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    Edited By BlackLagoon

    And it's time for the "not quite as late as last month" edition of my 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.

    Out this month is an enhanced port of Japanese shoot 'em up Gundemonium, as well several retro indies like action platformer Revenge of the Bird King, horror puzzle game Slayaway Camp, and brawler I Am The Hero. Also out is Advance Wars-like Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes, a remastered version of the 2009 PS Mini by the same name.

    Looking at new game announcements, there wasn't a whole lot. Mainly the very 8-bit action platformer looking Ghoulboy in the west, and a dungeon crawler RPG based on the KonoSuba franchise in Japan.

    There was unfortunately another notable announcement this month, namely that the Vita version of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim has been cancelled. So I removed it from the this list. Further, in trying to clean up the older parts of the list somewhat, I looked into another batch of titles. Turns out The Hero Trap was formally canceled a few years back (though they only announced this to their Kickstarter backers making it easy to miss,) so it has also been removed. Red Goddess: Inner World, One Way Trip, and Gunship X have been moved to vaporware, as it seems unlikely the devs are still active, let alone working on a Vita version.

    And I think we're done. Come back next month for Persona Dancing!

    November

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    Upcoming

    Retail releases

    Downloads

    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)
    • Snapshot - No news for several years, dev seems to have moved on.
    • James Pond 2: Robocod - Remake by System 3 (no news since 2013)
    • DiscStorm - Top-down arena combat (no news since 2015)
    • The Next Death Ray Manta - New version of the indie dual stick shooter (dev seemingly shut down)
    • The Chaos Engine - Port of the Amiga classic (no news since 2013)
    • Legend of Raven - 2D fighting game from former King of Fighters devs (no news since 2013)
    • Samurai Gunn - 2D deathmatch thing (dev seemingly moved on)
    • Road Not Taken - Procedurally generated puzzle game (held up by middleware problems, fix presumably never coming)
    • AfterZoom - Upgraded version of DSi AR game (came out "exclusively" on iOS in 2015, dev seems to have moved on)
    • Red Goddess: Inner World - Fantasy metroidvania (No updates since 2015, seemingly bailed on Kickstarter backers)
    • One Way Trip - Surreal adventure (No updates since 2016, dev seems to have gone radio silent)
    • Gunship X - Top down airstrike simulator (No updates since 2014, developers seem to have moved on)

    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)

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    #1 soulcake

    There still retail release for this thing :O. Of course 3/5 games are visual novels.

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    #2 Jesus_Phish

    @blacklagoon: It sucks that 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim was cancelled but it makes sense considering it looks like it's not going to be out for some time, if even at all on PS4. It seems up in the air for now if that game will ever come out. I've enjoyed all their games on Vita and it's a shame that one won't be joining the collection.

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    #3 BlackLagoon

    @soulcake said:

    There still retail release for this thing :O. Of course 3/5 games are visual novels.

    There are actually still a bunch of limited physical releases for the Vita made by companies like Limited Run Games sold through their own websites, they have an audience of hardcore collectors who will buy just about anything release on physical media. Determining what should be listed as a "retail release" is getting harder though, as some end up just being download only or limited releases. And of course with the Vita getting a bit long in the tooth a number just end up not happening. (...and the current list of retail games is probably due for some clean-up.)

    @blacklagoon: It sucks that 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim was cancelled but it makes sense considering it looks like it's not going to be out for some time, if even at all on PS4. It seems up in the air for now if that game will ever come out. I've enjoyed all their games on Vita and it's a shame that one won't be joining the collection.

    I wouldn't count the PS4 out though, Japanese developers have a long tradition of sticking to the previous gen of consoles for years after the successor is out. The Vita itself suffered from this as several publishers kept putting out PSP games in 2012 and 2013.

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