Volume 4 for the PlayStation features: Pac-Land (1984) The Return of Ishtar (1986) Genpei Touma-den (1986) – renamed The Genji and the Heike Clans outside of Japan. Assault (1988) Assault Plus (1988) – as a hidden game. Ordyne (1988)
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Not the best game selection. Ordyne is the best one.
they've had better game lineups
What a wild set of games here. The Return of Ishtar is its own beast that I should give a chance someday but for now I just like jumping in and being overwhelmed. Same with The Genji and the Heiki Clans, going in without a decent guide is very scary but also cool. Assault is a genuinely neat tank game I had no idea about before playing this, Pac-Land is fun until it isn't, and Ordyne I kind of don't care about but it's also cool. Aesthetic-wise, this one really feels like it goes all out with the unique environments for each game, even if it's still mostly the same presentation. Also, I swear I keep discovering new little things in this series, like how you can strafe with the shoulder buttons? Pac-Man even does a goofy-ass animation for it. You can also turn the robot secretary into a human woman? It's scary, so I'm probably not gonna do that again.
Namco are cowards and need to put more of these on other collections. Looking at you Genpei Toma Den and Ordyne.
Solid selection of games here, and you can't go wrong with Pac-Land. Has the only English version of Genpei Toumaden, too, if you're into that.