On the IGN review topic:
I'm not going to say again how any review is just an opinion as anything else, just with the added drama of being mediatically multiplied.
But...
We must admit that the reviewers are almost forced to come up with bad scores, for coherence... I mean: when an high budget game comes out, it's often a rebuild or an episode of a serie that went strong on PS consoles, so the judgement is always on the lines of "blah, blah, blah, the game is not bad, but this is not an experience to the level of what the game was on PS3, framerate is not perfect, resolution is fuzzy, blah, blah, blah.... Then, some otaku game gets translated, and you already know what the review is going to be, with finger pointed to pantsu, oppai, little girls sexualization and such, and of course otaku stuff is made by mid-low sized studios, where sometimes just coding a dungeon crawler requires a major productive effort... Then an indie comes out, and it's, of course, and indie priced at 3.99 dollars, and can't get the same review tones of The Last of US.
The problem is that the positioning of Vita was all about its power, graphics, double sticks. If you notice, such reviews don't happen with the 3DS, where its positioning is all about silly and light games with hilarious characters for kids and casual consumers. 3DS delivers just that, and everyone, including the reviewer, is happy.
My conclusion is that Vita should expecially host games that are meant to be their typical games, where it can shine. PS2 and PS3 ports, indies, akihabara stuff should be a sort of surrounding of a core Vita library built around those kind of games that, for example, gave personality to the PSP... Stuff like Monster Hunter, Crisis Core, Peace Walker, Dissidia, should have an equivalent (not necessarely a new installment by the same developer, just an equivalent) on Vita... And I'll leave it to you to suggest what American games should complete the line up... But there aren't any... Just quickly done revivals, some inferior version of console stuff, indies and harem JRPGs... And reviewers are probably puzzled, and shoot against this stuff...
