Utawarerumono is actually a complete trilogy on the Vita. Prelude to the Fallen (remake of the first game) got a digital only release in 2020.

Fun fact about Conception II, it was built using the Persona 3 portable engine, so to me it's like a total overhaul of Persona 3 and I find that pretty cool. The game itself actually has decently deep mechanics when it comes to team building if you're into that sort of thing.

When people do these videos I wish they'd post a screenshot of the final rankings. They're hard AF to read on KZfaq, even blown up.

Persona 4 Golden deserves S tier alongside Trails

I just want to say, thank you for your recommendations, Erick. So many games to try out that I didn't know existed on the Vita!

The reason for the Accel World & SAO crossover is because the two series are written by the same author, and the rights for both are with the same publisher. That makes it really easy to make a crossover.

Hell yeah!!! One of my most anticipated videos!

PS Vita so underrated...especially since you can play psp, ps1 games and some android ports on it.

Thank you so much! I just got a Vita today and this has really helped me prioritize my future games! 😁

Hi Erick, couldnt wait for this list of VitaJRPGs, love it, thanks so much putting all that together.

finally! i have been waiting for this video since last year! thank you!

The reason they made a Accel World/SAO crossover is because they were written by the same author and play in the same world with Accel being the future of SAO(The anime even featured the Nervegear in a book about old VR-Models).

Wow! Just wow! This was so cool video! I love PS Vita. I like JRPGs and now I know what to play! Thank you for your video!

tbh i quite love Digimon Cyber sleuth. the story driven really caught me, there is is do many side quest but its just remind me of old Digimon World 3. The Utawarerumono Trilogy is quite good too. i love the False mask and Mask of the truth.

Such amazing ranking, thank you very much!

Ys Celceta on Vita is a blast.

What a great video I been looking for a new Vita RPG to play recently.

Thanks for this video! I managed to find PlayStation TV and I was interested to see selection of Vita games especially made for PlayStation TV. It is good that you have cover image of games in this video.

Tokyo Xanadu was solidly ranked. The one reason major reason I stuck with it was the character system relation to the trails;CS series. It's even got our CS mascot, Towa fully recasted. And the character bio collections and mini side-stories for every npc that updates over the course of the game. Great attention to detail ^^ Def not on the same level as the trails series on the whole, but still charming nonetheless. Great list, can't wait to go through it S tier down, thank you for not being a metacritic rehasher 🙏🙏🙏

Great list just wish you spoke more about Odin Sphere and how amazing it is...

The long awaited list🙌

I'm pretty sure the Accel World anime takes place in the future of the same world as Sword Art Online. That's why there is a crossover.

Chapters on all these videos would be supremely helpful. You could even use amazon affiliate links and make a bit of dough, since I use your videos as a buying guide.

I needed this video in my life, thank you!

Damn man you’re a beast for doing lists like this

The SAO game that you mention to have PSP graphic is called Hollow Fragment. It looks like that because it's an ENHANCE PORT of Japan-exclusive SAO: Infinite Moment for PSP. Another game SAO called Hollow Realization continued the gameplay formula of Hollow Fragment and improve it. I swear, if you include it with Hollow Fragment for its bad graphic, you really need to look at the mirror. It's an MMORPG-like game. The effort that equivalent to MMORPG would inevitably declined graphic quality. SAO Hollow Fragment was considered the best SAO game. The graphic fit for its system it played with and the gameplay is great. The story is very good for those who watch/read SAO. If you played SAO games, you need to know this essential facts that a lot of fans have a misconception with: SAO console games take place in a different continuity than the anime/light novel, and it's recommended to play those game in order combined with watching the first half of season 1. The series run in chronological order: Hollow Fragment, Lost Song, Hollow Realization, Fatal Bullet, Alicization Lycoris. The crossover is non-canon to the console game continuity despite using it for base setting of the story.

I'm happy to see someone else liked Exist Archive, too.

Yooo! Mitsuki getting some thumbnail love! Awesome

I'm currently reworking my way through the trails series in prep for the western release of trails from zero🥰. I'm on trails in the sky SC, so excited for the crossbell arc because it's the only one I haven't played!!

oh boy cant wait to watch this, soul sacrifice is my favorite vita game!

I love this video a little video of each game perfect and your opinions. Although i loved dungeon travelers 2 but i like dungeon crawlers lol

Epic, but there are three Utawarerumono titles on the PS Vita. Mask of Truth and Mask of Deception were released physically in the US. Prelude to the Fallen was released digitally only in the US, though I think it may have had a physical release in Asia/Japan.

nice list, but not enough dungeon crawlers in first person! 😁i'm pretty mixed on the genre myself and (surprisingly) one of my favourites avialable on the vita is the psp port of "unchained blades", which has better writing, humor and presentation than several of the vita native games + a pokemon aspect where you can capture monsters to use in battle. haven't finished it yet though.

Thanks for the video. Im planning to get a Vita soon

Amazing list!

