Correction: the Muv Luv Psychedelica games are also available on steam! However right now the only way to get them physically in the west is on the vita.
@@Ad-us8vjpersonally I prefer the oled for the better screen the colours and deep blacks look amazing and I feel the oled model feels more premium but you do have worse battery life than the 2000 model and a proprietary charging cable so it's up you what you'd prefer really :) The slim is also well slimmer lol and a lot lighter so that could be a pro or con depending on what you prefer
You have a good-sized Psvita physical collection. Psvita is one of my favorite underrated handhelds. Sony gave up on the Vita. Way too soon, but Indie games gave the Vita a longer life span. I love collecting for the Vita because of its unique library. I originally played Trails of Cold Steel 1 for the Vita and had a wonderful experience, and it got me into the Trails series!😁👍
I played the Cold Steel 1/2 games on there initially as well! (though on my modded system). I was amazed how different the approach was from the Sky games :)
Welcome to Vita Island Emily! That's a pretty good collection you picked up despite starting late. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has both a modded Vita Slim and an OLED to play the physical collection. I was fortunate enough to start collecting most of my games when GameStop started selling the preowned copies for 12-25 bucks back in 2016-18, (I have new copies of games as well, but back then I had to be really frugal with my game collecting by buying preowned copies). By the time 2019 came around, you had to ask the GameStop clerk for a printed list of what they had in stock since GameStop was still selling them, but did not want to provide any shelf space for them. The only thing that I'm missing from my collection that I really want is Tale Of Hearts R. GameStop was selling it for 18 bucks back in the day, but unfortunately I didn't pull the trigger. and now the physical price has tripled. I am a fan of the Tales series how you are to the LOH Trails series. Love your channel and collection set-up! Keep up the good content!
Not exclusive to the Vita entirely but Dissidia Duodecim and The Force Unleashed (PSP) are highly underrated. The Vita Ports of Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 and Split Second are actually pretty solid. And if you haven't played Threads of Fate, it's one of the few available ways to do so. LOVE that game.
POV: You were roaming YT looking for PS vita hidden gems... You died and woke up in heaven to a jRpg collecting dark-haired PS vita angel. Everything's fine. 😊
Emily, you are simply my favorite RUclipsr at this point in terms of game collecting. Your voice always calms me down and tips help me reorganize my thoughts around my own strategies for my collection. I feel like you don't follow How To Be Amazing RUclipsr in 2024 type of guidelines and you have your own way of content creation which is a very unique alternative these days. I really appreciate that you invest your free time to regularly create videos.
I think the ps vita is an amazing piece of hardware especially for the time of its release. But ultimately it just became a thing I played Persona 4 Golden and Ys: Memories of Celceta and that's kinda it. I really should look into modding mine 🤔
Might I suggest Utewarerumono: Mask of Lies and Utewarerumono: Mask of Truth. I got those for the PSVita a long while back, they fit into a strategy RPG meets heavy on the visual novel aspects. One of my favorites. Also God Wars, but also a visual novel strategy game mesh and was released on the Switch as well where I have it there too.
I own these on the PS4 actually! Heard the performance & load times are a bit better on there (& wanted it to go with my prelude PS4 game too 😅). God wars I have on the Switch - I think that one has the DLC or something making it the 'complete' version. But not bad choices for others to consider on the Vita!
I would love to see a port of Muramasa Rebirth to the Switch. I loved the Wii version, but never owned a Vita. I'm really not someone that double dips with their collection, but for this game I might. Something about Vanillaware's art style is so peaceful and calming no matter how much violence is on the screen lol
I hope so too because Muramasa is one of my favorite Vanillaware titles. The DLC Rebirth received was great as well, as it introduced 4 new original stories with characters that play vastly different from each other. The Nekomata, the cursed ninja and the one starring the Oni girl were my favorites.
I played the Code: Realize trilogy on the Switch and I liked the experience via the Switch, just for the fact I could switch between a bigger screen (TV) and a handheld device. From what I know, I believe in the rereleases, Wintertide Miracles (last game) has a few extra story scenes (unvoiced) that are extremely short, so if you go with the VIta version, you aren’t missing out on much.
I absolutely love the vita, I think i have almost every vita RPG at this point, I have 2 vitas but the ocean blue one is fantastic. IF youre willing to take advice from a semi regular commentator: Ar No surge (Expensive) criminal girls 1 and 2 (if youre ok with lewd) god wats future past utawarerumono toukiden 1 and 2 valhalla knight 3 operation abyss new tokyo legacy terraria all are fantastic picks
anytime! They are very heavily rooted in VN style gameplay (as it started as a VN) and honestly, the Vita has some of th emost amazing VNs. TLDR: play them on the vita not the ps4, much more rewarding experience @@orbalology
I bought a Vita just to play Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star because even now years after release it's only available for the Vita and PS4, and I wasn’t about to buy a PlayStation given I was a college student then lol (I still don’t have a PS). I absolutely LOVE the Psychedelica games, some of my favorire VNs ever, but they're both available on Steam now so I don’t recommend buying a Vita just for those. But Sweet Fuse was only ever in the Vita and PSP and I really enjoyed it!
Oh I may be mistaken, but I think Umbral Star is available physically on the Switch now! Along with Link. I want to say I own one of those now and have the other on my to-buy list. But the Psychedelica games are so good! It's good they're available on steam now - hopefully they'll see Switch or other console ports at some point.
@orbalology Just checked and yeah, Umbral Star is on Switch and PC now, which is cool! I know Otomate just announced that 7'scarlet is getting a Switch release at least in Japan, and that game is on Steam, too, so there's hope yet for the Psychedelicas to be on the Switch - but we'll have to see if that carries over to the English versions 🙏
There are no games that aren't collectible on a dead system. Except shitty FIFA and co games. Even bad games are collectible. You ever played Taxi 2 on the Dreamcast? It's garbage. It sells for 150€ on Ebay.
Bought the lost child digitally right before it gotten delisted on switch. Haven't played it, just that losing access to it, made me impulse buy it 🫠 On the plus side, it was super cheap, under $10. Im sorta excited for that Xanadu game. I watch basement bros and he did a video on the pc88 Xanadu game. He's done alot of early falcom games on the channel 🤓
Whenever delistments are announced in advanced I cannot help but try to prioritize them as well - glad you grabbed it for not too much though! I haven't played Tokyo Xanadu yet (even though I have the eX+ version on PS4) but I hear really good things about them. They're often described as cross between Ys gameplay with Trails/Persona social links.
