Despite being able to pick up right
where you left off with the PSVita's standby mode, there is a problem
that emerges from this situation--you may not be able to get back to
it for a while, and thus forget where you left off. In my situation,
sometimes I fall asleep while playing in bed, and can't remember what
happened the night before as I tried to fight off my sleep. Although
these are problems with console games as well, the randomness of
portable gaming tends to worsen this situation a bit more often for
me. Some games I've played (such as RPG's) provide no information
about what I should do next, so I then end up wasting the moments I
have with my PSVita searching around trying to figure out where I was
and what I was doing, only to have to put it down again because of
other distractions and demands. Without an objective tracker of some
sort in a game, playing some games on the PSVita can feel like an
exercise in Attention Deficit Disorder. I'm always very thankful when
game developers design their games with quest logs and map goals, so
that when I'm able to pick up where I left off again, I know what my
previous objectives were. Thankfully, a lot of game developers
anticipate this and even have catch-up summaries provided whenever
you load a game, which is a huge plus in visual novels and RPG's!
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