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While Pac-Man 256 is hardly award-winning fare, it’s a mobile-to-home port done right, with just the right amount of content (without necessary in-game purchases) and some cool multiplayer to go along with the endless running. You’ll more than likely play it in spurts, but that’s just how Hipster Whale designed it anyway, so no biggie. It’s an enjoyable twist on a classic game that brings it into the here and now – and, at the very least, gives us something to do until the next Pac-Man Championship Edition rolls around.
If you can handle the crude and immature humor, and you’d like something a little more lighthearted, you could definitely do much worse.
This is easily one of my favorite Star Wars games to date – and just imagine what these guys could do with Rogue One or Episode VIII. We're waiting…
Zero Time Dilemma carries some deep themes of morality, mortality, and identity, making for an intelligent, worthy story.
Fenix Furia is an awesome experiment, but needs something I just can’t explain to solidify it as a classic for this age.
Party Hard does have its merits with unlockable characters and extra challenges, but that's if you can deal with its technical problems and heinous difficulty. If that sounds like a party to you, have at it.
Ray Gigant is by no means one of the best RPGs, even in the Vita’s small library. Yet, it’s charming and its style is unique enough to warrant a playthrough.
For anyone looking for a solid platforming experience, I would avoid Trial by Viking like the plague.
Overall, Stranger of Sword City is quite a good game for those looking for a nice dungeon-crawling RPG.
Battleborn does have its hiccups with required online connectivity, dialogue and some odd character choices. But the positive far outweighs the negative, with exciting gameplay, fun multiplayer components for both local and online play, and fantastic level design.
Mini Mario and Friends: Amiibo Challenge is delightful, relaxing, and still remains challenging enough with its puzzles.
Between the puzzles that need to be solved throughout this world (enough to fill up a few hours’ worth of gameplay), enthralling battles and a superb presentation, Severed gives you another good reason to cherish your Vita.
Axiom Verge is an interesting tribute to the classics of video games that will, without a doubt, stand among those greats as a classic itself.
Players who speak highly of games like Etrian Odyssey on the 3DS or those who played a ton of Eye of the Beholder back in the day may fall in love with the crazy monsters and style of Stranger of Sword City.
To be straightforward this is a one-of-a-kind game that is worth coming back to even after you've beaten it.
Stardew Valley is an extremely charming, polished, and nuanced game that is a breath of fresh air in the management game genre and the entire games industry as a whole. I don't think I've had so much stress-free fun in a game for years, and would highly recommend it to anyone.
I would love to see Shantae released as a physical copy, due to my collecting habits, to put her newest adventure on the shelf with the greats, where she belongs.
There's enough online action and learnable stuff here to make Street Fighter V a decent purchase, but you can't sit there and tell me that Capcom couldn't have delayed this until everything was ready in June and benefitted for the greater because of it. There's just no way.
It's literally everything you could want in a party game – and for the first time in quite a while, you can bring the kids, too.
Hey, sometimes you need to take it back to the old-school and remember what survival is all about – and that's just what Primal does.