[PS2] Must Own PS2 Games, or how many middling JRPGs can you suggest?

Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
I still think this is one of the most underrated games on the PS2 ever. It's basically a third person action game, with either Motoko or Batou as the protagonist (depending on the level). Apart from shooting enemies, you jump around to dodge bullets, unleash kicks and various combos and do some nice platformer jumping and climbing. You can also Ghost Hack into enemies, giving you total control over them. It's a very well made game with solid controls.

The Red Star
This game takes place in some kind of alternate history russia. It's a side scrolling beat em up and shoot em up, with bosses dishing out bullet patterns which require you to do some nice dodging, Ikaruga style. Some enemies only take damage from ranged weapons and some only from melee, which gives some variety. Sometimes, the camera shifts to top-down action where you have to dodge crazy bullet patterns again. It's intense, and sometimes extremely fun. It does multiplayer too if I remember correctly. It's supposedly based on some novel, but I haven't read that.

Games other mentioned that I'd like to agree on:
Gradius V - Visual and audial orgasm. Shoot em up goodness.
Shinobi - Freaking hard. Has its flaws bot overall cool, should be dirt cheap.

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Originally Posted by Encephalon

Please forgive the inherent hypocrisy of the fact that I own it on Xbox.

I have it on PS2, and I find it pretty much unplayable with the frame rate being so incredibly shitty.

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

I have it on GC, like Spartan and Sands of Time. But they're all games worth owning on PS2 if you don't have anything else. So long as you have ze game.

I do have a Cube though. I might have to find this game for the GC instead.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.