Ranking EVERY PS VITA JRPG Ever Made! (Tier List)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is my massive tier list of every single PS Vita JRPG released outside of Japan. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in North America.
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Utawarerumono is actually a complete trilogy on the Vita. Prelude to the Fallen (remake of the first game) got a digital only release in 2020.
which tbh is still my favorite so far but i havent gotten to the last one
And they're at least B-tier games, maybe A tier.
Ssssss@@Vulpas
Fun fact about Conception II, it was built using the Persona 3 portable engine, so to me it's like a total overhaul of Persona 3 and I find that pretty cool. The game itself actually has decently deep mechanics when it comes to team building if you're into that sort of thing.
Persona 4 Golden deserves S tier alongside Trails
Absolutely.
I'd argue that Ar Nosurge Plus should be right up there as well.
PS Vita so underrated...especially since you can play psp, ps1 games and some android ports on it.
Plus soul sacrifice is amazing and much more than just a "monster hunter clone"
When people do these videos I wish they'd post a screenshot of the final rankings. They're hard AF to read on UA-cam, even blown up.
Why? So you can just skip to the end?
@@CalebPorter1105 To check these once more
@@CalebPorter1105 So I can revisit the list without having to rewatch the video? Also, even if it was to skip to the end wtf do you care? Erik still gets his click even if I skip to the end.
@@alanscott2517 Why revisit a video like this honestly other than to post comments? Also, I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure there are things that track how long people actually watch the video for which goes into various things. On top of everything else, if you've watched his videos for any amount of time, besides a few things here and there, like 75% percent of this was pretty much already what you know of Erick's opinions on these games. Especially when half of the games are literally just, "Eh. PS4 version's better."
@@alanscott2517 no watchtime matters as well some one that watches 50 minutes and some that watches 3 minutes have a lot of differences
The reason for the Accel World & SAO crossover is because the two series are written by the same author, and the rights for both are with the same publisher.
That makes it really easy to make a crossover.
Thank you so much! I just got a Vita today and this has really helped me prioritize my future games! 😁
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The reason they made a Accel World/SAO crossover is because they were written by the same author and play in the same world with Accel being the future of SAO(The anime even featured the Nervegear in a book about old VR-Models).
tbh i quite love Digimon Cyber sleuth. the story driven really caught me, there is is do many side quest but its just remind me of old Digimon World 3. The Utawarerumono Trilogy is quite good too. i love the False mask and Mask of the truth.
I just want to say, thank you for your recommendations, Erick. So many games to try out that I didn't know existed on the Vita!
That's beautiful. Thank you for compiling jrpgs. You forgot the Fate/extella Games. Im not sure if they're strictly Rpgs. I'd say they're hack n' slash jrpgs. And they're good games.
Ys Celceta on Vita is a blast.
I'm pretty sure the Accel World anime takes place in the future of the same world as Sword Art Online. That's why there is a crossover.
Chapters on all these videos would be supremely helpful. You could even use amazon affiliate links and make a bit of dough, since I use your videos as a buying guide.
Tokyo Xanadu was solidly ranked. The one reason major reason I stuck with it was the character system relation to the trails;CS series. It's even got our CS mascot, Towa fully recasted. And the character bio collections and mini side-stories for every npc that updates over the course of the game. Great attention to detail ^^ Def not on the same level as the trails series on the whole, but still charming nonetheless.
Great list, can't wait to go through it S tier down, thank you for not being a metacritic rehasher 🙏🙏🙏
Natural Doctrine is quite fun once you understand the battle mechanics.
Nihon Falcom is reserved on the S tier
Epic, but there are three Utawarerumono titles on the PS Vita. Mask of Truth and Mask of Deception were released physically in the US. Prelude to the Fallen was released digitally only in the US, though I think it may have had a physical release in Asia/Japan.
Natural Doctrine is a masterpiece, one of my favourites in the system.
oh boy cant wait to watch this, soul sacrifice is my favorite vita game!
Wow! Just wow! This was so cool video!
I love PS Vita. I like JRPGs and now I know what to play!
Thank you for your video!
Surprised to see dungeon travels in E I haven’t played it but my friend says it’s her favorite vita game
Awesome! Thanks for this Erick
Hi Erick, couldnt wait for this list of VitaJRPGs, love it, thanks so much putting all that together.
Well, I understand that this is your list and your opinion, but, for real, giving a lowest grade to Dungeon Travelers 2, which is one of, if not the best dungeon crawlers on vita - challenging, like the old-school crawlers, with a lot of variety in builds and mechanics, plus also with a massive amount of post-game is a sin, imo
Yeah, gotta agree. I've plat'd every drpg on vita (even relatively bland ones like Mind zero) and DT2 is solid. Not perfect, but lots of good ideas and solid maps.
