My wife just surprised me with a new PSP battery after listening to me moan about not having one ever since reading PerfectDark’s most recent PSP article. After messing around with broken USB cables and jumping through hoops to un-spoof my old prome-2 firmware version for too long last night, I finally got ARK4 running and had a blast playing Wipeout Pure.
My favourite PSP game back in the day was probably Monster Hunter Freedom Unite… so many late nights spent playing that with friends in my freezing flat. There was something special about LAN parties with handheld games. I remember putting serious hours into Peace Walker and Dissidia too.
Now I want some game recommendations… tell me which games you loved on the PSP! I might even have a look around for some UMDs!
I like Valkyrie Profile Lenneth. It’s a turn-based RPG with a fighting game combat system. I enjoyed playing through the multiple paths of the narrative.
Turn based RPG with fighting game combat?! I can’t imagine what that looks like but I’m intrigued!
It’s an enhanced port of a PS2 game. Vanillaware made a few weird games like that, they were really well animated too.