One of the thing i noticed in "Golden Abyss" is that in every Chapter, Characters will sooner or later eventually say a current Chapter Title. For example, when you start a Game, Dante will say, "I'm telling you it was Drake.", and then Prologe Chapter Title pops up, with words "I'm telling you it was Drake."

On the topic of the Vita, if you havent played Tearaway, i highly recommend it! It uses every function of the Vita in ways that feel organic and make sense, and is a super fun and charming game. Honestly I'd recommend getting a Vita just for it tbh (but then I'd also recommend a little warranty voiding lmao)

This and “Gravity Rush” were among the first Vita games I owned. It’s such a shame that the handheld didn’t do so well because it had great potential. I’m just happy that “Gravity Rush” didn’t get left behind and was actually given a second life on PS4 as well as its long-awaited sequel.

I see the big box of tissues....but where's the lotion?

The 3DS also got cheaper after its initial price drop. The different revisions like the 2DS line were even more affordable. The Vita? Uh got bundles? But if you ask me, the 3DS being made to let the user use any type of SD card opposed to the Vita’s propriety memory cards was a factor to the Vita’s poor reception.

I think the one thing Golden Abyss has going for it is it's the only game in the series with gyro aiming, which I vastly prefer over pure twinstick. It's nowhere near as good as it could be because it runs at 2 frames a second, but it's still a more fluid feeling of aiming than anywhere else in the series and it's fun to imagine what could have been if the game ran at a vaguely playable speed (well I guess we have mouse aiming on PC now but still)

Yesterday I finished uncharted 4 and it was amazing although 2 is still my favourite of the series. Your uncharted videos are the reason I got back into uncharted, it was quite good timing because your uncharted video a few weeks ago was the same day I got back into playing uncharted 2 and now I’m a massive man of uncharted! So thanks to you Uncharted 2 is my second favourite game of all time so thank you!

I love that J just sits at a desk facing the camera, it feels like a meeting with my banker became a uncharted retrospective

This is definitely a game you had to be there for. I played it on launch and was absolutely amazed by the fact that I could play a game like that on native portable hardware.

The PS Vita is one of my favorite video game consoles of all time, which makes its mishandling all the more frustrating really.

Briefly owned a Vita a year or two ago so I could play Persona 4 Golden, The Ratchet and Clank trilogy and a bunch of other games. Very, very good and underrated portable console. Played so well and the OLED screen was so vibrant.

Given how hard/expensive it is to track down this game for a discontinued system, I actually would love to see it get the remastered treatment that Assassin's Creed: Liberation got, so it could be ported to other systems and PC. Update the graphics and rework the 'gimmicks' to make it more controller-friendly. Even if it's not the best in the series, it would be nice for those who'd still like to experience it, but never got their hands on a PS Vita. Seems like a shame for this title to be rotting in obscurity.

Steam Deck feels like what the Vita should have been.

Thank you for covering Golden Abyss!!!

I'm glad to see someone else covering this game! I had fun with it, but I always found the mini games with the touchscreen quite odd, especially mid cutscene.

The proprietary memory card prices were obscene. I loved the Vita but cost of the device + memory card put together was simply too much. Then Sony abandoned it and there never really was a true system seller. Side note the UI was a downgrade from the PSP UI ironically.

You know, I do feel bad about the Vita failure. It could have been so succesful but oh well. Can't change history.

someone finally talks about Uncharted golden abyss and they don't even bring up the amazing collectible system in it with the connected mysteries and investigations related to them ad every collectible having descriptions, drake may even commentate on some collectibles too. best collectibles in the series hands down

Bend should have made a sequel to Resistance: Retribution.

I feel the Steam Deck is the true successor to the Vita as it succeeded where the Vita failed, as in it allowed you to play home console games on the go. Like I can play games like Spider-Man 2016, God of War and Returnal with little to no compromises.

I adored the Vita and still play mine fairly often. Honestly I felt that Gravity Rush was a better exclusive for sure, good enough they ported it and made a PS4 sequel.

Had lots of fun playing this game back in the day im sure its not as great now

love your videos :D

I wouldn't mind if this game got a remake, imagine it in Uncharted 4 style graphics and better story and better gameplay

If the Vita had uesd Sd cards and not Sony stupid special ones and if Sony created the tools to port android games to run on the Vitas ARM processor I think the Vita could have been a success. To me the steep price of the console and mandatory Stupidly expesive memorycard pushed the Vita into a wihrlpool it had no power to escape Not enough consoles sold no developers intrested in developing, no developing no sold systems. I bought the Vita day 1 and I loved the hardware, exept the stupidly poor cameras( they was bad even when it lauched)

I got a PS Vita at launch and was a huge fan. Sony really messed up with the pricing as well as other things.that said I really enjoyed golden abyss and although gimmicky I liked the implementation of the vita's functions like camera and touch screen

Golden Abyss definitely had its issues but i loved this game i’ve played it so many times over

Damnit Sony should just take care of the PlayStation Vita instead of treating it like trash. And it's sad because the Vita was away head of its time.

