PS Vita Reviews

Alone with You comes with a lot of promise. Benjamin Rivers proved himself with Home, the imaginative indie horror experience, so his next project is hotly anticipated. The game's premise is unique: As the lone survivor...

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is the fifth instalment in the long-running Shiren the Wanderer roguelike franchise. Having originally been released in 2010 on the Nintendo DS as a Japan...

Even though Minecraft: Story Mode (created by Telltale Games) has turned into a series with an overarching plot without a major presence, it was clear the series had to end at some point. It was obvious they...

Zero Escape, put simply, is a visual novel series where things go wrong and weird pretty hard and pretty fast. It is also a series I fell in love with pretty hard and pretty fast;...

Cameos are an awkward beast. The best ones, I find, are the cameos where you don't notice unless you know the right handshakes and winks to get it. Otherwise they blend seamlessly into the crowd...

As far as I’ve read, the Atelier series is a series of games developed yearly by Gust Co. Ltd dating all the way back to 1997 on the PlayStation, with the first instalment of the...

Severed is a dungeon-crawling action game for the PlayStation Vita by DrinkBox Studios, known for making Guacamelee! and Tales From Space. At its core, it is a graceful combination of the puzzle-based exploration style of The Legend of Zelda with the touch-screen...

Stranger of Sword City is a turn-based dungeon-crawler game developed by Experience and published by NIS America. The entire game revolves around hunting elusive boss monsters and searching for loot within perilous, maze-like dungeons. It has a...

I try, I really do try, to go into games with neutral expectations. In the weeks leading up to the release, just everything about the idea of Episode 5 rubbed me up the wrong way:...

Recently I had a discussion with another writer about what it means to say “inspired by”. While I often use it to mean “if people like X, they'll like Y”, the person who I was...

Baseball Riot is a physics-based puzzle game from 10tons. It is the sequel to 2014’s Tennis in the Face, in which players strike enemies unconscious with deadly tennis serves. Baseball Riot follows the same premise,...

Japanese games can be very, very weird; Muscle March for the Wii and Mister Mosquito on the PlayStation 2 come to mind when I think of games that probably never should have been localized. I'm not...

The Dynasty Warriors franchise has been around since 1997. Originally appearing as a traditional fighting game on the first Playstation, it has evolved into a series that almost everyone moderately involved in games recognizes. When...

Nostalgia is huge in the gaming community right now, and The Men Who Wear Many Hats have tapped into that with their recent release of Organ Trail Complete Edition. I was one of those fortunate...

Visual novels have found a nice home on the PS Vita. The handheld works well with them because it is very difficult to hold one's attention with a visual novel on a console. Heavy Rain...

The latest addition to the Danganronpa series hit the PS Vita with a bang. I had no idea what I was getting into when I was asked to review this game seeing as I've not...

NIS America has been a supporter of Sony's fledgling Vita system by shipping many dungeon crawlers for it. Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy is another one of the JRPG dungeon crawlers and it doesn't disappoint....

So sue me, but I just love the LEGO video game formula, and I just can’t get enough of the addictive smash and build gameplay that each one offers. The latest offering can only be...

Jungle Rumble: Freedom, Happiness and Bananas was developed by Disco Pixel. The game was released on February 10 and costs $4.99 on the PlayStation Network. A code was given to us for review purposes. This...

The Playstation Vita has a rear touchpad. Maybe I'd forgotten about it in my roughly 8 billion hours of playing Persona 4 Golden, but it's there. Sure, it may not be the most used feature...

Playing as a Japanese high school student has somehow slunk its way into the video game genre, with great success. People are clamoring for Atlus games and weird offshoots from other developers like Aksys Games....

Media criticism, especially video games, is usually a comparative art form; you compare a title to its forebears, both chronological and spiritual, and pass your judgment.  “Resident Evil 5 wasn’t as good as Resident Evil...

It may be a little unfair for me to review a Spongebob game. I have a particular fondness for the porous icon and I tend to like anything that he’s attached to significantly more than...

Duke Nukem is a video game characters that has achieved a type of elite status. Not elite in the way a Mario or even a Sonic might be, but elite in the fact that his...

Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds was released on August 12, 2014 for the PlayStation Vita. The game is published by 5pb and a review code was provided for review purposes. The Phantom Breaker franchise is quite...

NAtURAL DOCtRINE is an interesting little game from NIS America. Upon booting up the game on the PSVITA I was thrown into a sizable battle tutorial that showed me this wasn't going to be a...