PSvita/PSP games recommendations?

[Mukky]

Got my modded PSvita ready to go, looking for solid reccs. I'm pretty familiar with the PSvita library already so I'd prefer PSP reccs, or more obscure stuff for PSvita

 

[brawler]

LocoRoco - One of my personal faves from my childhood. Super cute, satisfying gameplay.
Me & My Katamari - Portable katamari. Can't go wrong with that!
Armored Core: Formula Front - Armored Core, but its just the arena mode. The sport of dueling has become a worldwide competition, so all the mechs have sponsors on them. Personally, that is my JAM!!!
Initial D Street Stage - Near faithful port of the Arcade Stage 3, hours of techinical racing fun, I am heavily biased
Need For Speed Carbon:Own The City - Unique Take on the Carbon era, with a surprisingly enjoyable story and impressive amount of content for the PSP
Midnight Club LA Remix - Another impressive racing game for the console, with that great Midnight Club racing feel
Ridge Racer - A surprisingly great installment in the series.

I am trying not to list only racing games, but on my PSP, that's all I really play hah! If not that, I use it to play PS1 games, which still blows my mind to this day. Nothin beats playing RR4 on the go!

 

[Andrew]

The PSP port of Star Wars Battlefront 2 is essential.

Other great ones I can think of off the top of my head- you can play every game in the third generation Armored Core series aside from Nexus and Nine Breaker & those are phenomenal. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep is a great game and very impressive for the PSP.

For Vita - Freedom Wars, Persona 4 Golden

 

[Mukky]

The PSP port of Star Wars Battlefront 2 is essential.

Other great ones I can think of off the top of my head- you can play every game in the third generation Armored Core series aside from Nexus and Nine Breaker & those are phenomenal. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep is a great game and very impressive for the PSP.

For Vita - Freedom Wars, Persona 4 Golden

Freedom Wars is the best "Hunter" game ever released IMHO, the gameplay is just top-notch, I even grinded out my 1 mil years to Citizen status!

P4G is amazing, one of my favourite games of all time haha

That Battlefront 2 port is seriously impressive, I can't imagine how people must've felt back in the day, having that on-the-go! I'd imagine it was a glimpse at "Console Quality" actually being true.
I only got into it years later when I first hacked my vita.

The ones I haven't played in that list is Armoured Core, deffo wanna jump into that portably.

 

[Andrew]

I'd imagine it was a glimpse at "Console Quality" actually being true.

Yup! Blew me away. There are a set of PSP exclusive (ok, I guess they also got crappy DS versions that don't play the same) sequels too that have elements from the cancelled console Battlefront 3. They're really, really good too but I can't remember their names for the life of me.

 

[Mukky]

Yup! Blew me away. There are a set of PSP exclusive (ok, I guess they also got crappy DS versions that don't play the same) sequels too that have elements from the cancelled console Battlefront 3. They're really, really good too but I can't remember their names for the life of me.

I've played those too!!! Very impressive games, the story mode was actually pretty neat, I remember playing heaps of the Galactic Conquest on Elite Squadron

 

[Term]

For me the whole PSP library might as well just be Rock Band Unplugged. There's nothing else like it out there. Wish someone would make a clone of it or something

 

[TheJEEMON]

Got my modded PSvita ready to go, looking for solid reccs. I'm pretty familiar with the PSvita library already so I'd prefer PSP reccs, or more obscure stuff for PSvita

I personally would recommend the God of war titles on PSP and Vita through Chains of Olympus, and Ghost of Sparta. In addition there was a collection on the Vita which would contain the first 2 titles in the series.