How did you get through the section where you need to use Vita's back camera? Did warranty breakers make a plugin workaround for that?

The PS Vita didn’t fail, Sony failed the Vita. Vita means life.

I know it's late but the ds4touch plugin makes the dual shock 4 touchpad not require an actual "press" on pstv. Making touch inputs much easier.

Gyro aiming is amazing.

The failure of the Vita was such a shame but I'm glad that handheld PC gaming has taken its place to finally give us the full console experience on the go.

I still want to play this game so badly! I’m desperate for another Uncharted game.

What I think Golden Abyss really offered was a case for having Gyro controls for aiming in Shooters. I would never have this much fun sniping on a controller or handheld until the Switch.

YES this is the one I’ve been waiting for. I actually just beat this game for the first time a few weeks ago and snagged the platinum.

Great video

I bought a Vita around the time it launched and logged many, many hours on it. There's a lot of games on it that I personally like. Uncharted Golden Abyss Gravity Rush Soul Sacrifice (my personal favorite) Freedom Wars Muramasa Persona 4 Golden There are some really amazing games on here. But it does not even come close to any of Sony's other offerings. The Vita lacks variety in its library. It mostly consists of JRPGs because that's what kept the system afloat after that first year or so. All of the exclusives that aren't JRPGs came out in that first year. It really feels like that Sony had the opposite approach with this thing compared to Nintendo with the 3DS. When it wasn't an instant success instead of trying to support it and do damage control they stepped back and did nothing to help it. I doubt they could have done much to go against the 3DS, but it would have definitely not been nearly as bad. The lack of games really is the nail in the coffin for the Vita. People complain about the memory cards, Sony talks about how mobile phones hurt game sales for handhelds. BS. I don't doubt that stuff factors in, but it's not enough to kill a system. Look at the 3DS it did amazing despite mobile phones. And I'm sure if there had been more games to play people would have sucked it up about the memory cards. In the end why do we buy consoles? To play games. Who's going to buy a console that has a lackluster library?

The behind the scenes and development is so interesting for this game too, like originally having a younger Nate and some settings like New Orleans

This was my first Uncharted game and I remember replaying this a few time. I loved the PSVita. I never owned a PS3 or Xbox 360

I love my Vita, and I'm not even an early adopter. I got a Vita after they were already basically dead. I think it's a great console for many reasons. The indie library on it alone is worth owning it for, especially when you add in the PSP library and PSOne classics it can play. It's a portable Sony legacy system. But it also absolutely had many killer exclusive games. I love Uncharted golden abyss - more than the first and third PS3 games in fact. Tearaway is also fantastic. The Vita version of Little Big Planet is also the best one in the series IMO. Wipeout is amazing. Killzone Mercenary is almost a reason to own one on it's own. Soul Sacrifice, Gravity rush, Unit 13, Modnation Racers, Freedom Wars, Resistance, countless JRPGs. The list goes on. Some of these eventually made it to other systems well after the fact, but they were Vita exclusives when released. Some like LBP, Killzone, and Uncharted still are. It certainly had it's problems, and it absolutely could have used more AAA games, but I've never regretted picking one up, and I still play it regularly.

i played this game last year when i bought a vita, i loved it, specially the gyro aim, but with all the minigames (they where fun the first time) i find it very hard to come back and play it again.

I love the term warranty voider, im using it from now on

If there is one thing I will give the Vita, it does have the best Super Monkey Ball game since 2005

Freedom wars on Vita was so fun. I platinum it

Amazing review as always! But I have a question! What's with the tissues at the beginning? Lmao.

The VITA has do much potential to be a great handheld for the Playstation line and complete with Nintendo's.

The vita maybe a failure in sales but it is forever alive in our memory and after modding it, it's definitely a gem of a portable device that can play nes,SNES,genesis,N64,Dreamcast,ps1,psp,psvita, GTA trilogy,Max Payne and many other homebrew stuff.

I could never get too invested in the vita due to the memory cards costing a ridiculous amount . I get it sony wanted max profit but that was a terrible decision i never bothered buying too many games due to just no space .

