Welcome again to The PlayStation Report! We’re spending a while working our means by way of Sony’s listing of IP to find out how wholesome they’re. This time, we’ll be tackling each E and F. Not a complete lot occurring with these letters, and what’s right here is fairly properly off the overwhelmed path, for essentially the most half. However generally that may make it simpler to maintain alive, proper? Who doesn’t love bizarre PlayStation video games? Let’s get began. It’s time for The PlayStation Report!
Echochrome
We kick issues off with a recreation that I truthfully haven’t thought of in ages. Echochrome is a puzzle recreation that began life on the PlayStation 3. It’s all about messing round with views, and shifting this little dummy character round in some mind-bending environments. It’s like if somebody made a online game out of M. C. Escher’s illustrations.
Well being ranking: Mainly Useless
Echochrome by no means precisely took the world by storm, however it did carry out properly sufficient to get two followups. Echoshift hit PSPin 2009, after which Exhoshift II got here out in 2010 as a PlayStation Transfer-enabled launch. Keep in mind PlayStation Transfer? Ahh, the great ol days when everybody was attempting to make their very own Wii Distant. Anyway, Echochrome was a neat experiment, however I’m fairly certain it’s cooked.
Everyone’s Golf/Scorching Photographs Golf
You most likely know this one higher as Scorching Photographs Golf, however for some cause it’s referred to as Everyone’s Golf now. Effectively, it’s at all times been referred to as that in Japan and Europe, so perhaps they simply needed to make issues extra uniform. Regardless, Everyone’s Golf is a improbable strategy to golf. It was initially developed by Camelot, and was a reasonably big success. Foolish golf video games are enjoyable. Who knew?
Well being ranking: May very well be Higher
The latest recreation on this collection was Everyone’s Golf VR again in 2019. Because it’s now 2025, it’s formally time for some concern. I do not suppose this collection is lifeless by any stretch, however Sony has been turning their noses up at their B-tier franchises fairly a bit currently, so it’s doable that this one’s simply going to be on ice till one of many fits determines that individuals truly like these video games and so they might most likely make some cash in the event that they produced extra. There was a 6-year hole between releases from 2011 to 2017, so this sort of wait isn’t utterly unprecedented, however it nonetheless makes me nervous.
EverQuest
It’s loopy to suppose again on it now, however EverQuest quest to be THE on-line recreation to play. It principally introduced the idea of an MMO to the lots, and opened the door to the likes of World of Warcraft within the course of. In case you weren’t round throughout its heyday, it’s a fantasy MMO the place you group up with varied individuals on-line to carry out duties, full quests, and the like. It was massively profitable.
Well being ranking: Fairly Good
EverQuest isn’t wherever close to as widespread because it as soon as was, however it’s nonetheless alive and kicking! There have been sequels, spinoffs, comedian books, and extra, however it’s my understanding that it’s the unique recipe that’s nonetheless on the market retaining individuals busy. Its most up-to-date growth, The Outer Brood, was simply launched in December 2024, and the sport exhibits no indicators of stopping anytime quickly.
Extermination
Keep in mind Extermination? Certain you do! Effectively, truly you most likely don’t. Or at the least you didn’t till you noticed the field artwork right here. Extermination was a 2001 Survival Horror recreation for the PlayStation 2 that had a little bit of a tough trip to market. When it landed although, it was met with usually favorable criticism due to its spectacular visuals and pleasurable gameplay.
Well being ranking: Mainly Useless
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Contemplating this was an unique IP survival horror recreation, a style that has tendency to promote fairly properly, it’s truthfully shocking that Spony by no means went again to this properly. It’s doable they don’t truly personal the model. It was developed by an organization referred to as Deep House, which now not exists, however it was co-developed by Sony themselves, and so they printed the factor, too. I’ve to think about the crowded survival horror market and this recreation’s forgettable field artwork most likely had one thing to do with its everlasting shelving, however I assume we’ll by no means know. Extermination has been exterminated.