The Tales series of Games is a fantastic series to jump into. The first one that I had played was Tales of Symphonia on my GameCube when I was kid back in the early 2000s. After jailbreaking my vita and finding out about Tales of Hearts R, I had to grab it to relive that real-time party combat game play and awesome story that comes along with it. It's a good "sit down and play" game, especially if you're on a long flight.
I have a sealed copy of Uncharted: Golden Abyss I wish I could send you, but it is pretty much impossible from Argentina. I could recommend you to try Soul Sacrifice (or Soul Sacrifice Delta, its "enhanced" version). It is a pretty good game and still exclusive to Vita.
Imo, since many of Vita's exclusives was and is being ported to modern console or PC, I don't think it's worthy for new collector in 2024 unless you want to own every PS console..🤔 in that case, it's fine 😊 Thank you for sharing, Emily 🙂
I paid way too much for persona 4 golden, wish I had lacrimosa of Dana instead, but nonetheless have collected heaps of physical vita games over the years!!
I wish I could delete Velocity 2X from my mind and play it again. What a perfect little Vita game. Unfortunately due to Sony shooting themselves in the foot I didn't buy a vita until it was EOL and a modern hack was released. My physical PSP collection is large but Vita games are too hard to find for a reasonable price.
It's honestly aggravating that they locked the Muv Luv trilogy Switch port behind a $200-$300 collectors edition. I was hyped when i heard that they were porting it last year amd then they announced that. It's confusing as to why they think this was a good idea. Hopefully it gets a release outside of the collector's edition down the line.
Any game that has a Switch port that isn’t massively improved, is a better option on the Vita for my liking. Because unlike the Switch, the Vita is a full on lean handheld, which makes the portability aspect much more appealing.
I just got a vita and I loved your content! If you had to pick 3 which would you recommend to me? I loved all of the final fantasy games if that helps to narrow it down. Thanks for the response in advance!
I'm a PS fan but I never bought a vita, I don't know why and now I'm buying all the consoles for collection and I hope to have the vita soon and see its abilities 🤣😂
love vita videos, other channels i watch that do them all agree, when youve experienced vita, you trulyappreciate it a lot and see how big of a wasted oppertunity it was had sony not given up on it, (for those wondering, xbox performmed a kamikaze at e3 2013 and allowed sony to take the home console throne, so for the whole generation, sony allocated all resources to the ps4, giving up on the handheld market, and while it is sad, we had an incredible generation as the ps4 is now one of the best of all time thanks to the vita's sacrifice lol) but the vita is truly a special device, the switch owes everthing to sonys foundation it left with vita, all vita franchises migrated to switch now, so the vita is truly an important device!
Just throwing it out there gravity rush and assassins creed liberation work so well on the vita and they're my favorite to play to this day on vita exclusively
I love both Steins Gate and the Zero Escape series, so cool to see you own them physically! Visual Novels are awesome, one of my favourite genres of video games ❤
the steins gate games are amazing and you’re right the original version is better. I’m currently playing muv luv and even if it comes to switch the vita version still has trophies so imo it’s better.
Great video and wonderful for a reference! I love my Vita and at this point I’m pretty much done collecting for it but there’s the odd game I’d probably still buy for it. Such a nice little system!
Hi Emily! This is my first time seeing your channel as this video randomly showed up in my feed. Great to see a fellow Vita collector talk about their favorites. I've owned my Vita a week before launch (Sony did an odd pre-release and came out with the so-called "First Edition" that came with a 4GB card and a copy of Little Deviants which was an Augmented Reality type game that I have yet to open up 😂) Seeing this system from launch all the way up to PSTV and the LCD version, I just wanted to give you some.of my favorites and suggestions as well. The first three games I picked up within that window are Uncharted: Golden Abyss (absolute must play, I know you will love), Ninja Gaiden Sigma (I know this was released on a ton of consoles but at the time, I wanted it portable so it was a no brained for me) and Unit 13 (This is also a great Vita exclusive shooter and it was the last game created by Zipper Interactive, the team behind SOCOM US Navy Seals). If you like shooters, Unit 13 may be worth it. As time went on, I got Ragnarok Odyssey (a Phantasy Star Online / Monster Hunter style Action RPG based on the Ragnarok Online series), Dynasty Warriors Next (a decent, well playing game in that series) and Soul Sacrifice (an early exclusive that has a unique sacrificial mechanic that you use to get more powers in hopes of defeating your opponent.) Like yourself, I also have Muramasa Rebirth (was so glad that game was released because I missed the Wii version) and Tales of Hearts R (which was a Game Stop Exclusive in the US). Since Vita did not have Monster Hunter, I embraced a lot of excellent, Monster Hunter style Action RPGs on the system. In addition to Ragnarok Odyssey, I also picked up Toukiden: Kiwami (this was a more complete version of Age of Demons that was themed around Samurai, Japanese lore and mythology), the absolutely incredible Freedom Wars (I never played this online but the offline is still a ton of fun, story based and totally worth the playthrough. Think a Cyberpunk-ish Phantasy Star Online meets Attack on Titan with Mecha and robots in place of the Titans and you will get the general idea. Also, it seems enhanced when playing it on the PSTV and can be played with a PS4 controller which makes it feel like a console game). Also, in that genre, as you can probably tell by now, I'm a huge Phantasy Star Online fan as well as Monster Hunter so I imported a fun little single player action RPG called Phantasy Star Nova (which was a combination of efforts between SEGA and Tri-Ace, the team behind the Star Ocean series). Yes, it's in Japanese and in terms of reading, it will be difficult to regular players. However, I'm quite adventurous and will play despite my extreme lack of knowledge when it comes to reading Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Once I got the menus figured out, the game was insane Ina good way! Giant Mecha Prawns with Rail Gina's and missile launchers? Absolutely! Chef Gundam in your party? You better believe it! I've been bugging the hell out of SEGA to localize this for release in the West on the Switch. I truly hope they eventually listen because we have not seen any single player Phantasy Star game since the NDS. I also really enjoyed Dragons Crown. Originally, it was a times exclusive for the Vita. It has also been released on PS3 and PS4. It may be on Steam and Xbox One but I'm not sure at the moment. Currently, the Vita version is the only way to play that game portably. Along with Muramasa, this is another Vanillaware game I would love to see on Switch. We just recently got a demo for the upcoming Unicorn Overlord so hopefully, that's the sign we need for remaster or ports of other Vanillaware classics. For anyone who wants to get into importing and likes custom firmware, despite the fact that a lot of RPGs do not have English versions, keep in mind that some games get English Translation patches which help significantly increase the playability of these games. Anyway, I've rambled for way too long. Great video! Good luck with your channel and I look forward to more upcoming content. I could keep going on as I haven't covered my entire collection but it would take me forever to finish this. Have a great rest of your week and keep up the great work!
