“As much as I would love to drag you through the trenches of some of the bewildering garbage the genre had on this system” was something I recently wrote before getting back to what was my task at hand, but maybe the intention behind this is worth revisiting. The PSX library is host to numerous fighting game gems, some that were under appreciated for their time or previously unknown due to their lack of localization. But it also contains landfill-sized hazard sites of absolute trash. The PSX sits squarely in the post-Virtua Fighter boom of not only 3D fighters, but 3D gaming as a whole. Much like how Street Fighter 2 birthed imitators left, right, and center, the PSX was in the perfect position to funnel absolute waste into the players hands. But you may wonder why I am asking you to play them. Fair enough question, we only have […]