No, it's NOT as good as you claim it is. And this is coming from someone who actually likes it and has it also for pc.
Hell yeah!!! One of my most anticipated videos!
Gonna disagree on Dungeon Traveler 2. I'm not even a fan of the over the top ecchi character designs, but as a DRPG it has a ton of content and the combat system is quite fun with plenty of team and character customization. Definitely doesn't belong in the same tier as something like Mei Q, solid C tier for me.
Estaría padre que hicieras (digo, si no es mucha molestia) un "ranking Every 3DS JRPG ever made!", no si si ya exista uno pero almenos en la playlist de los rankings de varias consolas no vi alguno.
I'm happy to see someone else liked Exist Archive, too.
actually Utawarerumono have 3 versions, 1 Mask of Deception, 2 Mask of Truth, and 3 Prelude to the Fallen which is just released in 2020. I don't play 1-2 but the 3 is absolutely the best game imo. It's kinna slow at first and a lot of dialouges that can make you sleep, and you have to watch 30 minutes cutscene to play a mission. But the combat system is a gem. A rank for me.
Utawarerumono is my 2nd favorite series right behind Persona. They're fantastic games that really don't get enough attention.
Prelude to the Fallen is actually a remake of the original "Utawarerumono" game (plot is literally the same with the same CGs just with the Deception and Truth graphics engine) and there is even a full anime of the original game and Mask of Deception has an anime while Mask of Truth is getting an anime soon as well. The other two happen about 15-16 years after the first one in a different country with a lot of the characters and lore of the first game returning somewhat indirectly. You definitely should play Prelude before playing Mask of Truth though. The events of the first game become really important toward the end of Truth.
There is also a new game coming out soon called Monochrome Moebius which is a prequel showing the past of the country in Deception and Truth plus the developers said there are other Utawarerumono things in the works. So if you are a fan of this series the future is looking good.
Great list just wish you spoke more about Odin Sphere and how amazing it is...
I love this video a little video of each game perfect and your opinions. Although i loved dungeon travelers 2 but i like dungeon crawlers lol
I'm currently reworking my way through the trails series in prep for the western release of trails from zero🥰. I'm on trails in the sky SC, so excited for the crossbell arc because it's the only one I haven't played!!
Great series, I've played the crossbell arc in English already but am still going to get the official releases to support future releases.
Many people seem to think the crossbell arc is the best in the series but I disagree as I prefer travelling around to different locations without having a hub city really, the crossbell arc just felt a little more scaled down to me. It's great, as they all are but I found the trails in the sky series to be the best of what I've experienced in the series, the characters and story really make it for me. It's a bit disappointing we have to wait so long for translations but it is what it is. It's nice to see a company still focussing on a really story driven RPG because we don't really get them of the quality we used to. If square ever release a remake or remaster of xenogears I'll pay them whatever they ask!
Such amazing ranking, thank you very much!
it's so great the Vita truly is an RPG machine
all this coupled with the Asian imports, the Japanese exclusive games that can be patched in using Repatch(Blue Reflection, I Am Setsuna, etc) the loads of PSP RPG's, The PS1 RPG's and the few Western RPG's.
i wish there were a bit more Western RPG's, but hey, either Way the Vita is an S class console.
nice list, but not enough dungeon crawlers in first person! 😁i'm pretty mixed on the genre myself and (surprisingly) one of my favourites avialable on the vita is the psp port of "unchained blades", which has better writing, humor and presentation than several of the vita native games + a pokemon aspect where you can capture monsters to use in battle. haven't finished it yet though.
finally! i have been waiting for this video since last year! thank you!
My ps vita collection. Freedom wars, ragnarok odyssey ace, final fantasy x, toukiden, lost dimension, persona 4 golden, ultimate marvel vs capcom 3, Ys celceta, and tales of hearts… I lacked on ps vita honestly
Thanks for this video! I managed to find PlayStation TV and I was interested to see selection of Vita games especially made for PlayStation TV. It is good that you have cover image of games in this video.
The SAO game that you mention to have PSP graphic is called Hollow Fragment. It looks like that because it's an ENHANCE PORT of Japan-exclusive SAO: Infinite Moment for PSP. Another game SAO called Hollow Realization continued the gameplay formula of Hollow Fragment and improve it. I swear, if you include it with Hollow Fragment for its bad graphic, you really need to look at the mirror. It's an MMORPG-like game. The effort that equivalent to MMORPG would inevitably declined graphic quality. SAO Hollow Fragment was considered the best SAO game. The graphic fit for its system it played with and the gameplay is great. The story is very good for those who watch/read SAO.
