When comparing Lumines: Electronic Symphony vs Tearaway, the Slant community recommends Tearaway for most people. In the question“What are the best PS Vita games?” Tearaway is ranked 11th while Lumines: Electronic Symphony is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Tearaway is:
Tearaway uses a lot of the Vita's features, from the camera to the rear touch pad to get you through the story, but it's not so much that it gets tedious.
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Pros
Pro Plenty of unlockables
As the player progresses in each stage, each block dropped allows for points that can then be used to unlock skins and avatars. This gives incentive to keep playing the game for those that want to unlock every item in the game.
Pro It displays the Vita's features well
Tearaway uses a lot of the Vita's features, from the camera to the rear touch pad to get you through the story, but it's not so much that it gets tedious.
Pro Art design are phenomenal
The games graphical look is quite unique in that is resembles paper craft. The whole theme of the game is to create a world for the player to play in that looks as though it was created out of construction paper.
Cons
Con Multiplayer is only local
This greatly hold back the multiplayer found in the game as it can only be played with someone else who is in the same room and also owns the game and Vita.
Con Combat is not that refined
The combat in the game could be tighter and the mechanics used in order to defeat enemies is often a bit too convoluted. At certain points enemies need to be picked up and then thrown at other ones, this is an issue as the timing can often not feel that precise, which leads to mistakes being made too easily.