Dark Half is one of those weird, ambitious SNES RPGs that never got the love it deserved. You switch between playing as the demon lord Ravelnok and the human hero Valgo—which sounds simple, but the demon side plays like a dark strategy game where you command monsters, while Valgo’s story is more traditional fantasy RPG stuff. The twist? They’re the same person, just split into two.

It’s janky in places (the fan translation’s incomplete, so good luck with some menus), but there’s something cool about sending your undead minions to terrorize villages as Ravelnok, then switching to Valgo and realizing you just made your own hero’s life harder. The music’s got that moody 16-bit gothic vibe too—haunting church organs when you’re the villain, hopeful strings when you’re the hero. Not perfect, but way ahead of its time.