Tearaway Unfolded review

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As Sony's last-gen library slowly but surely makes its way to the PlayStation 4 in remastered form, award-winning Vita curiosity Tearaway was surely the least likely candidate for the port treatment.
It is, after all, a game that was designed from the ground up to be a Vita exclusive, building not only its controls but its core gameplay around the front and rear touchscreens, the cameras and all the other features that only the Vita offers. Surely transplanting the game to PlayStation 4, to be played via joypad and TV, would mean excising so much of what made Tearaway so magical?
In theory, yes. In practice, no. Tearaway was built from the ground up for the Vita, and so Tearaway Unfolded has been rebuilt for the DualShock 4. This is much more than a spruced up remaster. This is a bottom to top remake, with entirely new gameplay mechanics and large sections of the game changed completely to accommodate them.
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