As such, I think naming
the best handheld title of the upcoming years may be a different beast than it's been in the past (considering handheld games are now quite literally the same as home console titles).
Not exact matches
Stands out as a
good handheld game, if you compare it to big
titles of course its not going to do
well.
Game - play wise the DLC plays straightforward lacking customization and different ways to handle situations playing more like a
handheld tutorial for most of the game, treating you as though you were too stupid to learn the basics of combat from the base game or earlier
titles, However this could all be related to getting the player to use the new hacking feature in which you can now use situational hazards to stun enemies, however the concept falls shorts as most encounters when you will need to use hacking are scripted and would be more efficient in those that are not if you made use of your already acquired skills from the base game.Overall the DLC like the game is visually impressive and combat still flows
well but you cant help but feel as though you have been cheated yet again.
Retro's untested with Zelda, so I think if they were to ever make one, it'd be a
handheld title first, but Capcom has three actually pretty
good Zelda games under their belt.
A charming action - adventure
title from developers Project Siren who work within SCE Japan Studio, it was one of Sony's
best first - party exclusive games for the
handheld system, utilising the Vita's touch - screen and gyroscope for zero gravity - related gameplay — a unique control setup that took advantage of the hardware.
Without japanese
good sales = > next Monster Hunter will also be
handheld / 3DS - only - Tales of will come to 3DS instead to PS4, there will be no more japanese
titles at all.
Thus far this is the
best looking launch
title out there, and truly shows the potential of this
handheld device.
The wave of third - party
titles announced so far for the new Nintendo
handheld seem to back up Iwata's statements, with
titles like Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D - The Naked Sample, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Pro Evolution Soccer, Dead or Alive 3D, Resident Evil Revelations, Ninja Gaiden, Pac - Man & Galaga, and Dragon Ball would all be coming to the 3DS, as
well as a spate of unnamed
titles from developers like Harmonix, Take - Two, Atlus, AQ Interactive, Disney Interactive Studios, Hudson Soft, Majesco, Marvelous Entertainment, and Sega.
During the 3DS's launch week in Japan, the glasses - free 3D
handheld easily topped the hardware sales charts, but found its
best - selling
title peaking at third place, behind a pair of newly released games for Sony's systems.
The comedy is
good - natured and Allen clearly delights in getting to pay tribute to the movies of his youth, from their
handheld opening
titles and their stagey squarish visuals to their notion of witty banter and stereotypical black housekeepers.
Ultimately, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe holds up
better as a
handheld game in 2017 than it did as a console game in 2014, and even then it was a standout
title when it launched.
Jointly leading the nominations with five each, are Naughty Dog's action - adventure survival horror
title The Last of Us — receiving nods for Game of the Year,
Best Design,
Best Visual Art,
Best Narrative and
Best Technology — and Media Molecule's PlayStation Vita
title Tearaway, which received acclaim throughout 2013 for its art style and its creative use of the PS Vita inputs and sensors, and which was nominated for awards including Innovation and
Best Handheld / Mobile Game.
With updated controls and additional Amiibo support for the latest Nintendo
handheld, this re-release of the original 2011
title looks and plays
better than ever.
You're in luck, as we've featured a number of our favorite RPG
titles over on our list of the
Best Handheld RPGs.
Though the
title runs
well when docked, its performance drops off significantly when playing in
handheld mode.
For dedicated
handheld game systems, you'd still be
better off with a Nintendo 3DS XL or a PS Vita Slim for the depth and breadth of
titles available for either device.
Any
titles you download are stored in the cloud, so you can access them from a Mac or PC as
well as different
handheld devices.
Sony has had a flurry of hardware releases with the release of the PlayStation 4 Slim, PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation VR, Microsoft released backwards compatibility on the Xbox One for many Xbox 360
titles as
well as hinted about Project Scorpio, and of course Nintendo announced the upcoming Switch console /
handheld hybrid.
But, although the successful franchise has appeared on a
handheld platform as
well, having two
titles, Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, released for the PlayStation Portable system, nobody ever expected Rockstar, the company that owns the rights to the IP (Intellectual Property), to announce the fact that it would bring the series to the Nintendo DS platform.
While this would be sure to please those without a PSP, the future of the
handheld would be shaky at
best if its AAA
titles all start being available on PS3.
Since the release of Spirit Tracks, Nintendo has not released an original, stand - alone Zelda story for
handhelds, which could probably be down to the fact the game wasn't as
well received as they expected to be, something that has put them a little on edge, worried as to how their next original
title would have us react, so instead they give us a re-mastered Ocarina of Time, quite possible the greatest Zelda game to date and Majora's Mask and Wind Waker, which for me was the icing on the cake as I was unable to play it the first time round on the Gamecube and added to the justification of getting my WII U.
That said, it's easily one of the
best handheld fighters I've played, and a great launch
title for the console.
Anyway, this
title is probably has the
best presentation I've ever seen in a
handheld game.
