You'll be able to play this classic Star Wars title with PS Plus on PS5 soon

New PlayStation leaks suggest 1999's Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace game is coming to the PS Plus Classics catalog on PS5 and PS4.

[MrBaskerville]

Another essential psx classic to the collection. Good thing they don't just rerelease crappy licenced titles and barely anything else.

[Rocketisleague]

Shole i agree with you....this game was kinda awesome in a weird way.

[Einhander1972]

Last month the classics were .

Grandia
Jet Moto
Up
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series - Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1) and Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil (PS2)
PaRappa the Rapper 2

That's 1 licensed game and 5 highly regarded classics

[MrBaskerville]

Grandia, up and Jet moto are the only games on this list that are actually newly added games. The rest are only new for the service, but have been available for a long time.

Just thinking of the ps1 and psp additions. They have added some classics, but also a lot of weird picks, considering the amount of classic games exist on psx.

I'm very happy with Grandia (though switch version is superior, and they also got the sequel). It just takes forever and when we only get 1-2 ports on a good month, these licenced games feels underwhelming. We get like 12 psx games a year, tops. If we got several psx ports every month, then I wouldn't mind as much.

Also wouldn't hurt if they ported ps2 games. so far the service hasn't had a single newly added port. There's so much potential. Tons of cool jrpgs and survival horror games galore. But we'll never get any of it. No Silent Hill, no Kuon, no Project Zero, no Siren 2, No Shadow Hearts, no Digital Devil saga and so forth.

To me the cool thing about premium was that they would add classic games that could also be purchased. They do, but it takes forever and the selection is a little odd. There's been some cool stuff, but considering the massive potential it has been a huge letdown. I was willing to buy a lot of shit but has gone the emulator route now, I don't have the patient. I will be dying of old age before i get to buy a legal copy of Parasite Eve 2 at this rate.

[Einhander1972]

I don't mean for this comment to come across wrong, just replying to your comment which was reasonable, not trying to argue, just reply.

A lot of what you listed are games that are made by studios that no longer exist so licensing them is the issue.

As for Grandia 2, it will probably be added in the future. And Silent Hill if it's going to be added it makes sense for Sony and Konami to add them closer to the release of the SH2 Remake.

Klonoa 2 is the PS2 version, and I imagine that after they are satisfied with the PS1 and PSP selection of games they will start adding more PS2 games.

To be fair Premium is only $2.65 over the cost of Extra, last months games are easily worth $2.65 I think at least, plus you get 4k game streaming and a movie collection. Heck Klonoa is $40 by itself.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Oh, I liked playing this game as a kid, I might pick it up eventually.

[Profchaos]

This game was universally hated but I couldn't get enough. It was one of those games that I played with my non gaming dad and we bonded over it way back so it's special to me akin to Mario in a weird way another title that we bonded over on the NES. I never owned it but the amount of money I spent renting it I could of brought it thrice over

It was the first game that made me feel all powerful and just like a Jedi it wasn't just combat to there were puzzles and walking around Tatooine talking to vendors trying to use force as a persuasion I loved it.

I don't think there's been a game since that's captured that same feeling even Jedi power battles to my young mind wasn't quite as good. I remember disliking the final level there was a impossible jump I could never land when chasing Darth maul and the section where you had to follow jar jar to the underwater gungan city was a exercise in frustration

I'm excited but nostalgia is a fickle beast and I'll probably walk away disappointed.

[mkis007]

This was the first game I ever wanted on a playstation system. Never had any interaction with a ps1 before this and I still remember ( through rose tinted glasses) being blown away by the opening sequence being like the movie.

It's quite funny how cool i thought this was to what i think it looks like now.

[gold_drake]

its a good game, difficult and abit confusing, but still very good.
neer made it far tbh ha.