Thinking about the Vita makes me sad sometimes. It had so much potential, but due to some poor decisions around it and the timing of its release, it was an unfortunate failure. I had such high hopes for it, I got it day...2, since the day after its release (in North America) was my 18th birthday. Nowadays, everything is just too expensive on it. As for Uncharted Golden Abyss, it's...alright. I've only played through it twice and considering the price of the Vita and everything for the Vita and the fact that I play Uncharted more for the story than the gameplay, I'll just watch the cutscenes on KZfaq if I really want to go through it again. I don't have my Vita anymore due to all the shortcomings.

I'm gonna be real I use my Vita more than my Switch or 3ds and I love those things. The Vita was an indy powerhouse, a lot of my favorite multi-player games like Monster Hunter God Eater Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice were homed there along with Gravity Rush which I think is hands down best on Vita. Sony was just terrible in the US at handling the system and the advent of hand held devices like you mentioned did not help it. Oh and yea those fucking memory cards. I got a 63 gig from Japan for 100 bucks and that burn was enormous.

I still love and have my ps vita I’ve had it for years and play it from time to time

Not gonna lie, this is the first time I'm even HEARING about Fight for Fortune's existence... Is it a mobile game?

I still own my OG Vita that I purchased back in 2013. I love that thing.

Gran turismo was amazing on the psp (been playing it today!) I’m so gutted they didn’t make a version for the Vita :(

In a few years this should be playable on android phones via vita3k, on PC obviously the game is playable from what I've seen, but graphics, audio, and probably lack of gyro might affect that.

Speaking of the Vita another thing about it was that it had its share of PS3 ports. Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, ports of the Jak Ratchet and Sly collections just to name a few.

I never got a chance to play this game because I never owned a Vita and I sure hope that one day we can get a Remake or Remaster of this game with better controls and it could maybe look good as Uncharted 4 but considering how the series is over and we will probably never get another uncharted game I guess it will never happen now but you never know

Sick vid

I think golden abyss is better than uc1, and 4..

I wouldn't have made the Wii U comparison in regard to using the Vita as a controller for the PSTV. Instead, I would've mentioned how the GameCube Game Boy Player lets you use a Game Boy Advance connected via the GameCube GBA Link Cable as a controller. Still a really good video though.

Ig i am one of those people that not only really liked my vita but also liked golden abyss and how it used the functionality of the vita. I enjoyed using the touch features as it was something different than the uncharted games thati had played on the ps3. to each there own

3:38 *looks at my collection of 30 games* "Uhh...👀"

I still play the hell out of golden abyss just as much as the main games

Honestly, the studios motive of using everything on the vita otherwise there was no point is admirable, as I can imagine back then, it felt futuristic. With foresight, the reason I think touch screen and gyro, unless they improve upon an existing thing, require more effort. Currently, some of the best use for gyro isn’t for boats or balancing, but for shooters. Touch screen, we’ll actually, the usage hasn’t really changed, rather the things you used it for in the game were too simple and unnecessary. But, honestly, I liked their mindset.

Great video but how many times did you say gimmick?

Dude. I still use my vita. Right now I'm finishing my first full playthrough of the MGS franchise. Vita has most of them and is my preferred place to play

I heard in another video on KZfaq that the 3DS had the same rocky start as the vita but the difference was Nintendo decided to fix/work with their mistakes while sony decided to basically kill the vita for the ps4

For someone that only had a PS2 and Nintendo lite getting this with my vita was amazing. I thought it looked good for a game and actually loved the game. Its so nostalgic to 12 or 13 year old me.

I think a big reason the Vita flopped was that it was either ports like the Sky and Jak & Daxter collections, or games like Golden Abyss that tried to emulate a console game on the Vita. Golden Abyss should’ve been something like ‘Escape From Dead Island’ that had a different art style and gameplay style from the flagship game ‘Dead Island.’ If they had done this, the gimmicks of the Vita would’ve meshed much better with what the final product would’ve been. Alas, the ambitions of ‘X game but on the go’ was a big part of what made the Vita fail in the US.

Even though most of the games are now available on other consoles, I still enjoyed the Vita for letting me play stuff like this, the Danganronpa series and P4G (and to a lesser extent Dancing All Night which is easier to access the game without buying the Endless Night bundle for the other dancing games)

If you love uncharted, you'll love this game. It's better than Uncharted 4 and that spin off game. But not as good as the 2nd or 3rd. And for God sake play the game the way it was meant to be played, on the Vita! And if you liked the Killzone series, then the Vita is practically worth getting just for these 2 games alone. KZ: Mercenaries is a masterpiece. And both of these games are stunning when played on the Vita, even today and especially how they look on the Vita's oled.

