Killzone: Mercenary review: Guerrilla Cambridge's Vita shooter nailed portable combat and contract missions, but its 2022 server closure cost it half the game.
Alone With You review: a dying colony, one broken escape pod, and dead specialists you rebuild to escape. Benjamin Rivers' 2016 sci-fi romance scores 7.3/10.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night review: the rhythm spin-off turns the Investigation Team into dancers, with a story mode, Free Dance, and a 7.8 score.
Soul Sacrifice, the 2013 PS Vita action RPG by Keiji Inafune, made every spell cost a piece of your body. We review its brutal design and 7.6 score.
OlliOlli review: Roll7's one-life skateboarding game on Vita, its perfect-landing scoring, Daily Grind, ports, sequels, and a 7.9 score.
Stranger of Sword City review: Experience Inc.'s first-person dungeon crawler for Vita, Xbox and PC, where class changes cut levels and traps punish every step.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss, the 2011 PlayStation Vita launch prequel by Bend Studio, reviewed: story, touch controls, Nolan North, and its 8.1/10 legacy.
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows review: two girls, one flashlight, and a town that turns hostile after dark. Nippon Ichi's survival horror earns its scares.
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack review — DrinkBox's Vita launch platformer where eating makes you grow, now on Switch, PC and more. Score: 8.3/10.
Samurai Warriors 4 review: Omega Force's 2014 tenth-anniversary hack and slash with character-switching, Hyper Attacks and 55 playable fighters.
A Rose in the Twilight review: Nippon Ichi's 2016 puzzle-platformer uses four colors, a giant, and a cursed girl to build one of gaming's quietest horrors.
Gravity Rush on PS Vita turned falling into poetry, and Kat's refusal to be owned still lands. A review of the 2012 handheld classic and its legacy.
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