26. Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)🎮 Another great PS2 platformer. I'm still amazed I managed to miss this entire franchise in its day. I think I have a slight preference for the 1st game, but that's really my bias for level based platformers showing. But great game, would recommend.
27. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (PS2)🎮 This was just a rental back in the day, but my impression for this was VERY high. I would have said this is one of the greatest games ever made, based of 1 or 2 rentals. I still enjoyed replaying it, but it has a lot more issues than I remember.
Combat kinda... sucks? Its pretty repetitive and trying to add variety to your actions just kinda kills you late into the game. Its also got really awful performance on the PS2. Constantly drops frames and chugs in basically every scene. I also soft locked the game and had to restart a doomed save.
BUT I still think its fun enough, just not greatest of all time territory. Level traversal and puzzle solving are all really good. I like the story telling, even if the Prince kind of creeps me out at times. Still a recommend from me, but I think the PC version is just better. So play it there.
Sly 2, cont. I think my biggest gripe was with the extra characters. They really needed better traversal options to feel as good as Sly did. If they had, I think this game would have been close to perfect.