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

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