Beast Legacy
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Oh wow, that sounds really cool. I miss single player content in fighters. Seems like they are mostly onlinecentric now.
The devs seem to want it to go online (e.g. profile building with costumes, colors and gem loadouts in SFxT, avatar-centric lobby system in MK) while the tourney players want features and focus for offline versus play, so unfortunately single player fighter folks get left behind most of the time.
The story mode in MK is a decent length and is a fun retelling of MK1-3, but after you're done there's no reason to go back to it. The challenge towers are decent pick up and play distractions when you're commuting and on the go like me. Though be warned that some challenges can be a pain even with prior fighting game experience because for some challenges, those skills won't even translate. You can skip a challenge by using Gold accumulated through any of the game modes though, so if you're completely stuck there's that option.
Overall it's the best fighter on the Vita in terms of single player content for sure, but after the story mode is done the challenge towers are all you've got, no card collecting Heroes and Heralds type mode where you hope to fight and collect cards to try different effects. You certainly fight a lot in the challenge tower, but it's mostly made up of silly minigames that may or may not get tiresome depending on your tastes. It's not the prettiest looking fighter on the Vita at all (think PSP graphical prowess) but it plays like and contains everything the console versions had minus the lobby system for online group play.
I would also recommend looking into the Blazblue game for the Vita as the console versions have long dialogue heavy story modes, but I can't personally vouch for the Vita version as I haven't played it.
Is there enough of an online community for SFxT and UMVC3?
I can usually get a match in UMvC3 but the quality of the matches vary. I don't know about SFxT as I don't have it.
Edit: I got top of the page so I guess obligatory "BUY PERSONA 4 GOLDEN" goes here.