A Forgotten 2005 PlayStation 2 Game Just Got A Stealth Remaster

Published Aug 6, 2026, 1:00 AM EDT Tom Wilson is a Gaming Features Writer at Screen Rant. Over the past five years, Tom has worked as the Editor-in-Chief at The Game Crater, as a Staff Writer for GamingIntel, a List Writer at TheGamer, and, of course, as a Senior Writer at ScreenRant. Tom has experience writing reviews, guides, news, and features, and has been responsible for teams of writers, training them and editing their work. Tom graduated with a Masters in Multimedia Journalism, and has since gone on to build up his portfolio of games journalism work. The PlayStation 2 played host to an abundance of truly phenomenal games that went on to inspire an entire generation of platformers, JRPGs, third-person shooters, and more. While the console has long been extinct, its impact on the industry as a whole and the incoming generation of developers is profound and should absolutely not be overlooked. Indeed, many of the very best PS2 games remain important cultural touchstones today that are just as worth playing as modern releases. However, that being said, due to the sheer number of games that released on PS2, there are plenty that go overlooked. This has led to several PS2 games being rendered completely unplayable, largely due to the physical disc fetching a hefty sum on secondhand reseller websites and remasters being a forgone conclusion. Fortunately, a truly hidden PS2 gem that could have been lost to time, has gotten an unexpected remaster that, somehow has gotten little to no attention despite being a rather big deal for fans of this particular classic. A Forgotten 2005 PlayStation 2 Game Has Returned While likely not considered one of the best PS2 games of all time, a 2005 title that garnered critical acclaim and a significant amount of attention from fans is finally returning after being lost to time and almost completely forgotten in the 23 years since its release. It joins a cavalcade of PS2 games getting remasters in 2026, something that should come as little surprise considering that it appears to be every publisher's favorite activity to resurrect dead titles from past generations in the hopes that nostalgia will get dogmatic fans to reinvest. In this case, the game is My Merry May with be, a confusingly titled compilation pack from 2005 that included 2002's My Merry May and 2003's My Merry Maybe. The first game in the compilation was released on the Dreamcast and later the PS2, and was intended to be the start of a trilogy. When it became clear that a full trilogy wasn't on the cards, My Merry Maybe concluded the series, with the compilation bringing the two together with a few enhancements three years later. My Merry May, My Merry Maybe, and, by extension, My Merry May with be were all Japan exclusives and never got official English translations. Fortunately, both games, through the compilation, are now officially available, for the first time, in the West as MAGES. Inc. has brought My Merry May with be to Steam. The only caveat is that they are still exclusively in Japanese, meaning you have to be able to read Japanese in order to understand what's going on. It's a shame that the remaster of the original compilation didn't factor in an English translation, especially considering both games are visual novels and therefore heavily rely on text to convey the story. Still, it is great to see these once forgotten experiences remastered and ported to modern hardware to preserve them and introduce them to a new audience. One can only hope that other forgotten PlayStation 2 masterpieces will get the same treatment. Brand Sony Original Release Date February 4, 2000 Original MSRP (USD) $299 Weight 4.85 lb