If you played SAO games, you need to know this essential facts that a lot of fans have a misconception with: SAO console games take place in a different continuity than the anime/light novel, and it's recommended to play those game in order combined with watching the first half of season 1.
The series run in chronological order: Hollow Fragment, Lost Song, Hollow Realization, Fatal Bullet, Alicization Lycoris. The crossover is non-canon to the console game continuity despite using it for base setting of the story.
Super excited for this list, but some of these calls are a little wild. Something being "a hidden gem" gets a C along with something that runs extremely poorly.
Ikr, such odds always surprise me
Yeah, the scoring is a little off, but it's good to use as a guide to what games are out there.
I'm pretty disappointed about this tier
@@lastswordmaster4309 agreed, but the author should have noted that it was his personal opinion about games. I personally disagree with lots of games sent to wrong tier:
Digimon must be in A
Freedom wars must be in S
Neptunia must be in C or B
Persona 4 must be in S
Tokyo Xanadu must be in S
The most stupid thing about tier is that he puts hidden gems with laggy and low budget games LMAO
Persona 4 is an S+. I liked Tokyo Xanadu, but the last four hours of the game draaaagged it down a level to an A-. Give me a damn sequel where I can really romance Asuka or Rion and the game can have its S.
Falcom know how make great games... Ys 8 is my favourite action rpg ever.. Bough (and played) on ps vita, ps4 and pc. A masterpiece.
I have a feeling most people still playing stuff on the Vita are just fiiiine with digital-only games. *eyebrow waggle*
That Trails of Cold Steel series changed my life
Fantastic list Erick! You’ve given me a few games I need to check out from it with Ray Gigant and Valkyria Revolution.
I’m currently playing Trails of Cold Steel 1 (Ch. 4) and loving it.
100% agree it’s an S tier.
Man i remember my first time with this series
Keep playing it will just get better and better
Just saved me major money from spending on a game I had no idea was on the Ps Vita. I was gonna spend a lot of money on the switch for a overpriced game. It’s cheap on Ps Vita Tysm definitely subbing!!!!
That was a great video ! a couple of ps vita games are also on ps4... I hope someday you'll do a ps4 tier list :)
What a great video I been looking for a new Vita RPG to play recently.
Thank you for taking the time to go through all of these rpg games. Too bad you did not show any video of the S tier.
Did you actually play Tales of Heart on DS? That game is fantastic.
..someone already mention that you missed Chaos Rings trilogy..another Japan only released with English language option is Airship Q.
Vita is the holy sanctuary of first person dungeon crawlers!
I love them since the very first wizardry! Yeah, I'm old...
Very comprehensive list and helpful to reaffirm what I already kind of knew about the Vita JRPG lineup, being a consumer of JRPG's since the NES and SMS days, and that's that the type of games and creative direction just drifted far away from the type of adventure games that appeal to me. Love the Ys games on here, it's my favorite franchise and the reason I bought a Vita in the first place. Trails games are also good though I have yet to play the Trails of Cold Steel games. Otherwise most of these games fall into sub-genres that I really don't care for; Monster Hunter clones, first-person dungeon crawlers, RPG hack and slash crossovers, visual novels, rogue likes, or games that just try to be weird and unorthodox just because. There are a few good, more conventional ones like Exist Archive and Tales of Hearts R but they are like diamonds in the rough of this lineup. Now that being said I'd love for English patches to happen on all of the Trails evolution PSP remasters and also Phantasy Star Nova someday. Overall the Vita can't hold a candle to SNES, Saturn, PS2, PSX, PC Engine/PC Engine CD, Mega Drive/Mega CD, or the PSP when it comes to high-end software. Based on the top level releases I'd even compare the N64 and Gamecube offerings favorably in spite of the quantity being modest.
Yooo! Mitsuki getting some thumbnail love! Awesome
Well done and very solid rankings of these JRPG's!
Could you make a list of them in order so we could all see your suggestions?
P4G not in S+++? Wooooaahh
Kudos for Lost Dimension, my favorite game on Vita
I'm going to advocate for the criminal girls series. I am sad to say I struggle sometimes in beating jrpgs. I was glued to thesr games and beat both. Sexualization is a valid reason to avoid, but i loved both.
They are really fun games, and the mods.....
