Gave it a little try. If it weren't VR, it'd be the most boring game ever - deserted space station, spooky whispers, snarky AI, you have to go around finding fuses - but it is still cool to be hanging out in a high fidelity sci-fi setting. It's still not as good as Alyx, obvs. One thing a lot of VR games just don't seem to twig to is how important world and object interaction is. You want to go peer at things, pick things up, throw things around etc. Your inputs are your eyes and your hands, that's what you want to be using all the time. And a - if not the - big selling point of VR is immersion.
Finished. It was bad enough that I don't know if I'll bother with the sequel, which is a shame considering I've already purchased it. I'll have to be more wary of the review 'VR bump' in future!
Basically, it's cool coasting around big well-rendered spaces in VR, but otherwise this is a fairly empty game with not much interaction and the only actual mechanics being a few simple logic puzzles. Movement is slow, and there are a couple of UI choices that mean everything takes more steps than it should. It feels like these choices were made to pad the game out tbh. Also, the story is pretty generic and then there's an abrupt twist ending which manages to simultaneously be nigh-incomprehensible and tired.
Rating: pretty but empty.
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