That was a great video ! a couple of ps vita games are also on ps4... I hope someday you'll do a ps4 tier list :)

Well done and very solid rankings of these JRPG's!

Estaría padre que hicieras (digo, si no es mucha molestia) un "ranking Every 3DS JRPG ever made!", no si si ya exista uno pero almenos en la playlist de los rankings de varias consolas no vi alguno.

Thank you for taking the time to go through all of these rpg games. Too bad you did not show any video of the S tier.

Very comprehensive list and helpful to reaffirm what I already kind of knew about the Vita JRPG lineup, being a consumer of JRPG's since the NES and SMS days, and that's that the type of games and creative direction just drifted far away from the type of adventure games that appeal to me. Love the Ys games on here, it's my favorite franchise and the reason I bought a Vita in the first place. Trails games are also good though I have yet to play the Trails of Cold Steel games. Otherwise most of these games fall into sub-genres that I really don't care for; Monster Hunter clones, first-person dungeon crawlers, RPG hack and slash crossovers, visual novels, rogue likes, or games that just try to be weird and unorthodox just because. There are a few good, more conventional ones like Exist Archive and Tales of Hearts R but they are like diamonds in the rough of this lineup. Now that being said I'd love for English patches to happen on all of the Trails evolution PSP remasters and also Phantasy Star Nova someday. Overall the Vita can't hold a candle to SNES, Saturn, PS2, PSX, PC Engine/PC Engine CD, Mega Drive/Mega CD, or the PSP when it comes to high-end software. Based on the top level releases I'd even compare the N64 and Gamecube offerings favorably in spite of the quantity being modest.

Awesome video, it teases me to buy psvita now !

Lovely video. I watch it to the very end and I kinda agree 98% of your choices. 😎👍

Natural Doctrine is a masterpiece, one of my favourites in the system.

Could you make a list of them in order so we could all see your suggestions?

This will give me some titles to try on my new (used) Vita.

Surprised to see dungeon travels in E I haven’t played it but my friend says it’s her favorite vita game

perfect review👍👍😁

That Trails of Cold Steel series changed my life

Don't know why it clicked with me so hard but Oreshika was what kept me replaying my Vita all the way until my memory card just randomly died. Still have my Vita but the memory cards are so expensive to replace that I haven't used it in a while.

You're the best Erick!

Vita is the holy sanctuary of first person dungeon crawlers! I love them since the very first wizardry! Yeah, I'm old...

Nihon Falcom is reserved on the S tier

Our beloved Uncle Erick You da Man :)

That's beautiful. Thank you for compiling jrpgs. You forgot the Fate/extella Games. Im not sure if they're strictly Rpgs. I'd say they're hack n' slash jrpgs. And they're good games.

Kudos for Lost Dimension, my favorite game on Vita

Well, I understand that this is your list and your opinion, but, for real, giving a lowest grade to Dungeon Travelers 2, which is one of, if not the best dungeon crawlers on vita - challenging, like the old-school crawlers, with a lot of variety in builds and mechanics, plus also with a massive amount of post-game is a sin, imo

My must watch video since I owned a vita recently.

Awesome video

Natural Doctrine is quite fun once you understand the battle mechanics.

I liked your review

Just had to subscribe to get dem health buffs.

Gonna disagree on Dungeon Traveler 2. I'm not even a fan of the over the top ecchi character designs, but as a DRPG it has a ton of content and the combat system is quite fun with plenty of team and character customization. Definitely doesn't belong in the same tier as something like Mei Q, solid C tier for me.

it's so great the Vita truly is an RPG machine all this coupled with the Asian imports, the Japanese exclusive games that can be patched in using Repatch(Blue Reflection, I Am Setsuna, etc) the loads of PSP RPG's, The PS1 RPG's and the few Western RPG's. i wish there were a bit more Western RPG's, but hey, either Way the Vita is an S class console.

You mentioned a Taiwanese developed RPG in a video and I can't recall the title or find the video anymore, could you please tell me what it was? Thanks!

Accel world and Sword art online were originally light novel wrote by the same author, so, I think that is normal a crossover of them.

The way you described the girl prison game reminds me of when I was trying to play Ultra Despair Girls and my wife was sleeping and I was tyring to figure hour what to say if she woke up during the tentacle scene lol

Just saved me major money from spending on a game I had no idea was on the Ps Vita. I was gonna spend a lot of money on the switch for a overpriced game. It’s cheap on Ps Vita Tysm definitely subbing!!!!

Favourites from the vita I've played, mind zero, odin sphere leifthrasir, muramasa rebirth, tales of hearts r, I am trying to get into trails of cold steel but am struggling due to length of fights even though I really loved persona 5

I have a feeling most people still playing stuff on the Vita are just fiiiine with digital-only games. *eyebrow waggle*

..someone already mention that you missed Chaos Rings trilogy..another Japan only released with English language option is Airship Q.

