Vita love
My top 5 Vita games in order but there's more I liked but these were the top 5 standout games to me.)
5.)Hotline Miami- Great game. Music amps up as you get kills, the combat is fast and frantic and it's easy to get sucked into it.
4.)Guacamelee! - Very fun game. Played it mostly on PS Vita and beat it outside while waiting for my car to get fixed somewhere lol. Cool artstyle, fun gameplay and nice little throwbacks to Metroid.
3.)Tearaway- Another gem that uses the Vita nicely with taking pictures, touchscreen etc. Great platformer game. Recommended.
2.)Virtue's Last Reward- Absolutely loved this game. It was free on PS Plus so I snagged it and played it here and there. it wasn't too interesting at first until I found out that there was a prequel that came out already. I dl'd 999 for the DS and played it on my phone's emulator. Loved it. The story had some big crazy twists, the atmosphere was dripping with claustrophobia and unease. The endings were really well done especially the true ending which blew my mind. I then came back to play VLR and it again blew me away like the first one did. Some huge huge twists/revelations that I did not see coming at all.
1.)Persona 4 Golden Absolutely the best game on the Vita imo and pretty much one of the best games I've ever played period. I initially almost shrugged this game off thinking it was some weirdo game but man I ended up emulating the PS2 version and
loved it. I played Persona 3 Portable for the PSP before Persona 4 for about 10 hours and got stuck somewhere and put it away for a while.
I then saw recommendations saying that 4 was much better.. and it absolutely was.
The music was so fukking catchy, the dialogue and witty banter between the characters were funny and enjoyable, the Pokèmon like meta gameplay with getting new persona's and fusing them made it fun and worthwhile to increase social links with people. The game's visuals weren't anything noteworthy but for a game running on PS2 it still captivated me despite not having the production values of the bigger JRPG games at the time. The voice acting and dialogue were great. It was fun to play a JRPG that wasn't so entrenched in the typical eurocentric fantasy influenced theme.
40 hours later I was so hooked that I went and purchased it full price off of PSN for the Vita. It was even better than the PS2 version in almost every way. I ended up beating it twice.
First time I got the ending it was the normal ending which leaves you kind of open on what actually happened. I thought it was meh but I found out there was a golden ending and that ending gave me like 5-6 hours of more gameplay. I got spoiled with a person's name but it still wasn't the full picture.
That ending, the music everything culminating towards the very final attack that you can land on the final boss was
powerful(in execution not flashiness or production wise.) It just made everything that went on throughout the game matter.
You felt the journey just revving up. it's funny when I see some people ask "What's soo good about this game?" like that's a weird question. It's the journey, the sums of all things not a specific thing in isolation that made it great. It's not
just the music, or
just the characters or
just the "waifu" thing people over exaggerate: it was how the music, the characters, the social links meta, the story and other shyt just worked in unison almost throughout the entire game.
How the music would perfectly fit in during some scenes, how the dialogue was almost always just right and not forced or took itself way too seriously.
Once the game ended and I got the final golden ending I didn't feel like playing anything else for a while. It was one of the most enjoyable games i've ever played up there with great games I played in the past like Zelda OOT, Smash Bros Melee, FFVII, RE2, etc.
The Vita is absolutely, was absolutely worth it just for this game alone. and to think.. I'm 78 hours in Persona 5 and I feel like Persona 4 Golden is almost..
mediocre in comparison in a lot of aspects. It's just so much better in a lot of ways. I had gigantic expectations for 5 and I surely wasn't expecting it to meet it but it's hit a home run out the damn park. I still grin/smile/laugh/
at the game. It's just improved in every aspect, even the little things and it's done in such a stylish fashion that oozes style.
The main thing being I didn't like the dungeons in P4G and in P5 they're not like that, they're organic, pre set/designed dungeons with their own layouts/bosses/enemies/events etc. and even on top of that there's still older traditional dungeons for side stuff.
