Its mix of dungeon-crawling, relationship-building and time-management proved to be a massive hit and it’s all underpinned by a solid turn-based battle system focusing on elemental weaknesses and summoning mysterious personas – the formula went on to inspire many other Vita games over the following years.Įxamples of this include things like Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars, a JRPG that features a similar aesthetic but different mechanics (including the infamous “classmating” system when two high-school students can join together to give birth to a “star child”) and Mind=0, a gridder that seems heavily influenced by both Persona 3 and Persona 4 in both its story and aesthetic. Taking place in the fictional town of Inaba, you play as a new student who has come to live in the area for a year and becomes embroiled with solving a spree of murders and the supernatural circumstances that surround them. So I’ve already mentioned it above, but the turn-based RPG – and arguably game – that defined Vita’s life is undoubtedly Persona 4 Golden, an expanded port of one of the PS2’s most beloved titles.
Disgaea) will be given separate articles of their own down the line. Shiren the Wanderer) and strategy games (i.e. Please note – while I will be including first-person dungeon crawlers such as Demon Gaze here, things like roguelikes (i.e. While I’d hope that readers of my articles have realised that the console offers so much more than this, it’s hard to deny that it built up an amazing ecosystem for role-playing games over the years – mostly spear-headed by the early release of Persona 4 Golden in 2012.Īs a result of there being so many RPG’s on Vita, I’ve had to split this article up – I’ll be looking at all the turn-based entries in the genre here and I’ll dedicate a separate piece to action-RPG’s some time in the future. If you ask the average gaming forum user, they’ll probably say that Vita was only a good place to play if you like indie games, visual novels and of course Japanese RPG’s. from the EU or NA stores), as well as some commentary on how well those games run on Vita and whether they fill any missing gaps in the library.
The articles will highlight all Vita-native games, as well as any backwards-compatible PSP and PS1 titles which can be downloaded in English (i.e. The ninth in a series of articles I’m writing, looking at all the games available in a particular genre on Vita.
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