Put PS3 Indie Gems Pain And Fat Princess On The New PlayStation Plus, You Cowards
To celebrate the recent news that Sony is changing how PlayStation Plus works and essentially combining it with PS Now, for this week’s indie spotlight we wanted to take a look at some gems from the PS3 era that deserve a second chance now that Sony is finally removing its fingers from its ears when it hears the words backwards compatibility.
This is a much harder task than it first appears. Instantly, games like Journey, Flower, and Noby Noby Boy come to mind as beloved indies, and then you quickly remember that they’ve all seen ports of some kind. Doesn’t feel like they need much of a spotlight, does it?
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This is true of many indies from the PS3 era - they’ve practically all been ported or upgraded since. Anything that hasn’t seen some sort of revival or port usually deserves to stay in the nether zone that is the PlayStation Store’s one-star filter, but after searching my brain far and wide for experiences that remain unplayable on anything but the PS3, I’ve finally come up with two, count ‘em two, obscure indies that deserve some love - Fat Princess and Pain.
“Hell yeah, Fat Princess and Pain!” is what I’m sure every single one of you are thinking, and you’re right to do so. If you’re not one of the five paid members of my very cool Fat Princess and Pain appreciation club, let me tell you why.
If either of these games rings even the slightest of bells, I’d bet it was Fat Princess. I’d go even further and bet that it’s not even because of the game itself. For reasons unbeknownst to man, Sony decided to make the titular royal one of the first known characters in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, which means that it’s now basically the only
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