The Eye of Judgment
Earlier than PlayStation Transfer, Sony had a digicam peripheral for the PS2 referred to as EyeToy. This advanced into the PlayStation Eye for PS3, and the killer app for the factor was The Eye of Judgment. It’s a collectible card recreation (which was all the fad on the time) the place you place playing cards in entrance of the digicam and so they come to life in your TV display screen. It’s truthfully a reasonably cool piece of tech, and for individuals who preferred collectible card video games, it was a very good time.
Well being ranking: Mainly Useless
The Eye of Judgment acquired one followup on the PSP in 2010 referred to as The attention of Judgment: Legends, however that appears to be about it for the model. This does not appear to be the type of factor Sony needs to pursue anymore, and truthfully, who can blame them? Collectible card video games will be huge cash makers, however they require an honest quantity of upkeep. Though, with the rise of on-line digital card video games, perhaps there’s an opportunity Sony will take one other crack at this with out the digicam? I doubt it, however something’s doable!
Fats Princess
That is a type of video games I type of can’t imagine exists. In a world the place there’s a complete sect of the web that has devoted their lives to complaining about how girls in video video games aren’t horny sufficient, a recreation primarily based round an explicitly chubby princess is downright odd. It’s principally about feeding cake to a captured princess, thereby making her fatter and fatter. It’s bizarre.
Well being ranking: Mainly Useless
Fats Princess truly caught on to a level for some time there. Finest I can inform, the final launch was 2015’s Fats Princess Adventures for PS4. I can’t shake the sensation that within the present panorama, this is not the type of recreation that will actually fly with trendy audiences. I think about Sony is simply as completely happy to let this one slowly fade away.
Folklore
That is one other a type of instances the place I’m not 100% what Sony’s stake within the model is. Folklore was developed by Sport Republic, which closed its doorways again in 2011. Sony printed the sport themselves in all areas, which makes me factor they’ve some stake in it, however that’s hardly strong proof that it’s theirs. Regardless, Folklore was a PlayStation 3 motion RPG with a definite Celtic flare.
Well being ranking: Very Useless
Folklore type of flew beneath the radar again in its day. It reviewed okay, however it simply by no means actually caught on. There was apparently some sequel discuss at one level, however since Folklore itself didn’t carry out so properly, these have been all cancelled. With the unique studio behind the sport closed, and the sport itself largely forgotten, this one’s about as lifeless as recreation franchises get.
Frequency/Amplitude
Frequency is superior, and whilst you’ve little question heard of the video games it will definitely advanced into, the unique launch is a bit on the obscure aspect. It’s a rhythm recreation the place a collection of notes journey towards the display screen in an enormous tube that it’s important to rotate round. Because the notes strategy the entrance of the display screen, it’s important to zap them to the rhythm. Every a part of the cylinder represents a unique a part of the tune, just like the drums, synth, guitars, and so forth. Once you play sufficient of a observe appropriately, that a part of the tune will proceed enjoying by itself for just a few measures, and the purpose is to complete the tune with as a lot music enjoying as doable.
Well being ranking: Mainly Useless
Frequency acquired itself a sequel referred to as Amplitude. The large change in that recreation was making the playfield flat. So the notes got here towards the display screen on a flat street and also you needed to play them to the rhythm of the tune. And if that sounds an terrible lot like Guitar Hero, that’s as a result of it’s! Frequency and Amplitude have been developed for Sony by Harmonix, and ideas they created for these video games fashioned the premise for Guitar Hero, which then led to Rock Band. These video games have a complete lineage of their very own although, and whereas their DNA will be traced again right here, they aren’t truly part of the identical collection. As for Frequency, Sony hasn’t touched the concept because the complete Guitar Hero craze occurred. Which is a horrible disgrace, as a result of there’s nonetheless plenty of enjoyable available with this sort of recreation. Sadly, I’m pretty assured this one’s lifeless for good.
And that wraps issues up for this version of The PlayStation Report. There’s plenty of “Mainly Deads” on right here, however it’s nonetheless rather less grim than regular! Be a part of us subsequent time the place we’ll be tackling the letter G, the place there are at the least three genuinely properly preferred and really a lot nonetheless alive franchises to cowl. That needs to be a pleasant change of tempo! See you subsequent time!
