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Rayman Origins PS Vita Review: A Cartoon Cut to the Size of Your Hands
Michel Ancel’s hand-drawn platformer in a near-flawless handheld conversion: the paintings perfected by the OLED they play on.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Severed PS Vita Review: The Touchscreen, Sharpened Into a Sword
Drinkbox’s late-era masterpiece: first-person touchscreen combat in a world of grief and colour, native to the Vita like nothing else.
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WipEout 2048 PS Vita Review: Studio Liverpool’s Last, Fastest Lap
The birth of anti-gravity racing and a studio’s farewell: the Vita’s definitive racer, with the series’ best campaign structure.
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Lumines: Electronic Symphony PS Vita Review: The Puzzle Game That Wants Your Pulse
Q Entertainment’s launch puzzler carries the series’ greatest soundtrack — a playable album that still justifies its cartridge slot.
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Dragon’s Crown PS Vita Review: Golden Axe Goes to University
Vanillaware’s painted brawler-RPG judged as a Vita version: touchscreen rune-casting, a hundred-hour loot loop and art that divides rooms.
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Muramasa Rebirth PS Vita Review: The Painting You Can Play
Vanillaware’s definitive edition: new translation, sharpened art and the Genroku Legends DLC, on the screen that flatters it most.
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc PS Vita Review: The Killing Game Comes West
Fifteen students, one bear, six trials of pure argument: the visual novel that proved the genre in the West, in radioactive pink on OLED.
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Freedom Wars PS Vita Review: A Million Years, Served One Mission at a Time
Shift’s prison-city hunting game: giant Abductors, a grappling Thorn and the finest satirical premise on the Vita.
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Soul Sacrifice Delta PS Vita Review: Save Them, Spend Them, Become It
The definitive edition of Inafune’s grim hunting fable: a third faction, new Archfiends and the moral mechanic no rival has matched.
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Killzone: Mercenary PS Vita Review: The Handheld FPS, Settled at Last
Guerrilla Cambridge’s mercenary campaign is the best first-person shooter on any dedicated handheld — and the Vita’s proof of concept.