

from the EU or NA stores), as well as some commentary on how well those games run on Vita and whether they fill any missing gaps in the library.įor some reason, shoot ‘em ups (or SHMUPs as I’ll likely refer to them for ease in this article) are a genre that have flourished on certain less commercially successful consoles – the Saturn was a haven for them at a time when it was a distant third in the market to the PS1 and N64, which then continued on to the Dreamcast and eventually the Xbox 360 despite the former being quickly discontinued and the latter largely ignored in Japan. The articles will highlight all Vita-native games, as well as any backwards-compatible PSP and PS1 titles which can be downloaded in English (i.e. The seventeenth in a series of articles I’m writing, looking at all the games available in a particular genre on Vita.