I owned the Vita while owning the PS3, PS4, and 3DS, and I think the only reason that it's called a RPG portable imo is because PSP. People see the Vita, see that had Persona 4 where the updated version was an exclusive and then just assume that it's got the wide variety of RPGs that the PSP did but the system has almost nothing compared to the PSP or its competitor the 3DS. I'm more of a Sony fan, but the Vita was the most disappointing console I've ever purchased next to the Wii U. But while Vita has a few ports and I really do mean few because as many ports as it has, the 3DS has more exclusives as well as some of the best ports from the DS, atleast where the Atlus published games were concerned. I own 97 Vita games. I kept throwing money at it to try and justify my Vita collection but it only made me feel worse and I just couldn't stop spending money on it to try and change that. I will say though that the Vita does have one of the best RPG dungeon crawlers ever made imo. Not something you can play in public due to its extreme oversexualization, which is also not the reason it's one of my favorite dungeon crawlers, but the class system, combat, and overall design puts it easily at the the top 10 in the genre at the very least. That game is Dungeon Travelers 2. Dungeon Travelers 2 has multiple characters throughout the game that can be one of the base classes of a specific class. The game has 16 characters, one character for every single advanced class in the game, however, every character can be any class in their particular class type. Each base class can upgrade into two classes, and each of those can upgrade into another three advance classes based on the second tier of classes you chose to upgrade to, except for the mages which can upgrade to three different classes and then those can upgrade to up to four classes. Dungeon Travelers 2 is developed by Sting, but if you want a game that I find extremely similair in design to the point that I thought Sting developed it(and simply because I've never once liked a Compile Heart game until I finally played it,) but a series of games you'll actually find similar to Dungeon Travelers 2's class system is the Mary Skelter games. The Mary Skelter games start off where you can choose one of several classes for your characters and each skill you learn from each class carries over to any of your other classes, allowing you to build your characters around all of the available skills you can gain and in some cases you'll have physical classes that have magic skills which are good to learn and carry over to a magic class. While each character in Dungeon Travelers 2 is sort of a class type upgrade to their original base class, your skills from each new skill tier is added on each class up.
Never got a vita, It flew under the radar for me for some reason maybe. Just thought it was a fancier psp kinda Ike i thought the Wii U was just another version of the Wii.
I bought a Vita and Persona 4 Golden in a Black Friday sale a decade ago and for nearly that entire decade P4G was the only game I owned for it. It wasn't until some time last year while I was on a long travel trip that I visited some retro games store and saw among their stock the Vita versions for Final Fantasy X/X2 Collection and the standalone Virtue's Last Reward part of Nonary Games and thought "Eh...why not? Like I already own both of those on other consoles but I may as well buy them so that I have more than literally one game for this console after 10 years." Though I barely played the console when I got it and then just put it back in the box and onto my shelf where it proceeded to sit for years to present day. At least I own 3 games for it now. (Though I also did order the LRG Switch release for P4G)
Thanks for the recommendations! I will definitely be looking into some of the jrpgs you mentioned! I didn’t buy my Vita until 2020, more or less just to put it in my handheld collection, but I ended up really loving the system and wishing I had picked it up when it was more current. The OLED display is just stunning and I absolutely loved playing the first 2 Danganronpas on it.
I got this particular shirt off a Yetee special, however the artist CoinboxTees I believe offers it in another color variant either on their etsy shop or TeePublic page :)
Oh how I love when people start to support a console after it's been discontinued. Oh my god... What's wrong with people? Why wouldn't people support consoles when they were active? I got 70+ Games that I bought when the vita was active and alive. Got two OG oled 3G vitas in pristine condition too, I'm never selling any of it, especially not to people who weren't there supporting the platform when it actually mattered. Good video though...
I was with the vita since launch. I have over 40 physical titles. Vita store is still up, so you can snag some great ps1 or psp titles to play on the device. The rachet and clank collection is a good one for the system.
@@lesterbronson2385 oh I know, I actually ended up paying close to that, but I found it in the wild. There was only a European physical release, I'm in the states. So I'd say a rare find. Heck finding vita games in person can be a tall order. Just started playing it finally. Never played a rachet game.
@@orbalology I would say it runs quite well. Good enough that upon testing and played for an hour. Performs much better than jak or God of war collection. Not sure how sly collection runs.
I really wish the Vita store had more PSP titles here, i believe the US has a really good list but the UK only has a few of the great PSP titles. Its sad that Sony just let the Vita die, its launch lineup were kinda the only exciting games we got. (I haven't looked into it much myself but I have heard the localisation with the P4G ports is questionable. So maybe if you are picky about that stuff then the Vita version would be worth it.)
We own 194 Vita games. So many JRPGs. Someday we're going to retire and my wife (who also plays JRPGs) and I will just sit in a house somewhere and play RPGs for the rest of our days. Maybe then we'll catch up.
Vita have a lot of potential. I been having my vita for 7 years and still of the best handheld ever. Nice ps vita collection. The first 3 games i bought was BlazBlue chronophantasma extend, MK9 and call of duty declassified.
wow i got the same setup, a modded slim white and a 1000 model for the physical games i got. I love Vita content, keep it up! Btw I got one hidden gem recommendation: Epic Mickey 2 physical, the price of this game is probably going to the moon because they are going to remaster the first one for the current gen consoles, so be quick :)
I'm fairly new to them too, having grown up with the Nintendo handhelds. The vita itself is a pretty neat system that seemed to be ahead of it's time. But it's nice that many of these games are now getting ported to the Switch since it's much more accessible on there.
