June Vita lineup and upcoming titles

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It's June... and I'm late... again. I can only blame the combo of the Twitch Doctor Who marathon, E3, and a persistent, nasty summer cold. That out of the way, this is still my monthly list of current and upcoming titles for the PlayStation Vita. As usual it is focused on the North American market, with Europe and Japan exclusive titles in their own sections below.

After initially looking pretty barren, last month filled out nicely, and June looks pretty nice as well. You've got DRPG The Lost Child from NISA, which is actually a spin-off from 2011 action game El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Otome Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk from Aksys. Rhythm game Musynx and shooter Riddled Corpses EX. And after years of waiting, Kickstarter localized visual novel Muv-Luv, as well as sequel Muv-Luv Alternative, are arriving, as is EastAsiaSoft's SRPG Rainbow Skies.

Looking at new game announcements, for a platform that has traditionally been ignored at E3, this was surprisingly one of its more respectable showings. Atlus confirmed localizations for Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, as well as Catherine: Full Body. XSEED snuck out a reveal of the the otome visual novel London Detective Mysteria. And Limited Run Games are taking a step into fully fledged Vita game publishing with the visual novel The House in Fata Morgana. Else, Kickstarted funded Clock Tower spiritual successor NightCry (previously Project Scissors) confirmed a western release and indie Waking Violet is coming as well.

Over in Japan there was not a lot happening. Mainly Gust announced a new Atelier game, Nelke and the Legendary Alchemists, and a few visual novels.

Finally, we learnt last month that Sony is ending production in the west for physical game cards for the Vita in early 2019. This is unfortunate, because small publishers like Limited Run Games games had found a profitable niche releasing small print runs of indie games and the occasional localization. Smaller indies have said straight out that these physical releases alone made Vita ports of their games viable, as there's a devoted audience of Vita collectors out there who more or guarantee several thousand copies sold at full price. Still, Limited Run have made it clear they intend to get through as many games they can before the deadline. And game card production will still continue in Asia, where there are companies like Hong Kong based eastasiasoft that are producing English-language physical releases for a global audience. So, I guess we're back to what has been the story of Vita's life since its release... Don't count the little bastard out yet.

And with that, we're done. Come back next month for... Hmm... Not a lot of stuff on the schedule so far. Well, they're already up on PSN, but the (Amazon exclusive?) retail release of the Muv-Luv games are due out then, so here's a trailer for one of them:

June

Retail

Download

Upcoming

Retail releases

Downloads

Unconfirmed

Vaporware

  • Orc Attack - Console version released Oct 2013. No news of the Vita version.
  • Starbound - PC version is having development problems, making the Vita port unlikely to happen.
  • C-Wars - Retro RTS thing (abandoned in early access since Mar 2016)
  • SilverQuest: Gaiden - Previously MiniFlake (abandoned in early access since Mar 2016)
  • Smash Derby - Indie vehicle combat arena (no updates, removed from developers page)
  • A Clumsy Adventure - Indie platformer (dev website down, no twitter updates since Dec 2015)
  • Action Henk - Physics puzzle runner? (Vita not listed on homepage, PS4 came out in Mar 2016)
  • Ascension: Chronicle of the God Slayer - Card game (no updates since original annoucement Aug 2014)
  • Rain World - Survival (Out on other platforms, Vita version not mentioned any more)
  • Cloudberry Kingdom - Platformer (No news since 2013, no mention of Vita since, studio moved on)
  • Enter the Gungeon - Procedural dual-joystick shooter (Not cancelled but port low priority for the time being)

Europe

(Titles out in Europe with no American release announced.)

Japan

(Japanese titles from the last 2 years that have yet to be announced for western release)

Upcoming

Retail (released)

Download (released)

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#1  Edited By EnomotoShards

Roundabout just also released today on the PSN store via stealth release...

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#2 BlackLagoon

@enomotoshards: Huh, that took a while. But still, props to them for actually delivering on their announcement.

In other news, Omega Labyrinth Z was cancelled just after I posted this. No reason given, but people are speculating that one of the younger looking characters may have given them trouble with the ratings boards. The localization is presumably already complete, so there is perhaps some possibility it might be used for a mainland Asia region release people can import.

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#3 Legend

Very informative. Thank you!

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