The Last Guy, Japan Studio (working with indie dev Crispy's!) took on the tired premise scattered across countless action games, a post-apocalyptic devastated cityscape with humanity in ruins, and gave it a baffling odd yet fascinating twist.
Unlike The Last Guy though, this is blatantly a survival action game, however, unlike most sub-genre efforts, all humanity has disappeared. Which means you play as a series of animals: from a devastating elephant...to a spunky pomeranian?
The pitch is strange, and the game takes a while to get going to layout its foundation, but once revealed, becomes a consuming cycle, where you must upgrade your creatures stats, so that the next generation of animals grows stronger and improved..
It essential Darwin's Theory: The Video Game, with simple but solid combat, decent stealth, and addictive Rogue-lite mechanics (before it was popular). The game had dire sales in the states, although did well enough in Japan to land a mobile adaptation (which is possibly the better market fit for the game).
If you skim by this one on PS Now, give it a try...good or bad, you won't be quick to forget it.