A surprise posting by the Playstation Blog through their weekly post on the Drop, two new psoneclassics coming to the network before the landmark release of Legend of Dragoon next week.
If you've ever dreamed of shooting drug dealers in a mech, this is for you.
Tak 2 for you! (Tuesday)
We’ve known that Darkstalkers has been coming for a while, but Tak 2 : The staff of dreams is a PS2 game that hadn’t been hinted to yet. Perhaps we’ll start getting more surprises with PS2 classics being incognito until their release like PSone classics were.
Tak 2 was released in 2004 for PS2, and was a charming little platformer in the vain of Donkey Kong (as you can use animals to help you traverse obstacles). This game was released for everything at the time and received decent reviews (it’s sitting at a 73.25% rating on Gamerankings.com). This looks like a decent little platformer for kids as it looks really colourful.
Eyes on the text cowboy.
Darkstalkers is another Capcom fighting game that’s set to be released as a PSoneClassic if the ESRB is to be believed (personally I’m not sure anymore). This just after last week’s release of Street Fighter 3 Alpha from Capcom’s no.1 fighting franchise. For someone who’s never played a Darkstalkers game before it looks very similar to the art style of the Marvel Vs. Capcom games (one and two), and I’m sure most people will only know one character from the series, Morrigan, who just dresses sexy all the time to get your attention in the X vs. Capcom games (don’t they know that Iron Man is who everyone picks all the time?). Gameplay does look fun, and