Kotaku Game DiaryDaily thoughts from the Kotaku staff about the game we played.Spring is not here for another couple of weeks but it's already over 50 degrees outside, new growth is starting to bubble up, and I'm feeling the unpleasant feelings of a dozen or so colored games I've accumulated for my Vita over the years.
Years around this time, The Sons were running their annual Special Fever event promoting new and old indie games with short sales. In 2012 the lineup was led by ThatGameCompany & # 39; s The journey. The following year DrinkBox Studios was discussed Guacamelee!. And even after Tony left Vita following the release of PlayStation 4 in 2013, March remained a hand-held time as some of the ten best games like Fez and Shovel Knight continued to be displayed on it.
Back when the big publishers put most of them into the biggest releases in the back half of the year, spring was a time to jump on some of the smaller, personal, and curated indie games coming out, and Vita felt a great place to do it. Games like Souls of the Titan and Hotline Miami 2 they were annoying-y and is divided into sizes that are suitable for cutting up and downing short intervals. The Vita made it easy to take most of them outdoors where long days and warm weather provide much needed relief after being indoors throughout the winter. And while some of these games to the 3DS, many of them did not. A few, like Souls of the Titan, we have not changed.
I went around a lot in the 2010s. First I came home after college, then went to an apartment in the city, later back home after a breakup, and finally through a series of other houses before finally buying a house. I remember grinding for hours OlliOlli 2 in between building my first gaming PC. I remember busy negotiating all the rooms Salt and SanhalaA short 2D world while living in my friend's living room. And I remember dying for Souls of the TitanVinethesis with thorny bushes on the bus ride to work on the other until I finally hit it.
Games like SteamWorld Dig and Axiom Verge so focused on rich pixel art and detailed level designs of my favorite NES and SNES projects that playing them makes me feel more in touch with & # 39;90s experience Metroid and Super castleylvania IV first. It's empowering, but in a way that is completely in line with the changing of the seasons. Instead of digging into the comfort food from decades ago, I go back to rethinking some of my favorite games.
I could always try to rebuild my indie catalog on the switch, but that would be too far. Also, it can feel like I'm dropping my favorite reading nook at a bookstore or on a park bench. The games are still very good and play well on the Vita. And as time A capsule of my 20s, I revisit it with the hand I first encountered it helps me gather more energy and energy over the past 10 years.
Well, maybe this will be the year that I finally crawled and bought one of the old-fashioned Vita's debit cards so I can actually have all the games downloaded at once. Now who's down per cycle of Helldivers?
