On December 24th, Sony closed down the servers for three of its most popular PlayStation Vita exclusive games: Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice Delta, and Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines. Despite not announcing a portable successor, Sony has been winding down its support for the Vita since 2019, when production stopped on hardware and physical cartridges. Last July, Sony stopped developers from submitting Vita games to the store.
Freedom Wars was a first-party title for the PlayStation Vita and to date is only available on the console. Set in a dystopian future, citizens must grapple, fight and take down mechs in order to gather resources and repay their debt to society. Due to its difficulty, the online multiplayer was one of the most popular components of the title.
Soul Sacrifice and its upgrade Soul Sacrifice Delta are PlayStation Vita exclusive titled created by Keiji Inafune of Street Fighter and Mega Man fame. As you defeat creatures based on fairytales, you can choose to save them and increase defense or sacrifice them to increase your attacking capabilities. This is another game that had a popular online multiplayer mode.
The final game Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines is an RPG with a cell-shaded art style where you frequently swap out and “breed” new party members. This game did not have online multiplayer, but by scanning QR codes players could download more powerful characters to use.
The PlayStation Vita celebrated its tenth anniversary on December 17th last year, just seven days before these games had their online capabilities taken away.
(All information was provided by NME)
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