Japanese first-person shooters

There are not many of them, so let's try list them all here.

Star Cruiser and Star Cruiser II
A space-sim/FPS hybrid. It has got a cult following in Japan and is almost unknown in the rest of the world. Most of you probably tried the Megadrive port, which is not very good for the following reasons: it's jerky and slow, it has ugly textures, it is linear (you can travel only where the plot allows you), and the economy part is completely cut. The X68000 version is the best IMO. Actual shooter gameplay is as refined as Wolfenstein 3D, it even has strafe controls! The early pre-wolf id software shooters were much much worse.

Iron Angel of the Apocalypse and Iron Angel of the Apocalypse: Return
Wolf 3D style shooter with emphasis on the plot. The first one suffers from choppy framerate and monotonous textures, but the second one is really not bad. It reminds me of Bloodshot from Sega Genesis.

Geograph Seal
Excellent game! FPS with a brilliant jumping technique. Probably the best exclusive X68000 game ever. I wish there was a console port (32X would run this without a problem).

Jumping Flash and Jumping Flash 2
The spiritual successors to Geograph Seal with more platforming elements. Both titles are great, I just wish the developers spent more time on the artwork.

Kileak games
I can't comment on these since I've yet to play them, but the general opinion on the Internet is not very good.

Outtriggers
Not only it's a jFPS, but also an arcade FPS, which is also very rare :) Made by Sega it got a Dreamcast port. Addicting but gets old fast.

Coded Arms
FPS by Konami, haven't tried this either.

Anything else?

Does Metal Head count, or does that not count because you're in a mech?

Breakdown
Space Griffon VF-9
Elebits (Non-traditional but I think it counts)
Capcom's gun game hybrids like Dino Stalker and some Resident Evil spin offs
Time Crisis 4 (some parts in home version)
Fatal Frame 2 and 3 (in first-person mode)
Crime Crackers 1 and 2 (also part RPG)
Brahma Force (I'm not sure if this is actually separate from the Kileak series)

The only one I can remember right now that wasn't mentioned yet is Banpresto's J-SWAT for the Saturn, which is absolutely horrendous from what I saw.

As for Coded Arms, that one was quite good. Can't comment on the sequel (Coded Arms: Contagion) since I've never played it. That one was apparently done by a Western team, though.

Does Maken X for Dreamcast count? It really is more like a First Person Sworder.

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Originally Posted by GriskaGyoran

Does Maken X for Dreamcast count? It really is more like a First Person Sworder.

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Of coruse and the not on the best example from a Japanese studio , its also one of the best FPS I've ever played . Also really loved and rated Gun Griffon series too

Kileak was VERY similar to Alien vs Predator for the Jaguar, just with different bad guys. Both are closer to Wolf3D than Doom, and both were meant to be better than Wolf3D. The first Kileak game had issues with fish-eye textures on walls when you got close as they didn't work around the affine texture mapping in the PSX. All-in-all, I like the Kileak games well enough.

Jumping Flash was a TON of fun! That is one of my all-time favorite FPS games. I just wish they had an open source version so the community could work on level and entity mods for it.

There's Robotica (Deadalus) on the Sega Saturn. I once had this title, but sold it, because of how boring it was.

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There are not many of them, so let's try list them all here.

Star Cruiser and Star Cruiser II
A space-sim/FPS hybrid. It has got a cult following in Japan and is almost unknown in the rest of the world. Most of you probably tried the Megadrive port, which is not very good for the following reasons: it's jerky and slow, it has ugly textures, it is linear (you can travel only where the plot allows you), and the economy part is completely cut. The X68000 version is the best IMO. Actual shooter gameplay is as refined as Wolfenstein 3D, it even has strafe controls! The early pre-wolf id software shooters were much much worse.

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I've been dying to play since I heard the soundtrack on Hoot player.I pray that someone will translate at least one of the many versions of this game.

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Outtriggers
Not only it's a jFPS, but also an arcade FPS, which is also very rare :) Made by Sega it got a Dreamcast port. Addicting but gets old fast.

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I spent many hours with that game. The soundtrack wasn't half bad from what I recall.