The long awaited list🙌
23:35 this is just, fuck this game, lmao. Great list covering obscure games, probably the only youtube channel that keeps talking about the vita with this much passion
Our beloved Uncle Erick You da Man :)
I definitely tried Dragon Quest Builders and it was a fun game, but not on the Vita due to issues with backlighting during the night segments. If you are going for the platinum, play the PS4 version. It's much more of a couch comfort game. However, since there aren't any great games on the Vita, I might redownload this game and get all the challenges in it again just to have something to play on my walks. *shrug*
Also, I don't know whether your Vita could handle it but mine cannot handle Secret of Mana - the game crashed and hardlocked my Vita forcing me to do a hard reboot of the system. (Of course, it could have been my Vita at the time was dying on a hill, I don't know if my new Vita could handle it. Not gonna risk it. :()
'medicore RPG let put it in c' 'great game, best in ar tonelico let put it in b' -.- flip the table
Tell me you don't know a thing about AR norsurge without telling me that you don't know a thing about AR norsurge.
perfect review👍👍😁
Accel world and Sword art online were originally light novel wrote by the same author, so, I think that is normal a crossover of them.
Conception 2 is a pretty fun Persona rip-off, but I spent way more time playing Oreshika. Sony published it on Vita, but I don't know if they own the rights, but this would be an excellent game on the switch.
I needed this video in my life, thank you!
Utawarerumono in C and considered "ok" writing is absurd.
This guy's tier lists are a complete joke.
So the Vita didn't had a whole lot of action games eh...
Was considering investing in one but the only game thats my type seems to be Tales of Hearts R, Akibas Beat, Tokyo Xanadu, Memories of Celceta and Lacrimosa of Dana
Actually Accel World may take place in the same universe as Sword Art , or atleast its referenced in Accel World.
Don't know why it clicked with me so hard but Oreshika was what kept me replaying my Vita all the way until my memory card just randomly died.
Still have my Vita but the memory cards are so expensive to replace that I haven't used it in a while.
The way you described the girl prison game reminds me of when I was trying to play Ultra Despair Girls and my wife was sleeping and I was tyring to figure hour what to say if she woke up during the tentacle scene lol
You mentioned a Taiwanese developed RPG in a video and I can't recall the title or find the video anymore, could you please tell me what it was? Thanks!
I know it's a particular case, but it's too bad to not see Chaos Rings here. As long as you have an asian account, the first three games are playable in english in the Chaos Rings III Prequel Trilogy compilation (originally only released in asian territories).
Amazing list!
The SAO games are weird. The Hollow games are supposed to be MMORPG style games, and because of that I got sucked into Realization and spent over 150 hours on it. I still play it occasionally, and I got a lot of stuff to do. I skipped the story though so I didn't have to deal with that
It's because SAO have different games with different combat overall. Aquaria handle tradition sword-orient games like SAO, SA:O and Underworld. Artdink handle ALO due to their experience making aerial combat gameplay.
I know you hate it but Natural Doctrine is my favorite on Vita, with Stranger of sword City in 2nd, and I've plat'd all (I think) drpgs and most jrpgd on vita. ND isn't for everyone, bit if it is for you, it is shockingly well designed.
My problem is that he calls the game trash... and it's not. One thing is his personal taste, other is call the game trash. For me ND is one of the best on the Vita, a good challenge, good graphics, good gameplay...
@@hartursoaki4808 agreed. A lot of reviewers did this for ND... Such a shame
I wish Tales of Hearts R got ported elsewhere.
Damn man you’re a beast for doing lists like this
3:10 Adventures of Mana is very simple by todays standard since it's essentially a 1:1 port of the original Game Boy game with remade graphics (known as Final Fantasy Adventure in the US and Mystic Quest in the EU). So if you have the Mana Collection on Switch etc., you're not really missing out by playing the Game Boy game, but Adventures is a nice game that I enjoyed replaying. Definitely agree with C Tier. Sword of Mana is much more of a Remake/Reimagination, it adds a bunch of stuff. I don't think that Sword is necessarily better just because it has more (at times it feels more like a worse Secret of Mana), but it's a different experience than just playing the exact same game again with better graphics.
Trials of mana remake was better anyway
This will give me some titles to try on my new (used) Vita.
If you have a Vita, mod it. I'm sure you're thinking "piracy", but not even for that. Setting custom themes is awesome. But the real reason is that you can, for instance, buy Trails in the Sky in the Japanese store, then apply an English language patch and bam, you're playing the Vita version of Trails in the Sky, or Trails in the Sky 2, or Trails in the Sky 3, or Trails from Zero, in English. Bam. Three more S tier games. And one B tier.
Trails from Zero? Hadn't seen that one.
Piracy is amazing btw
@@cheeeeezewizzz You're in luck. It came out on Switch today.
Don't forget being able to overclock it so that games whose major problems are performance issues become much better experiences.