Wipeout Omega Collection (released on PS4) is probably the premier Wipeout game to get at this point. It's more or less a compendium of the two Wipeout games for the PSP (Wipeout Pure & Pulse) and Wipeout 2048 for the Vita. Runs at 4k/60hz on PS5 if you fancy that.
Hi Emily. Awesome video always. I think I figured out why I love your videos so much even though I don't have a Vita or have played any of those RPG games. I think it's because you are so knowledgeable & you educate me in all of your videos you do.
@@orbalology You're very captivating for sure. I would say interesting a lot. You would have to be interesting for me to watch a gaming Genre I am not into.
I was happy to grab Night Trap a few years back. To my knowledge it’s one of the handful of FMV games that made to the Vita. Highly recommended. Or not.
I bought a Vita Slim last year and only played maybe 10 hours or so in a year. But now I play it more than my Switch OLED lol. I really love PS Vita after finding out I can increase games performance by overclocking it. That's a nice feature on a modded Vita.
The PS Vita was definitely my favorite console to collect for as someone who is a fan of rhythm games, visual novels, and JRPGs. While collecting for the console can be expensive, it got me interested in game importing, something I have carried over to my Switch collection. Definitely get Gravity Rush for the Vita, such a great way to experience the game, and easily my favorite Vita title. Furthermore, Dungeon Traveler's 2 is definitely worth playing. As someone who previously never played a DRPG, the game is surprising deep with character build customization and is very friendly to new players of the genre. Once you get past the excessive fan service, there's a solid game there, glad I gave it a chance. Finally, getting Trails of Cold Steel 1 + 2 on the Vita & PS3 allows you to take advantage of the cross save feature, weird that Sony didn't promote this more since it was basically a precursor to what the Nintendo Switch does.
tbh I hope they won't remake it for some time (as I still need to play one of the two versions I now own lol). I think it may be time for Atlus to focus on Persona 6 too (hopefully).
You absolutely have to pick up Dungeon Travelers 2 on the Vita! The game is amazing and has already been turned away from Steam. So its the only way it is currently really playable. Grab that one sooner rather than later. It's actually a quality Dungeon Crawler.
People just enjoy having something physical but I do agree to an extent especially when you're buying games for a dead System your money is not going to the developers or the publisher so I see no problem using PKGJ for example If there's a better enhanced version of a game on switch, PS4, PS5 or PC I'll happily buy it there
My favorites are gravity, persona 4 golden, tearaway, hotline Miami, and dragon crown. I don't modd my systems or even buy them that way but with the handhelds I definitely have them modded because that's a must have because I love my jrpg. I got quite a few from Japan and their games seem better than our ps vita games in North America. It was a great handheld and still is. I play it everyday when I get the chance
Correction: the Muv Luv Psychedelica games are also available on steam! However right now the only way to get them physically in the west is on the vita.
@orbalology what is the better version of the vita the oled or the slim?
Muv-Luv / Muv-Luv Alternative Remastered Double Pack (Multi-Language) has just released on switch in June. =)
@@Ad-us8vjpersonally I prefer the oled for the better screen the colours and deep blacks look amazing and I feel the oled model feels more premium but you do have worse battery life than the 2000 model and a proprietary charging cable so it's up you what you'd prefer really :)
The slim is also well slimmer lol and a lot lighter so that could be a pro or con depending on what you prefer
You have a good-sized Psvita physical collection. Psvita is one of my favorite underrated handhelds. Sony gave up on the Vita. Way too soon, but Indie games gave the Vita a longer life span. I love collecting for the Vita because of its unique library. I originally played Trails of Cold Steel 1 for the Vita and had a wonderful experience, and it got me into the Trails series!😁👍
I played the Cold Steel 1/2 games on there initially as well! (though on my modded system). I was amazed how different the approach was from the Sky games :)
Welcome to Vita Island Emily! That's a pretty good collection you picked up despite starting late. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has both a modded Vita Slim and an OLED to play the physical collection. I was fortunate enough to start collecting most of my games when GameStop started selling the preowned copies for 12-25 bucks back in 2016-18, (I have new copies of games as well, but back then I had to be really frugal with my game collecting by buying preowned copies). By the time 2019 came around, you had to ask the GameStop clerk for a printed list of what they had in stock since GameStop was still selling them, but did not want to provide any shelf space for them. The only thing that I'm missing from my collection that I really want is Tale Of Hearts R. GameStop was selling it for 18 bucks back in the day, but unfortunately I didn't pull the trigger. and now the physical price has tripled. I am a fan of the Tales series how you are to the LOH Trails series. Love your channel and collection set-up! Keep up the good content!
Not exclusive to the Vita entirely but Dissidia Duodecim and The Force Unleashed (PSP) are highly underrated. The Vita Ports of Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 and Split Second are actually pretty solid. And if you haven't played Threads of Fate, it's one of the few available ways to do so. LOVE that game.
Oh I'll have to look into those, thanks for mentioning them!
POV: You were roaming YT looking for PS vita hidden gems... You died and woke up in heaven to a jRpg collecting dark-haired PS vita angel. Everything's fine. 😊
Emily, you are simply my favorite RUclipsr at this point in terms of game collecting. Your voice always calms me down and tips help me reorganize my thoughts around my own strategies for my collection. I feel like you don't follow How To Be Amazing RUclipsr in 2024 type of guidelines and you have your own way of content creation which is a very unique alternative these days. I really appreciate that you invest your free time to regularly create videos.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words :)
I think the ps vita is an amazing piece of hardware especially for the time of its release. But ultimately it just became a thing I played Persona 4 Golden and Ys: Memories of Celceta and that's kinda it. I really should look into modding mine 🤔
It's a great system to mod!
Might I suggest Utewarerumono: Mask of Lies and Utewarerumono: Mask of Truth. I got those for the PSVita a long while back, they fit into a strategy RPG meets heavy on the visual novel aspects. One of my favorites. Also God Wars, but also a visual novel strategy game mesh and was released on the Switch as well where I have it there too.
