Casper

This game brings back tons of nostalgia, its one of the games we had for PS1, although I'm pretty sure my mom used to play this more than me. Its essentially a puzzle game where you are Casper inside a giant mansion and you have to use basic abilities to get into hidden rooms and find hidden keys and puzzle pieces to enter new parts of the mansion and fight bosses until you are able to get to the final area and face the final boss. The game has very little story and a majority of the game is just exploration and trying to figure out where the hell to go. In a way it almost feels a bit like a Resident Evil or Zelda game without the enemies in terms of exploration and using keys and solving puzzles to open new areas.

I actually think Casper is an okay game, it definitely has some unique puzzles and has challenge and does require thinking, like should I open this door or will it be a waste of a key and take me to items I don't need. The game has pretty much no challenge since you can only really die to bosses and the bosses in this are so easy and basic that it would be pretty hard to even die to them. The main issue is you will often get lost and since there is really no map you won't know where to go and what doors you need to go to. This game is pretty big for the time it came out and there are a lot of areas to explore, so you'll be backtracking a lot and using your abilities to search every corner and try to figure out every puzzle.

I guess the music in this game is okay too, it certainly is catchy and memorable, or maybe its just because the game played the same music over and over that it just got stuck in my head as a kid. I do remember beating this game at least once as a kid, and that was before walkthroughs or guides, but I don't think I was ever able to get to that point again, I would always get lost or stuck at a certain point. This still isn't a bad game, and I would easily recommend this game to anyone into puzzle or pure exploration based games, but it does have some odd design choices, and the game often has you just guessing what you need to do next instead of actually helping or giving you hints. Hell I wouldn't mind replaying this if I had the chance since its been at least 15+ years since I last played it, but it still has enough flaws and there have just been many better puzzle based exploration games that have come since this.