Even with
titles such as Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy +, amiibo functionality, Super Smash Bros., The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, as
well as Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate being the main draws to the
handheld, this isn't a huge and transformative jump that Nintendo needed in order to bring in new fans.
Mario Land laid the foundation for a string of excellent
handheld Mario
titles, and still holds up pretty
well today.
Almost twenty years after the release of the original Oddworld
title Abe's Oddysee (which debuted on the PlayStation in September 1997), the ground - up remake Oddworld: New «n» Tasty lands on the PlayStation Vita — instantly challenging for the honour of becoming the
handheld's
best platformer.
+ Excellent
handheld remaster of the PS2
title + Great selection of new features +
Good for short or long periods of play + Enjoyable cast of characters +
Good balance of life - sim and dungeon crawling
The 3DS has already been demonstrating its power in terms of 3D gameplay — with
titles such as Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D literally porting a 3D console
title (albeit an old one) to the
handheld format with
better graphics than the original, and Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D showing the console's capability to handle gameplay matching Resident Evil 5, although in the form of a score - beating mini-game style as opposed to an actual story.
The
handheld title includes all the original levels from the original PSN game, as
well as six brand new levels.
I would easily say that the PlayStation Vita's biggest strength is its ability to play console - quality
titles on a portable platform — while it's always
good to see games developed specifically for the
handheld platform, I think the way to the future of gaming is one where console and portable gaming are interchangeable.
It's hard to say that Revelations on 360 is
better than the original — while the textures are
better, the game does feel more impressive as a high - standard
handheld title than it does as an average - looking console
title.
GO was almost a launch
title when it came out in Japan in the December of 2011, but even after all these years it's still one of the
better looking RPGs on the
handheld, and in many ways puts even Pokemon XY to shame.
This is absolutely the be-all and end - all of
handheld wrestling
titles, and it does
better than most 3D next generation wrestling games, as
well.
Pokemon did amazingly
well in every region it launched in, bringing the ancient Game Boy back to life and spawning its own litter of similar
titles on
handhelds.
The
good news about this is that there actually happens to be a decent amount of games on sale right now, with
titles ranging from Sega's Football Manager
Handheld 2015 to UniWar and even a few Tin Man Games
titles.
This is far from the
best looking PSN or XBL game out there and again, it must be stressed that this is a port of a
handheld title.
Ever since the PS Vita was announced, I held out hope that maybe Capcom would make a Monster Hunter
title for it (there's just something special to me about playing it on a
handheld), but this definitely seems like the next
best thing!
My sentiments quickly changed when I discovered that games like The Walking Dead, The Broken Sword series and many other high profile
titles were available on the platform without any compromises from the transfer to the
handheld medium; however, the true wealth of gaming brilliance was to be discovered in some of the genre - breaking indie games nestled amongst the more
well known
titles.
In the 3DS's case, the 10
best - selling games for the
handheld are pretty much stagnant, consisting of the previous
titles with just a few shifts in the ranking and increased sales figures across the board.
With a catalogue of
titles including New Super Mario Bros. 2 (review), Mario Kart 7 (review) and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (review) the 3DS is possibly the
best handheld gaming option on the market at the moment.
It is clear that this change of direction has been inspired by the look of Telltale Games»
titles, albeit Zero Time Dilemma runs a lot
better on the
handheld.
Of course they appeared on several of Nintendo's
handhelds as
well as modern systems like the Wii, PS3 and Xbox via releases of early
titles to online networks.
At the end of the day PS Vita owners who are fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, and PS Vita gamers as a whole, would be remiss if they missed out on Liberation, as it is one of the
better titles to hit Sony's twin - stick
handheld to date.
Nintendo is back at the top of the New Retail Release report this week with another new game for their
handheld, as
well as a handful of new third party
titles for their surging pair of systems.
Let us be grateful for the games that we do have, the HD remasters or newer
handheld titles such as A Link Between Worlds and it's direct sequel Tri Force Heroes, because they may not be the
best, but they are what we have now and they deserve some love and attention too, even if we have played them to death.
Compared to other WipEouts, the new edition doesn't bring that much new to the table, despite being a reboot of sorts, but it doesn't need to — it's a refinement of the series that takes most of the
best parts of the franchise and packs it into a powerful
handheld title.
Well, unlike Konami, Square Enix has been a supporter of Nintendo (or at least its
handhelds) for years now, and
titles like Final Fantasy Explorers and Bravely Second show no signs of that changing.
So hopefully we'll be seeing plenty of great new
handheld content in the vein of Angry Birds or Castle Crashers, as
well as old NES / SNES
titles and GameBoy Advance games.
Originally released on the PSP, God of War: Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta were excellent
handheld titles, managing to live up
well to the quality of the home - console entries in the series.
I wholeheartedly recommend Most Wanted for the Vita, it's not only a fabulous
title with Fairhaven running impressively, it's the
best racer ever developed on a
handheld.