I own these on the PS4 actually! Heard the performance & load times are a bit better on there (& wanted it to go with my prelude PS4 game too 😅). God wars I have on the Switch - I think that one has the DLC or something making it the 'complete' version. But not bad choices for others to consider on the Vita!
Watched the show because im a weeb....
heard the games are bit echi;?
Really nice collection! I'm also nearing the end of my Vita collecting, which feels good in a way, but it's also kinda sad. Such a cool system!
I would love to see a port of Muramasa Rebirth to the Switch. I loved the Wii version, but never owned a Vita. I'm really not someone that double dips with their collection, but for this game I might.
Something about Vanillaware's art style is so peaceful and calming no matter how much violence is on the screen lol
I know the Vita version with the OLED screen looked amazing. I hope it gets a modern port soon too.
Vanillaware's games are always an excellent time!
I hope so too because Muramasa is one of my favorite Vanillaware titles. The DLC Rebirth received was great as well, as it introduced 4 new original stories with characters that play vastly different from each other. The Nekomata, the cursed ninja and the one starring the Oni girl were my favorites.
The Vita was a cool device at the time, I played a ton of Everybody’s Golf.
I played the Code: Realize trilogy on the Switch and I liked the experience via the Switch, just for the fact I could switch between a bigger screen (TV) and a handheld device. From what I know, I believe in the rereleases, Wintertide Miracles (last game) has a few extra story scenes (unvoiced) that are extremely short, so if you go with the VIta version, you aren’t missing out on much.
Your video concepts are great thanks for posting so much informative content!
Great video! I love playing on the Vita for the comfort, OLED, and trophies 😃
I absolutely love the vita, I think i have almost every vita RPG at this point, I have 2 vitas but the ocean blue one is fantastic. IF youre willing to take advice from a semi regular commentator: Ar No surge (Expensive)
criminal girls 1 and 2 (if youre ok with lewd)
god wats future past
utawarerumono
toukiden 1 and 2
valhalla knight 3
operation abyss new tokyo legacy
terraria
all are fantastic picks
Thanks for the suggestions! I have the utawerumono games on the PS4 but I hear they're good on the Vita as well.
anytime! They are very heavily rooted in VN style gameplay (as it started as a VN) and honestly, the Vita has some of th emost amazing VNs. TLDR: play them on the vita not the ps4, much more rewarding experience @@orbalology
I bought a Vita just to play Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star because even now years after release it's only available for the Vita and PS4, and I wasn’t about to buy a PlayStation given I was a college student then lol (I still don’t have a PS).
I absolutely LOVE the Psychedelica games, some of my favorire VNs ever, but they're both available on Steam now so I don’t recommend buying a Vita just for those. But Sweet Fuse was only ever in the Vita and PSP and I really enjoyed it!
Oh I may be mistaken, but I think Umbral Star is available physically on the Switch now! Along with Link. I want to say I own one of those now and have the other on my to-buy list. But the Psychedelica games are so good! It's good they're available on steam now - hopefully they'll see Switch or other console ports at some point.
@orbalology Just checked and yeah, Umbral Star is on Switch and PC now, which is cool!
I know Otomate just announced that 7'scarlet is getting a Switch release at least in Japan, and that game is on Steam, too, so there's hope yet for the Psychedelicas to be on the Switch - but we'll have to see if that carries over to the English versions 🙏
There are no games that aren't collectible on a dead system. Except shitty FIFA and co games. Even bad games are collectible. You ever played Taxi 2 on the Dreamcast? It's garbage. It sells for 150€ on Ebay.
Bought the lost child digitally right before it gotten delisted on switch. Haven't played it, just that losing access to it, made me impulse buy it 🫠
On the plus side, it was super cheap, under $10.
Im sorta excited for that Xanadu game. I watch basement bros and he did a video on the pc88 Xanadu game. He's done alot of early falcom games on the channel 🤓
Whenever delistments are announced in advanced I cannot help but try to prioritize them as well - glad you grabbed it for not too much though! I haven't played Tokyo Xanadu yet (even though I have the eX+ version on PS4) but I hear really good things about them. They're often described as cross between Ys gameplay with Trails/Persona social links.
The Tales series of Games is a fantastic series to jump into. The first one that I had played was Tales of Symphonia on my GameCube when I was kid back in the early 2000s. After jailbreaking my vita and finding out about Tales of Hearts R, I had to grab it to relive that real-time party combat game play and awesome story that comes along with it.
It's a good "sit down and play" game, especially if you're on a long flight.
Always nice to see some passion for the Vita, I still think it's the best handheld ever made. Thanks for the show and tell 😊😊😊
I have a sealed copy of Uncharted: Golden Abyss I wish I could send you, but it is pretty much impossible from Argentina.
I could recommend you to try Soul Sacrifice (or Soul Sacrifice Delta, its "enhanced" version). It is a pretty good game and still exclusive to Vita.
Imo, since many of Vita's exclusives was and is being ported to modern console or PC, I don't think it's worthy for new collector in 2024 unless you want to own every PS console..🤔 in that case, it's fine 😊
Thank you for sharing, Emily 🙂
I paid way too much for persona 4 golden, wish I had lacrimosa of Dana instead, but nonetheless have collected heaps of physical vita games over the years!!
Nice collection. Wasn't it a big fan of mobile gaming however. Mainly posture issues after sitting weirdly for a few minutes / 30 minutes.
I wish I could delete Velocity 2X from my mind and play it again. What a perfect little Vita game.
Unfortunately due to Sony shooting themselves in the foot I didn't buy a vita until it was EOL and a modern hack was released. My physical PSP collection is large but Vita games are too hard to find for a reasonable price.
Finally a unique list, gets tiring hearing only persona, uncharted and kill zone every list. Thanks for the recommendations!
It's honestly aggravating that they locked the Muv Luv trilogy Switch port behind a $200-$300 collectors edition. I was hyped when i heard that they were porting it last year amd then they announced that. It's confusing as to why they think this was a good idea. Hopefully it gets a release outside of the collector's edition down the line.
the Japanese version of Uncharted Golden Abyss has English voice and subtitles from what I know, look into it
Dokuro is a nice japanese puzzle game (with english on the cartridge). Hidden gem.
