finished Gravity Rush! the story's a bit weak but the gameplay is unlike any other and really fun
like, Kat and Raven and [spoiler] are cool characters but the game often just tells you stuff even though you can talk to people and find out for yourself! It has a lot of style and is definitely an impressive title on the Vita but it also feels like some things lack polish, like I've never gotten a gold medal on any of the challenges because they're mostly me fighting the controls to like, turn faster or regain my bearings after falling
Gravity Rush spoiler
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)
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
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