My quick Vita impressions:
Hardware:
Amazing. Feels more solid, yet somehow slimmer than PSP. Battery life has been great so far. And that screen!
OS:
I'm not a fan of the circles. They especially look rough on PSP games. Also why are Friends and Trophies lists separate apps instead of being built into the UI?
Ridge Racer:
Disappointing frame rate. They better patch that shit. Love the worldwide team battles, though, and having the game setup like this is actually making me improve on each track from the very start, rather than playing through 10 hrs of piss easy GPs before needing to improve my skills.
Minna no Golf 6:
This is gonna be my go-to game for a long time. Really quick play, and so much stuff to unlock. The graphics are stunning too. Not tried online yet, but I think the lobbies and Internet matches are like the old MinGol Online on PS2, so it should be fine.
Katamari Damashi no Vita:
This will come down to content more than anything, and I haven't got far enough to judge that, but already the music has been top notch. Love the additional controls to stretch the katamari in both directions. It makes it much easier to get into hard-to-reach places, like under tables when you're too big. Also the framerate is great.
Welcome Park:
The number tapping mini games aren't much to write home about, but there is a great sampling tool, where you can build up some multi-layered sounds really easily, and it's quite fun as a sound toy. You can also take pictures of stuff that looks like faces (two eyes & a mouth), and it will animate as it talks to you.
Near:
I don't quite get what this is for yet. I have received one present so far, which was a human challenge for Katamari, so it has some use in that respect, but I don't really know what I'm supposed to do with the rest of it.
PSP emulation:
This is really pretty awesome. Love the options for mapping the right analog stick, and the colour space used adds a lot of life to old games. The bilinear filtering looks great on both 3D and 2D games.
PC Engine archives:
These work pretty well. The great thing about Vita compared to PSP is its screen. No more ghosting in Gradius
Pretty sure the archives stuff is just using PSP emulation, which already includes PC Engine/PSone emulation as a subset though. The only thing I'm not sure about is why PSone games are not available yet - maybe they're just trying to give the more expensive Vita/PSP games a chance to sell before they open the floodgates.
Hardware:
Amazing. Feels more solid, yet somehow slimmer than PSP. Battery life has been great so far. And that screen!
OS:
I'm not a fan of the circles. They especially look rough on PSP games. Also why are Friends and Trophies lists separate apps instead of being built into the UI?
Ridge Racer:
Disappointing frame rate. They better patch that shit. Love the worldwide team battles, though, and having the game setup like this is actually making me improve on each track from the very start, rather than playing through 10 hrs of piss easy GPs before needing to improve my skills.
Minna no Golf 6:
This is gonna be my go-to game for a long time. Really quick play, and so much stuff to unlock. The graphics are stunning too. Not tried online yet, but I think the lobbies and Internet matches are like the old MinGol Online on PS2, so it should be fine.
Katamari Damashi no Vita:
This will come down to content more than anything, and I haven't got far enough to judge that, but already the music has been top notch. Love the additional controls to stretch the katamari in both directions. It makes it much easier to get into hard-to-reach places, like under tables when you're too big. Also the framerate is great.
Welcome Park:
The number tapping mini games aren't much to write home about, but there is a great sampling tool, where you can build up some multi-layered sounds really easily, and it's quite fun as a sound toy. You can also take pictures of stuff that looks like faces (two eyes & a mouth), and it will animate as it talks to you.
Near:
I don't quite get what this is for yet. I have received one present so far, which was a human challenge for Katamari, so it has some use in that respect, but I don't really know what I'm supposed to do with the rest of it.
PSP emulation:
This is really pretty awesome. Love the options for mapping the right analog stick, and the colour space used adds a lot of life to old games. The bilinear filtering looks great on both 3D and 2D games.
PC Engine archives:
These work pretty well. The great thing about Vita compared to PSP is its screen. No more ghosting in Gradius
Pretty sure the archives stuff is just using PSP emulation, which already includes PC Engine/PSone emulation as a subset though. The only thing I'm not sure about is why PSone games are not available yet - maybe they're just trying to give the more expensive Vita/PSP games a chance to sell before they open the floodgates.
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