Any game that has a Switch port that isn’t massively improved, is a better option on the Vita for my liking. Because unlike the Switch, the Vita is a full on lean handheld, which makes the portability aspect much more appealing.
I want the physical copy of Shovel Knight, but it's pretty expensive 😅
I wish Vanillaware would port all their games to PC. I have them all emulated, but legit PC copies would be amazing.
I just got a vita and I loved your content! If you had to pick 3 which would you recommend to me? I loved all of the final fantasy games if that helps to narrow it down. Thanks for the response in advance!
20:48 funny how it took the developers 9 years to port it to steam. so i doubt they'll port the sequel in 2033 hahahaha
I'm a PS fan but I never bought a vita, I don't know why and now I'm buying all the consoles for collection and I hope to have the vita soon and see its abilities 🤣😂
love vita videos, other channels i watch that do them all agree, when youve experienced vita, you trulyappreciate it a lot and see how big of a wasted oppertunity it was had sony not given up on it, (for those wondering, xbox performmed a kamikaze at e3 2013 and allowed sony to take the home console throne, so for the whole generation, sony allocated all resources to the ps4, giving up on the handheld market, and while it is sad, we had an incredible generation as the ps4 is now one of the best of all time thanks to the vita's sacrifice lol) but the vita is truly a special device, the switch owes everthing to sonys foundation it left with vita, all vita franchises migrated to switch now, so the vita is truly an important device!
Could you please do a video about collecting Xbox360 games?
I bought a sealed copy of Bad Apple Wars from GameStop the other day for $1 during their clearance sale :o
ohhh that's a great deal
Still have 250+ physical copies for vita but people said there is no games for vita
Just throwing it out there gravity rush and assassins creed liberation work so well on the vita and they're my favorite to play to this day on vita exclusively
I love both Steins Gate and the Zero Escape series, so cool to see you own them physically! Visual Novels are awesome, one of my favourite genres of video games ❤
VNs are so great! Though I do struggle to play them sometimes when I'm in the middle of a book 😅
How did you get games from the future where barely on ps5 and you got psx games already crazy
the steins gate games are amazing and you’re right the original version is better. I’m currently playing muv luv and even if it comes to switch the vita version still has trophies so imo it’s better.
Nice video I'm in the middle I have 2 vita since launch but I recommend hacking
I love the thought and effort you put into your collection. And that shirt is fire! Thank you for you content!
Aww thanks, this is one of my favorite xeno shirts 😆
Great video and wonderful for a reference! I love my Vita and at this point I’m pretty much done collecting for it but there’s the odd game I’d probably still buy for it. Such a nice little system!
hehe hiii
Is it bad I don’t wanna mod mine and stick to only collecting and physical games for it😅
Can someone explain to me how you play a visual novel? Like what is the gameplay like?
Where do you buy your video games games from? It sounds like you get them at a good price.
Hi Emily! This is my first time seeing your channel as this video randomly showed up in my feed. Great to see a fellow Vita collector talk about their favorites. I've owned my Vita a week before launch (Sony did an odd pre-release and came out with the so-called "First Edition" that came with a 4GB card and a copy of Little Deviants which was an Augmented Reality type game that I have yet to open up 😂) Seeing this system from launch all the way up to PSTV and the LCD version, I just wanted to give you some.of my favorites and suggestions as well.
The first three games I picked up within that window are Uncharted: Golden Abyss (absolute must play, I know you will love), Ninja Gaiden Sigma (I know this was released on a ton of consoles but at the time, I wanted it portable so it was a no brained for me) and Unit 13 (This is also a great Vita exclusive shooter and it was the last game created by Zipper Interactive, the team behind SOCOM US Navy Seals). If you like shooters, Unit 13 may be worth it.
As time went on, I got Ragnarok Odyssey (a Phantasy Star Online / Monster Hunter style Action RPG based on the Ragnarok Online series), Dynasty Warriors Next (a decent, well playing game in that series) and Soul Sacrifice (an early exclusive that has a unique sacrificial mechanic that you use to get more powers in hopes of defeating your opponent.)
Like yourself, I also have Muramasa Rebirth (was so glad that game was released because I missed the Wii version) and Tales of Hearts R (which was a Game Stop Exclusive in the US).
Since Vita did not have Monster Hunter, I embraced a lot of excellent, Monster Hunter style Action RPGs on the system. In addition to Ragnarok Odyssey, I also picked up Toukiden: Kiwami (this was a more complete version of Age of Demons that was themed around Samurai, Japanese lore and mythology), the absolutely incredible Freedom Wars (I never played this online but the offline is still a ton of fun, story based and totally worth the playthrough. Think a Cyberpunk-ish Phantasy Star Online meets Attack on Titan with Mecha and robots in place of the Titans and you will get the general idea. Also, it seems enhanced when playing it on the PSTV and can be played with a PS4 controller which makes it feel like a console game). Also, in that genre, as you can probably tell by now, I'm a huge Phantasy Star Online fan as well as Monster Hunter so I imported a fun little single player action RPG called Phantasy Star Nova (which was a combination of efforts between SEGA and Tri-Ace, the team behind the Star Ocean series). Yes, it's in Japanese and in terms of reading, it will be difficult to regular players. However, I'm quite adventurous and will play despite my extreme lack of knowledge when it comes to reading Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Once I got the menus figured out, the game was insane Ina good way! Giant Mecha Prawns with Rail Gina's and missile launchers? Absolutely! Chef Gundam in your party? You better believe it! I've been bugging the hell out of SEGA to localize this for release in the West on the Switch. I truly hope they eventually listen because we have not seen any single player Phantasy Star game since the NDS.
I also really enjoyed Dragons Crown. Originally, it was a times exclusive for the Vita. It has also been released on PS3 and PS4. It may be on Steam and Xbox One but I'm not sure at the moment. Currently, the Vita version is the only way to play that game portably. Along with Muramasa, this is another Vanillaware game I would love to see on Switch. We just recently got a demo for the upcoming Unicorn Overlord so hopefully, that's the sign we need for remaster or ports of other Vanillaware classics.
For anyone who wants to get into importing and likes custom firmware, despite the fact that a lot of RPGs do not have English versions, keep in mind that some games get English Translation patches which help significantly increase the playability of these games.
