A Hat In Time is great.
As much as you deny it, you are just experiencing Nostalgia. I was an N64 and GameCube kid and never really had much to do with PlayStation. I played Ratchet and Clank and Jak and Daxter well into the PS4 days and was underwhelmed with both.
For some reason I’m particularly keen on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder on the Dancefloor at the moment. No idea why but it did just turn 20 years old.