also the game gestures towards a lot of cool lore but never explores any of it, there's just a teaser for a sequel in the epilogue/credits scene? and it tries to go all "the police gets militarized and the military leadership has dark plans" but then the worst thing they do is build a giant machine that can kill the monsters you're fighting the whole game (but they're evil so it blows up and almost destroys the city)

When playing Uncharted on the Vita I thought "maybe I'm too harsh on this game, it runs on a handheld after all" but honestly at the level of "handheld gaming" the Vita offers the games could be better, even if they'd have to be shorter as a tradeoff. Idk, Sony sold this thing as a handheld PS3, they should pay devs to make PS3-level games then, not just from a graphical standpoint, but also wrt polish and story

I think the Switch circumvented this by also being a traditional console. It raises the bar, now the games have to be comparable to PS4 and Xbone

not that there's not a lot of crap on the Switch, but Nintendo's offerings are definitely not scaled back to fit a handheld

then again, the Vita has achievements, system-wide voice chat, multiplayer invites… so

it also has email, a web browser, music and video playback but Nintendo's correct that no one cares about that anymore. Phones exist and do that job better.

also I still don't get what problem the back touchscreen is supposed to solve

most games just ignore it, some use it as an additional button or two