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#24. Shadow Hearts

The tone of the original Shadow Hearts is what I look for in an old PS1 RPG. This came out on the PS2 but it's really a PS1 game. There's nothing systems-wise that stands out in SH1 but the feel of moving through those lovely prerendered environments and hearing that music and those sound effects is top notch. I ripped through this game the week Pennyblood was announced and had an absolute blast despite it being pretty archaic mechanically.

#23. Final Fantasy Tactics

Blame yourself or God. FFT's character builds are the best in the genre and the maneuvering political story is really strong. You can really get lost trying to build out the perfect guy. The classes are wildly unbalanced and that kinda makes it more fun -- but if you want perfect balance there's mods for that too and those are also awesome. This game has been the star of the depressed chess genre for decades.

#22. F-Zero GX

Dear god this game is good. It might actually be perfect. As I say every year, no futuristic racing game has come out since that can even remotely compete with F-Zero GX. I've been playing the demo for this upcoming Kickstarter game called Aero GPX that is the closest I've seen in the 20 years since this game's release. I've grown a little tired of GX since there's not a lot to get out of racing the same tracks over and over, but it's undoubtedly one of the best games ever made.