23:35 this is just, fuck this game, lmao. Great list covering obscure games, probably the only youtube channel that keeps talking about the vita with this much passion

3:10 Adventures of Mana is very simple by todays standard since it's essentially a 1:1 port of the original Game Boy game with remade graphics (known as Final Fantasy Adventure in the US and Mystic Quest in the EU). So if you have the Mana Collection on Switch etc., you're not really missing out by playing the Game Boy game, but Adventures is a nice game that I enjoyed replaying. Definitely agree with C Tier. Sword of Mana is much more of a Remake/Reimagination, it adds a bunch of stuff. I don't think that Sword is necessarily better just because it has more (at times it feels more like a worse Secret of Mana), but it's a different experience than just playing the exact same game again with better graphics.

Conception 2 is a pretty fun Persona rip-off, but I spent way more time playing Oreshika. Sony published it on Vita, but I don't know if they own the rights, but this would be an excellent game on the switch.

My ps vita collection. Freedom wars, ragnarok odyssey ace, final fantasy x, toukiden, lost dimension, persona 4 golden, ultimate marvel vs capcom 3, Ys celceta, and tales of hearts… I lacked on ps vita honestly

Did you actually play Tales of Heart on DS? That game is fantastic.

Yes I needed this, I’m one of fanboys that bought it on release and haven’t regretted it yet

I never played the remakes but I do love FF Adventure after playing it on the Collection of Mana.

Actually Accel World may take place in the same universe as Sword Art , or atleast its referenced in Accel World.

actually Utawarerumono have 3 versions, 1 Mask of Deception, 2 Mask of Truth, and 3 Prelude to the Fallen which is just released in 2020. I don't play 1-2 but the 3 is absolutely the best game imo. It's kinna slow at first and a lot of dialouges that can make you sleep, and you have to watch 30 minutes cutscene to play a mission. But the combat system is a gem. A rank for me.

I know it's a particular case, but it's too bad to not see Chaos Rings here. As long as you have an asian account, the first three games are playable in english in the Chaos Rings III Prequel Trilogy compilation (originally only released in asian territories).

Super excited for this list, but some of these calls are a little wild. Something being "a hidden gem" gets a C along with something that runs extremely poorly.

just ordered a used one, this will help and shrink my bank account further I guess. :D

Falcom know how make great games... Ys 8 is my favourite action rpg ever.. Bough (and played) on ps vita, ps4 and pc. A masterpiece.

Fantastic list Erick! You’ve given me a few games I need to check out from it with Ray Gigant and Valkyria Revolution. I’m currently playing Trails of Cold Steel 1 (Ch. 4) and loving it. 100% agree it’s an S tier.

Did you miss persona 4 golden or I missed that part. Also, there are phantasy star nova, Blue-Winged Chevalier, Xeno Max for ps Vita as far as I know.

'medicore RPG let put it in c' 'great game, best in ar tonelico let put it in b' -.- flip the table

Lol, I got way too far into this video wondering where certain games were until I realized this is a Vita vid, not PSP & had to remember those were separate things

Just got GE Resurrection for 5$ digital on PS4/5.

can u go into detail on why u didn't like neptunia?

It is criminal to not put Soul Sacrifice in S tier.

What song is playing at 30 minutes in?

So the Vita didn't had a whole lot of action games eh... Was considering investing in one but the only game thats my type seems to be Tales of Hearts R, Akibas Beat, Tokyo Xanadu, Memories of Celceta and Lacrimosa of Dana

I'm going to advocate for the criminal girls series. I am sad to say I struggle sometimes in beating jrpgs. I was glued to thesr games and beat both. Sexualization is a valid reason to avoid, but i loved both.

P4G not in S+++? Wooooaahh

Can i have the soundtracks you used in the video please?

The SAO games are weird. The Hollow games are supposed to be MMORPG style games, and because of that I got sucked into Realization and spent over 150 hours on it. I still play it occasionally, and I got a lot of stuff to do. I skipped the story though so I didn't have to deal with that

I definitely tried Dragon Quest Builders and it was a fun game, but not on the Vita due to issues with backlighting during the night segments. If you are going for the platinum, play the PS4 version. It's much more of a couch comfort game. However, since there aren't any great games on the Vita, I might redownload this game and get all the challenges in it again just to have something to play on my walks. *shrug* Also, I don't know whether your Vita could handle it but mine cannot handle Secret of Mana - the game crashed and hardlocked my Vita forcing me to do a hard reboot of the system. (Of course, it could have been my Vita at the time was dying on a hill, I don't know if my new Vita could handle it. Not gonna risk it. :()

Utawarerumono in C and considered "ok" writing is absurd.

Me parece qué o no jugaste Natural Doctrine o no le diste la oportunidad que se merece, muchos lo tachan cómo un juego muy díficil y yo ya lo he terminado unas 5 veces y me parece excelente, lo único lamentable es lo corto que se hace cuando lo dominas y que no tenga otras historias o variaciones de mapa

There was also the Digimon games