Anyway, I've rambled for way too long. Great video! Good luck with your channel and I look forward to more upcoming content. I could keep going on as I haven't covered my entire collection but it would take me forever to finish this. Have a great rest of your week and keep up the great work!
Haha, rambling about hobbies is something I'm passionate about too 😂 Hope you have a great weekend!
Why are you beautiful ? Makes it hard, to not like your videos. :D
Is Tom Nook still worth paying in 2024? 🐻
I owned the Vita while owning the PS3, PS4, and 3DS, and I think the only reason that it's called a RPG portable imo is because PSP. People see the Vita, see that had Persona 4 where the updated version was an exclusive and then just assume that it's got the wide variety of RPGs that the PSP did but the system has almost nothing compared to the PSP or its competitor the 3DS. I'm more of a Sony fan, but the Vita was the most disappointing console I've ever purchased next to the Wii U.
But while Vita has a few ports and I really do mean few because as many ports as it has, the 3DS has more exclusives as well as some of the best ports from the DS, atleast where the Atlus published games were concerned.
I own 97 Vita games. I kept throwing money at it to try and justify my Vita collection but it only made me feel worse and I just couldn't stop spending money on it to try and change that.
I will say though that the Vita does have one of the best RPG dungeon crawlers ever made imo. Not something you can play in public due to its extreme oversexualization, which is also not the reason it's one of my favorite dungeon crawlers, but the class system, combat, and overall design puts it easily at the the top 10 in the genre at the very least. That game is Dungeon Travelers 2. Dungeon Travelers 2 has multiple characters throughout the game that can be one of the base classes of a specific class. The game has 16 characters, one character for every single advanced class in the game, however, every character can be any class in their particular class type. Each base class can upgrade into two classes, and each of those can upgrade into another three advance classes based on the second tier of classes you chose to upgrade to, except for the mages which can upgrade to three different classes and then those can upgrade to up to four classes.
Dungeon Travelers 2 is developed by Sting, but if you want a game that I find extremely similair in design to the point that I thought Sting developed it(and simply because I've never once liked a Compile Heart game until I finally played it,) but a series of games you'll actually find similar to Dungeon Travelers 2's class system is the Mary Skelter games. The Mary Skelter games start off where you can choose one of several classes for your characters and each skill you learn from each class carries over to any of your other classes, allowing you to build your characters around all of the available skills you can gain and in some cases you'll have physical classes that have magic skills which are good to learn and carry over to a magic class. While each character in Dungeon Travelers 2 is sort of a class type upgrade to their original base class, your skills from each new skill tier is added on each class up.
I'll have to bump up Dungeon Travelers 2 on my priority list, thanks!
Recently bought a Vita and oh man i love it hacked it because its so easy and now everywhere i go i take it with meee
Never got a vita, It flew under the radar for me for some reason maybe. Just thought it was a fancier psp kinda Ike i thought the Wii U was just another version of the Wii.
Companies should consider better names to avoid confusion like this 😅
I bought a Vita and Persona 4 Golden in a Black Friday sale a decade ago and for nearly that entire decade P4G was the only game I owned for it. It wasn't until some time last year while I was on a long travel trip that I visited some retro games store and saw among their stock the Vita versions for Final Fantasy X/X2 Collection and the standalone Virtue's Last Reward part of Nonary Games and thought "Eh...why not? Like I already own both of those on other consoles but I may as well buy them so that I have more than literally one game for this console after 10 years." Though I barely played the console when I got it and then just put it back in the box and onto my shelf where it proceeded to sit for years to present day. At least I own 3 games for it now. (Though I also did order the LRG Switch release for P4G)
Hope you can find some games you don't own on other consoles to help fill out your library a little!
Would you be willing to read Digimon Seekers and give your opinion on it?
Thanks for the recommendations! I will definitely be looking into some of the jrpgs you mentioned! I didn’t buy my Vita until 2020, more or less just to put it in my handheld collection, but I ended up really loving the system and wishing I had picked it up when it was more current. The OLED display is just stunning and I absolutely loved playing the first 2 Danganronpas on it.
The OLED screen is really nice!! The handheld was so ahead of it's time 😭 Hope you can grab some more titles to enjoy on it :)
I like your xenoblade 2 shirt do you know where I can get it?
I got this particular shirt off a Yetee special, however the artist CoinboxTees I believe offers it in another color variant either on their etsy shop or TeePublic page :)
I still play my vita most days.....more than my PS5 👀
Impulse buys are the best. The "f*ck it, let's do this" mindset is incomparable.
Also, Tales of Hearts is... ehh. Unfortunately.
Ah, that's too bad about Tales of Heart R. Maybe that makes it even more unlikely that we'll see a port anytime soon.
Oh how I love when people start to support a console after it's been discontinued.
Oh my god... What's wrong with people?
Why wouldn't people support consoles when they were active?
I got 70+ Games that I bought when the vita was active and alive.
Got two OG oled 3G vitas in pristine condition too, I'm never selling any of it, especially not to people who weren't there supporting the platform when it actually mattered.
Good video though...
It's kinda weird for you to be upset over a broke college student unable to afford a vita when it originally came out. But go off I guess.
I was with the vita since launch. I have over 40 physical titles. Vita store is still up, so you can snag some great ps1 or psp titles to play on the device. The rachet and clank collection is a good one for the system.
It’s crazy how expensive the physical copy of the Ratchet and clank trilogy is. A couple years ago, it was going for $100+.
@@lesterbronson2385 oh I know, I actually ended up paying close to that, but I found it in the wild. There was only a European physical release, I'm in the states. So I'd say a rare find. Heck finding vita games in person can be a tall order. Just started playing it finally. Never played a rachet game.
Does the Rachet & Clank collection run well? Or is it similar to the Jak collection that apparently runs super poorly?
@@orbalology I would say it runs quite well. Good enough that upon testing and played for an hour. Performs much better than jak or God of war collection. Not sure how sly collection runs.
I would recommend the Danganronpa games on vita, those are pretty fun. Also check out Shantae Half Genie Hero if you like 2d sidescrollers.
I have those on the Switch actually! Though unfortunately the Switch version for the Danganronpa collection has a bit of a download.
