The best PS Vita games of all time

Vita may mean life, but it’s clear that the PlayStation Vita is now dead and buried. That wasn’t for lack of trying, though. Even when pitted against the best 3DS games, the Vita’s impressive library was way ahead of its time. It took what made the PlayStation Portable so great and doubled down on it by making it more powerful, with a better screen and that all-important second analog stick.

There is a lot of crossover between the best PS3 games, best PS4 games, and Vita games since many were cross-platform titles. Still, the Vita had plenty of amazing exclusives to call its own. Even some multiplatform games felt more at home on the handheld. Despite an untimely death, the Vita had some of the best games of all time on it, so let’s celebrate the life of the Vita by looking at just some of those games.

Persona 4 Golden

95% Platforms PlayStation Vita Genre Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Visual Novel Developer Atlus Publisher NIS America, Atlus USA, Atlus Release June 15, 2012 One of the best JRPGs of all time, Persona 4 originally launched on PlayStation 2, but it found new life on the Vita as Persona 4 Golden. The game includes more content than the original version, with a sprawling story that can take hundreds of hours to get through if players are being methodical. Its unique flair and style are pure Atlus, and its darker and mature plotline will feel more appropriate for players who think they’ve grown out of most JRPGs. Persona 4 Golden is also the perfect game to play before jumping into Persona 5, which is available on PS4 and has received similar acclaim. Persona 4 Golden: E3 Trailer

Tearaway

83% Platforms PlayStation Vita Genre Platform, Adventure Developer Media Molecule Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Release November 20, 2013 One of Media Molecule’s best and most creative games to date, Tearaway is a 3D platformer set in a papercraft world. As players progress through the environments, they’ll need to peel, cut, and rearrange paper objects to