I can't fully answer you on my phone (or even see what games you linked), so that'll have to wait until I get back home.

Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Its hard to go back to 3DS sequels when the Vita's library is so much more fresh and exciting. I enjoyed Fire Emblem Awakening and Etrian Odyssey IV in spite of them being stuck in the Stone Age of JRPGs. A Link Between Worlds, my favorite game, epitomizes the first sentence of this post, as I yearned for the challenge and originality of Link's Awakening and Ages/Seasons. Mario 3D Land drives it home with great gameplay soured by short and easy levels filled with recycled ideas. Little Big Planet was everything I hoped Mario would be - hearty levels flavored with fun surprises and innovative mechanics, making full of use of the touch screen, track pad, and gyroscope. It also has a great user-generated content community, seamless online multiplayer, and one of the most innovative approaches to local multiplayer I have ever seen on a handheld.
If by "Stone Age of JRPGs" you mean "Golden Age of Gaming", I'll agree with you. Bravely Default falls into that category as well, where designers have cut out the junk that has been weighing down the genre these past years and focused on the core, and making that excel.

And if you honestly think that the Oracle games were more innovative than Link Between Worlds, you're making me wonder just how much is nostalgia goggles, and how much is lack of proper observation, because LBW is probably the most innovative 2D game the series has had.

The Vita is one of those rare systems that both drives and rides the cutting-edge of gaming, while the 3DS watches it pass by. You seem only concerned with the library and I can see why. The 3DS falls even further behind compared to what the Vita can do: Remote Play for every PS4 game, the wider range of apps, free to play mobile titles, and the cross-buy program. I've also had a lot of fun with Lone Survivor, Street Fighter x Tekken, Unit 13, ModNation Racers Road Trip through PS+ and I get more free games every month.
And the PS4 can post things to Facebook, but that's hardly a reason to get the system. I focus on the library because the library is what matters. If I want something that can play console games on handheld, that's awesome (though it's becoming more and more common). If I want a game system, I look to the games.

Also, you pay for PS+, and only get the games while you do. They are not "free".