I really wish the Vita store had more PSP titles here, i believe the US has a really good list but the UK only has a few of the great PSP titles. Its sad that Sony just let the Vita die, its launch lineup were kinda the only exciting games we got.
(I haven't looked into it much myself but I have heard the localisation with the P4G ports is questionable. So maybe if you are picky about that stuff then the Vita version would be worth it.)
I think Sony is trying to make most of their older titles available via subscription service... which is not a direction I particularly like :/
We own 194 Vita games. So many JRPGs. Someday we're going to retire and my wife (who also plays JRPGs) and I will just sit in a house somewhere and play RPGs for the rest of our days. Maybe then we'll catch up.
This is the deity hi just wanted to say I like your collection
Im 28 vita games away from the full North America set. I’ve been working on it for 6 years. I have a total of 345 vita games.
good luck on getting them, thats really cool 👍👍
Really nicely spoken and structred video
Vita have a lot of potential. I been having my vita for 7 years and still of the best handheld ever. Nice ps vita collection. The first 3 games i bought was BlazBlue chronophantasma extend, MK9 and call of duty declassified.
Whether vita games available for mod switch
Attack on Titans creator was heavily influenced by Muv Luv to create the show. I picked up the games a while back for that reason alone.
I did the same and while the first one lets you wondering how? after playing alternative you really see the inspiration.
Oh I wasn't aware of that. Very interesting!
wow i got the same setup, a modded slim white and a 1000 model for the physical games i got. I love Vita content, keep it up! Btw I got one hidden gem recommendation: Epic Mickey 2 physical, the price of this game is probably going to the moon because they are going to remaster the first one for the current gen consoles, so be quick :)
I never own any playstation hand held but I do like that a lot of these are coming to switch
I'm fairly new to them too, having grown up with the Nintendo handhelds. The vita itself is a pretty neat system that seemed to be ahead of it's time. But it's nice that many of these games are now getting ported to the Switch since it's much more accessible on there.
definitely more varied than the PS5 library
Gravity rush on the Vita is definitely the way to play it
I play Monster Hunter Frontier
Wipeout Omega Collection (released on PS4) is probably the premier Wipeout game to get at this point. It's more or less a compendium of the two Wipeout games for the PSP (Wipeout Pure & Pulse) and Wipeout 2048 for the Vita. Runs at 4k/60hz on PS5 if you fancy that.
You should try being a VA (voice actress). You have a very soothing voice.
Ah, I feel like my voice is too boring for voice acting 😅
I loooooooved gravity rush on the psvita! I wish it was on steam to play on the steam deck now 😭
I'm surprised Sony hasn't made that available on PC yet tbh.
Please I want a PS Vita for free I leave in Botswana😢❤
Hi Emily. Awesome video always. I think I figured out why I love your videos so much even though I don't have a Vita or have played any of those RPG games. I think it's because you are so knowledgeable & you educate me in all of your videos you do.
Thanks! I try my best to share what I've learned about a certain thing to make it digestible (and hopefully interesting).
@@orbalology You're very captivating for sure. I would say interesting a lot. You would have to be interesting for me to watch a gaming Genre I am not into.
I don’t know how I missed this! Still not necessarily a vita person. But I appreciate all the work you put into this video.
I was happy to grab Night Trap a few years back. To my knowledge it’s one of the handful of FMV games that made to the Vita. Highly recommended. Or not.
Metal slug 3 is my favorite game on ps vita
I bought a Vita Slim last year and only played maybe 10 hours or so in a year. But now I play it more than my Switch OLED lol. I really love PS Vita after finding out I can increase games performance by overclocking it. That's a nice feature on a modded Vita.
Tearaway was so much fun on the Vita! I’ve been debating trying the PS4 version… hopefully the new control scheme isn’t too much of a downgrade 🤞
I wish I had girlfriend like you…
It's worth it. My collection is for keeps. I got Horizon Chase Turbo as part of my physical collection.
The PS Vita was definitely my favorite console to collect for as someone who is a fan of rhythm games, visual novels, and JRPGs.
While collecting for the console can be expensive, it got me interested in game importing, something I have carried over to my Switch collection.
Definitely get Gravity Rush for the Vita, such a great way to experience the game, and easily my favorite Vita title.
Furthermore, Dungeon Traveler's 2 is definitely worth playing. As someone who previously never played a DRPG, the game is surprising deep with character build customization and is very
friendly to new players of the genre. Once you get past the excessive fan service, there's a solid game there, glad I gave it a chance.
Finally, getting Trails of Cold Steel 1 + 2 on the Vita & PS3 allows you to take advantage of the cross save feature, weird that Sony didn't promote this more since it was basically a precursor to what the Nintendo Switch does.
Had to dump half of my physical Vita collection, but it’s such a rad system
It's a really nice handheld! But I don't blame you for wanting to size down the collection.
Your video sounds incredible! Would you mind telling me what kind of mic you're using?
I'm using the Rode VideoMic NTG
I really enjoyed Persona 4. I kinda hope it gets a full remake like Persona 3 did.
tbh I hope they won't remake it for some time (as I still need to play one of the two versions I now own lol). I think it may be time for Atlus to focus on Persona 6 too (hopefully).
You absolutely have to pick up Dungeon Travelers 2 on the Vita! The game is amazing and has already been turned away from Steam. So its the only way it is currently really playable. Grab that one sooner rather than later. It's actually a quality Dungeon Crawler.
Shocked people still buy physical vita game. What’s the point?
People just enjoy having something physical but I do agree to an extent especially when you're buying games for a dead System your money is not going to the developers or the publisher so I see no problem using PKGJ for example If there's a better enhanced version of a game on switch, PS4, PS5 or PC I'll happily buy it there
Anyway your from Wisconsin lol?
My favorites are gravity, persona 4 golden, tearaway, hotline Miami, and dragon crown. I don't modd my systems or even buy them that way but with the handhelds I definitely have them modded because that's a must have because I love my jrpg. I got quite a few from Japan and their games seem better than our ps vita games in North America. It was a great handheld and still is. I play it everyday when I get the chance
Gravity Rush is the main reason I bought myself a Vita and I wasn't disappointed.
Hey! New subscriber. Just found your channel today. Enjoying your content so far. That's all, thanks!