Ok now P4G is multiplatform but it took in the area of a decade.. I’m def disappointed Sony dropped the ball with Vita by not supporting like they should.. However I have no regrets asking my dad who’s no longer with us to get me it for Christmas 2012 instead of a 3ds.. I had a ton of fun with it, had a pretty good collection that played great and I even use it still to this day.. It’s primarily because of Golden Abyss that I’m a huge Uncharted fan because Uncharted 1 did not initially hook me at first.. Also certain games I feel work better on PSV due to the touchscreen elements like Walking Dead & Dragons Crown.. Moreover in its prime it could even function as a mini pc as you could surf the net and use all the apps like Netflix & Hulu.. So in ways it was far more diverse than the Switch Oled I’m using now.. There was really no loss for me being I picked up a 2ds dirt cheap granted much later

I wish this game gets ported to the Playstation 5 (or Playstation 4).

Chase and Golden Abyss weren't COMPLETELY inconsequential... they do get shoutouts in Uncharted 4 lol

I’ve played this so many times over the years, i’ve had a Vita since around I turned 13 in 2012 and have a lot of complex emotions about it. Overall i love it and own two plus a Vita Tv. Seeing people jump on the bandwagon in the last couple years has been so weird

There was also a mobile game spinoff but it shut down years ago and you can't download it anymore.

Anyone managed to play the 3rd birthday on the vita ? . I played it on the psp and thougt it was a really good game . Sadly its not availsble in the store and the library is smaller now but can still find alot of games if you just search rather than going through the highlighted list. Would love to see a retrospective video of the 3rd birtday on the psp 👍

I always wondered how come they never ported it to consoles

Sony should've stuck with the UMD disk format with the Vita and made it backwards compatible with the games and movies available on the PSP...silly Sony. P.S. I'm still disappointed that they didn't include Golden Abyss in the Nathan Drake Collection. They def could've successfully ported it with a little work because the PS4's Dual Shock 4 controller already had the capability to use both motion and touchpad features.

Uncharted Golden Abyss is a fantastic Uncharted game, a fantastic Vita game and just a fantastic game overall.

if the tissue box means anything you must really like uncharted, huh ..... or the vita in which case, me too man

This game was demoed at E3 2011 alongside the ps vita. It was the only game Sony released that made the vita worth purchasing. It wasn’t enough and the price was just too high to justify its purchase

Man if Sony did not have a falling out with capcom, p3rdu and 4 would've been great on vita. Plus sony should've made its own souls game on vita.Toukiden series should've been made as portable nioh.

Sucks how Sony abaondoned the Vita, I tried Gravity Rush and a demo unit shortly after it released and though it was a really impressive piece of tech for the time

I wish they could've tied the characters in or used characters that tied in to the main series but I love this game , especially for the time this is a well done uncharted game that gives me everything I like about uncharted games , felt like playing drakes fortune for the first time ... only complaint is yeah the touch screen qte is kinda meh

I enjoyed the game. Gimmicks and all. Replayed it last year for some trophy hunting and had fun all the way.

Ah, the PS Vita...great awesome system. But it sadly came out at the wrong time right when mobile games were starting to ramp up and it pretty much killed off the handheld systems overall. And then the Switch changed that in such a way.

The only game I wanted from vita was Muramasa Rebirth and that was just a cooler version of an amazing game i have o Wii.

I cant recall where you started doing half (ish) of your review videos with gameplay and then other half of face to face But i gotta say i find the shots of your sitting at your desk talking at us extremely awkward lmao Not trying to be rude at all but theres something about the lighting or framing or something that does work with me. It also feels like youre just reading off a teleprompter instead of talking casually Just thought id give some very late feedback on that. I personally preferred the videos being mostly B roll or gameplay. Though im someone that doesnt particularly care too much whout facecam in videos , to be fair Still really enjoy the videos either way!

I like the ps vita more than the switch. It has good enough power and it's easy on the hands. The joysticks aren't directly underneath the d pad and buttons. They're slightly offset, combined with the rounded edges which made playing shooters quite comfortable with good accuracy. It's also small enough to fit in your pocket. You can't even put a switch lite in your pocket. The vita was ahead of the times.

Bro is so dedicated to uncharted😂

Love your videos

Cant think of vita games other than gravity rush and persona 4 golden

Just bought this

i spent hundreds of hours on vita with persona4 golden, soul sacrifice and toukiden

The Only Vita games I know well are Gravity Rush (Who's sequel is my second favourite game.) and Persona 4 golden. (Ironically its sequel, specifically Persona 5 royal, is my actual favourite game.) Played both on other consoles though so that speaks to the sad state of the vita.

This game deserves a remaster.

Bro why is his voice perfect for video game reviews? Get this man with IGN!

Coming from 1-3, I didn't find the touch and gyro intrusive at all. And I HATED compulsory DS Stylus and Wiimote waggling The payoff in this game comes when you see all the gold at the end of the game