The Unlosing Ranger
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So there's a thread just like this for PS3 games so I thought there should be one for Vita games too. Share your opinions on whichever was the last game you played on the Vita and give it a score you think it deserves!
I'll start with...
Yu-Nama: The Puzzle (PSM) - 9/10 - A really fun match-3 game. Unlike most match-3 games, you match up things by breaking blocks and you can slide them around too, so it's much less limiting and more fun to make big combos than most games.
Basically, this game is part of the Badman ("What did I do to deserve this, My Lord?" and "No Heroes Allowed!"). As always, a bunch of heroes want to come take the evil overlord so it is your duty to create monsters to defeat the heroes and protect the overlord. In the previous game this was done as a complex dungeon-building sim, basically, but this time around it's a much simpler and faster match-3 game. You have a bunch of color-coded monsters at your disposal such as the Slimes, Omnoms and Dragons.
Now here's where it gets fun. The monsters are tiles. You combine three Slimes and you spawn slimes that attack the heroes. However, you also spawn one 1 Omnom tile. So everytime you match 3, you spawn monsters and create a new tile of a higher level. There's 5 levels, the last one being the Dragon which breaks all non-monster blocks in the field. The heroes attack by spawning lines of unbreakable blocks on the puzzle board, so Dragons are saviours!
Well, that's the basics of it. The game is meant to be played in long sittings, since each stage is played after each other and there's 10 stages plus 10 "extra" stages which are harder than the regular ones. The game's biggest flaw is that it has no leaderboards.
Also worth checking is the free-to-play "No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!" which is a Vita-native title. The F2P restrictions are ridiculous and I like Yu-Nama's more... survival-mode like setup than NHA: NPE's separate puzzles, but it's worth checking out. NHA: NPE! does have a fair lot of content unique to that version.
I'll start with...
Yu-Nama: The Puzzle (PSM) - 9/10 - A really fun match-3 game. Unlike most match-3 games, you match up things by breaking blocks and you can slide them around too, so it's much less limiting and more fun to make big combos than most games.
Basically, this game is part of the Badman ("What did I do to deserve this, My Lord?" and "No Heroes Allowed!"). As always, a bunch of heroes want to come take the evil overlord so it is your duty to create monsters to defeat the heroes and protect the overlord. In the previous game this was done as a complex dungeon-building sim, basically, but this time around it's a much simpler and faster match-3 game. You have a bunch of color-coded monsters at your disposal such as the Slimes, Omnoms and Dragons.
Now here's where it gets fun. The monsters are tiles. You combine three Slimes and you spawn slimes that attack the heroes. However, you also spawn one 1 Omnom tile. So everytime you match 3, you spawn monsters and create a new tile of a higher level. There's 5 levels, the last one being the Dragon which breaks all non-monster blocks in the field. The heroes attack by spawning lines of unbreakable blocks on the puzzle board, so Dragons are saviours!
Well, that's the basics of it. The game is meant to be played in long sittings, since each stage is played after each other and there's 10 stages plus 10 "extra" stages which are harder than the regular ones. The game's biggest flaw is that it has no leaderboards.
Also worth checking is the free-to-play "No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!" which is a Vita-native title. The F2P restrictions are ridiculous and I like Yu-Nama's more... survival-mode like setup than NHA: NPE's separate puzzles, but it's worth checking out. NHA: NPE! does have a fair lot of content unique to that version.