Funyarinpa
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This is a dedicated backlog thread for the Vita, the handheld who lived.
Now, there isn't much meaning to a thread full of lists without no explanation whatsoever, is there? So please, include stuff like:
-Impressions for titles you've already played,
-Expectations for titles you haven't played at all yet or why you bought them,
-Estimations for when you'll be done with your current backlog ("never" is an invalid answer
)
My backlog is as follows:
-Persona 3 Portable (Clocked 20hr, est. at least 50hr more)
After falling in love with Persona 4 Golden which became one of my top 3-4 games of all time (can't decide between P4G and Danganronpa 2 for spot #2), I couldn't resist the allure of Persona for much more than a month (finished P4G on last New Year's Eve). It's been five days since I bought the game and I've already spent 30 hours on it. The thing is, I restarted as FeMC after playing as the P3MC for 10 hours so I only have 20 hours on my current save. FeMC seems to be a better fit, the P3MC is a bit too apathetic for my tastes. Will surely replay as him down the line though, hopefully in a definitive Vita remaster of Persona 3. Loving it so far, the highlights are the incredibly stylish combat and the overarching plot. The cast isn't as memorable as in P4G, but still god tier. As for the inevitable question of best girl, it's a triple dilemma between Mitsuru, Fuuka and FeMC so far. (best guy is Shinjiro <3)
-Final Fantasy VII (4hr clocked, est. 45-50 hours)
FFVII is quite likely the most revered RPG that I haven't played before. I'm a sucker for handhelds, so when unexpectedly both Persona 3 Portable and FF7 went on sale (was going to buy P3P for $20, but P3P went down to $15 and FF7 was $5, so ended up getting both) I ended up splurging on both of them. I was expecting to find FF7 very overrated since the story didn't sound that appealing from the outset, but actually except for the AGONIZING character models (I can't help but think of them as Lego), this game looks, sounds and plays great. The story is quite enjoyable too. I've always hated PSX era's graphics, but on Vita it just looks... artistic, like a mixture of painting-like environments and pixel art. Unfortunately, it can't salvage Cloud's overworld sprite but no other complaints so far. I still wonder if I should've gotten FF6 instead since I mainly wanted to play it for the story, but that's $10 so I'll just buy it somewhere down the line.
-Soul Sacrifice (unknown, on the order of 50 more hours to finish the story)
I've had this game since June. I'm in love with its lore, in fact, it has my favorite lore in all of gaming. The lore blends into the game mechanics incredibly smoothly as well. However, I have a problem with this game- and that is the gameplay. I'm not saying it's not enjoyable (because it is, going for 85 Magic / 15 Life). Offering fusion, the Archfiends, the combat- I enjoy it greatly, but I'm bad at it. The story sounds amazing and I want to read of the rest of it like crazy, but I'm stuck at an Archfiend and I can't progress. I'm grinding like crazy but I can still get Legendary Sorcerer rank only on 1* Archfiends. I keep getting stuck so it keeps going into the back burner despite how good it is.
-Samurai Warriors 4 (Clocked 3-5 hr or so, est. 50 hr for all campaigns with the characters I want to play as)
I just want to play as cute girls and fuck hundreds of soldiers' shit up. With swords and combos. Crazy amount of content, wonderful stress relief (and guilty pleasure). Don't think I'll be deleting it from my Vita soon.
ESTIMATION
I have 250 hours or so of RPG content before me. Assuming I don't get burnout, gaming on my Vita for 2 hours every day would mean that it'd take me 4 MONTHS AND 5 DAYS to go through my Vita backlog.
I understand that many people here have far bigger Vita backlogs than mine, so if that is the case feel free to just talk about some highlights.
Now, there isn't much meaning to a thread full of lists without no explanation whatsoever, is there? So please, include stuff like:
-Impressions for titles you've already played,
-Expectations for titles you haven't played at all yet or why you bought them,
-Estimations for when you'll be done with your current backlog ("never" is an invalid answer
)My backlog is as follows:
-Persona 3 Portable (Clocked 20hr, est. at least 50hr more)
After falling in love with Persona 4 Golden which became one of my top 3-4 games of all time (can't decide between P4G and Danganronpa 2 for spot #2), I couldn't resist the allure of Persona for much more than a month (finished P4G on last New Year's Eve). It's been five days since I bought the game and I've already spent 30 hours on it. The thing is, I restarted as FeMC after playing as the P3MC for 10 hours so I only have 20 hours on my current save. FeMC seems to be a better fit, the P3MC is a bit too apathetic for my tastes. Will surely replay as him down the line though, hopefully in a definitive Vita remaster of Persona 3. Loving it so far, the highlights are the incredibly stylish combat and the overarching plot. The cast isn't as memorable as in P4G, but still god tier. As for the inevitable question of best girl, it's a triple dilemma between Mitsuru, Fuuka and FeMC so far.
(best guy is Shinjiro <3)-Final Fantasy VII (4hr clocked, est. 45-50 hours)
FFVII is quite likely the most revered RPG that I haven't played before. I'm a sucker for handhelds, so when unexpectedly both Persona 3 Portable and FF7 went on sale (was going to buy P3P for $20, but P3P went down to $15 and FF7 was $5, so ended up getting both) I ended up splurging on both of them. I was expecting to find FF7 very overrated since the story didn't sound that appealing from the outset, but actually except for the AGONIZING character models (I can't help but think of them as Lego), this game looks, sounds and plays great. The story is quite enjoyable too. I've always hated PSX era's graphics, but on Vita it just looks... artistic, like a mixture of painting-like environments and pixel art. Unfortunately, it can't salvage Cloud's overworld sprite but no other complaints so far. I still wonder if I should've gotten FF6 instead since I mainly wanted to play it for the story, but that's $10 so I'll just buy it somewhere down the line.
-Soul Sacrifice (unknown, on the order of 50 more hours to finish the story)
I've had this game since June. I'm in love with its lore, in fact, it has my favorite lore in all of gaming. The lore blends into the game mechanics incredibly smoothly as well. However, I have a problem with this game- and that is the gameplay. I'm not saying it's not enjoyable (because it is, going for 85 Magic / 15 Life). Offering fusion, the Archfiends, the combat- I enjoy it greatly, but I'm bad at it. The story sounds amazing and I want to read of the rest of it like crazy, but I'm stuck at an Archfiend and I can't progress. I'm grinding like crazy but I can still get Legendary Sorcerer rank only on 1* Archfiends. I keep getting stuck so it keeps going into the back burner despite how good it is.
-Samurai Warriors 4 (Clocked 3-5 hr or so, est. 50 hr for all campaigns with the characters I want to play as)
I just want to play as cute girls and fuck hundreds of soldiers' shit up. With swords and combos. Crazy amount of content, wonderful stress relief (and guilty pleasure). Don't think I'll be deleting it from my Vita soon.
ESTIMATION
I have 250 hours or so of RPG content before me. Assuming I don't get burnout, gaming on my Vita for 2 hours every day would mean that it'd take me 4 MONTHS AND 5 DAYS to go through my Vita backlog.
I understand that many people here have far bigger Vita backlogs than mine, so if that is the case feel free to just talk about some highlights.
