All of the magic however is of limited usage, and this is where it may become necessary to ‘sacrifice’ souls in order to restore offering. In all there is a staggering amount of magic available to you.

In typical RPG style, the weaponry has elemental properties, so for example fire and ice properties are added to weaponry which may be more effective against certain types of monster. In addition, there are a series of defensive weaponry that you can use, including shields, barriers, walls, and other effects including a rather useful raise of speed. All of the weaponry is visually impressive at least, some might form a giant fist which you can use to pummel enemies into submission, some enable you to turn into a giant stone ball that you can charge towards enemies. As you complete missions you will receive more and more weaponry to choose from. The ‘offerings’ are the magic that you can use, effectively your entire arsenal of weaponry available. When you start the game at least, you will choose ‘save’ in order to restore a bit of health, or ‘sacrifice’ to restore your ‘offerings’. There are differing effects depending on which you choose to do (and which faction you choose to belong to – more on that later). The differentiator in this game compared to others in the genre is the fact that you can choose then to ‘save’ or ‘sacrifice’ the soul of the individual concerned.

When you defeat an enemy, they appear to dissolve into a kind of black sludge from which emerges their original identity. It is set in a world of sorcerers, combating ‘monsters’ which appear to be horrific versions of real people (or animals?). Soul Sacrifice Delta came out in 2014 and was an expanded version of the Soul Sacrifice game that game out in 2012.

Toukiden, Freedom Wars, Ragnarok Odyssey Ace all feature in the Vita owners pantheon, but it is Soul Sacrifice that we are here to discuss today. In other words, games where you fight a series of battles against bosses, harvesting items from small battlefields and using those items to level up the armour and weaponry your character has to fight bigger and harder bosses. It should therefore be of no surprise that amongst the genres of game available on the Vita, the ‘Monster Hunter’ genre looms large. Gran Turismo, Kingdom Hearts, Peacewalker, all the kind of games that Vita owners would kill for, all came out in the supposed end years of the machine. Monster Hunter Portable 1st and 2nd, morphing into Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, was responsible in Japan at least for the continued popularity of the PSP console and its popularity there was probably responsible for the Indian summer of games that the console saw, long after interest had run out in the West. It is no secret that one of the biggest body blows to the Vita in it’s early life, was the decision by Capcom to move their ‘Monster Hunter’ franchise over to Nintendo platforms.

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