I respect your opinion and I do not want to hate on anybody cuz everybody will consider me to be toxic. But personaly, I disagree with a fewer of things.
First thing that caught my eye is low tier for Digimon. I don't care if it is a copycat of Pokemon. Story Cybersleuth appeared to be a nice game when I started playing it. What differs it from Pokemon is that the story is actually interesting, you solve cases, your Digimon won't be bored on "someone's PC" (Reference to Pokemon) but you get Digifarms, where you can pay to get item (not actual money), train your Digimon to buff some stats and let Digimon investigate so you will get some extra cases later. Battles are dynamic, and you manipulate with 3 special types of DIgimon - vaccine, virus and data - vaccine can restore objects that give you some items, data allows you to extract some important info and run faster, etc. There are also domination battles and CTF. You definitely won't get bored and it's not considered to be exactly Pokemon, isn't it? Oh, btw, completion time is 100 hours.
Secondly, Persona 4 Golden is A tier. Welp, I found it a bit odd - but that's okay - at least it's not THAT below as Digimon.
Thirdly, Freedom Wars deserve to be higher. The combat system is much better than in most of other shooters and JRPGs. I played it and I had so much fun. Bosses are actually hard, for each stage there's a time limit, you spend OVER 30 MINUTES to finnish the operation. You COULD take part in battles online or beat some boss online. You can upgrade weapons, enhance them, produce medicine, muntions etc. Upgrade your facilities where you produce medicine, upgrade weapons or manufacture them. Donate others some important resources and reduce your sentence. THIS WAS TONS OF FUN. I would put it in S surely.
5. I understand that Neptunia doesn't deserve to be in B tier, but it should not be on D tier either. Gotta say, you've put some unpleasant to me games at C tier, but you disgusted Neptunia. I mean it's not THAT BAD. It's mediocre.
6. You said SAO could potentially be a good game? Well, never heard of such thing. It was always OK, but never actually good. I mean even on PC it looks OK. For PC games, it's not that good. What I witnessed in Lost song is that the map at start was completely empty. I don't care how marvelous the looks of characters were and how attractive the skills were, I found it sooooo boring. No matter how good anime was, this looked not so much of fun. Oh, and I hate those wings - though it makes some difference in combat, but it's soooo hard controlling your character in fight. I dunno, maybe others did well with it. Don't yell at me if I upset someone.
Agreed completely with all S tier included in the video.
Edit: I mean everyone has it's own opinion on each game, but I tried to be as fair as I could. I would send some other games to their deserved tier but I just could not help but to notice these games - these are popular JRPGs after all. Some might even consider Neptunia to be actually good.
What bug me the most is caligula E tier bruh he say its a very unique jrpg but put it last tier
You're the best Erick!
Thanks for the video. Im planning to get a Vita soon
Awesome video, it teases me to buy psvita now !
Lovely video. I watch it to the very end and I kinda agree 98% of your choices. 😎👍
I'd give The Longest 5 Minutes an E only because it is stupidly expensive, at $39.99, and it has never gone on sale. (Then again, the Vita store has stopped doing sales since the support for it was dropped.) It's not worth $40.
Can someone put a text list here for these rankings?
Yes I needed this, I’m one of fanboys that bought it on release and haven’t regretted it yet
I liked your review
Favourites from the vita I've played, mind zero, odin sphere leifthrasir, muramasa rebirth, tales of hearts r, I am trying to get into trails of cold steel but am struggling due to length of fights even though I really loved persona 5
Kemco has a endless rpgs😳 I miss the Vita I hope we get a vita2 🥰without the whole way to over priced memory cards 😳
Kemco just releases the same RPG over and over with different characters
It is criminal to not put Soul Sacrifice in S tier.
It's not even a JRPG.
Did you miss persona 4 golden or I missed that part. Also, there are phantasy star nova, Blue-Winged Chevalier, Xeno Max for ps Vita as far as I know.
Awesome video
I am surprised that you didn't like the Neptunia games but to each their own. I loved Tokyko Xanadu EX+ I thought Falcom did an amazing job with it. I also loved Ys Origin. But Yeah The Vita versions of the Neptunia games are better than the PS3 counterparts. The the first Neptunia game on PS3 is the worst one because of the battle system and mechanics it has is very odd while The 2nd and 3rd games on PS3 are improved over the first game while the first Vita game took the battle system from the 2nd game on PS3 and put it into that version of the game. I never owned a Vita but I owned a PSTV that allowed for certain Vita titles to be played on the Big screen and that is how I played and pumped over 230hrs into Persona 4 Golden.
Just had to subscribe to get dem health buffs.
can u go into detail on why u didn't like neptunia?