Crimson Matter 2 Assessment (PS5 / PSVR2)

Vertical Robotic has delivered a stellar follow-up to its 2018 puzzler, Crimson Matter. Moving into the sneakers of Sasha, it’s as much as you to chase down and find your buddy — believed useless — earlier than uncovering an SOS message. This message leads you to a Soviet house station orbiting Saturn.

One factor that’s instantly apparent upon booting up Crimson Matter 2 is simply how good it appears. Vertical Robotic has unquestionably crafted one of the vital visually spectacular VR video games up to now. Whereas the graphical constancy is extraordinary, the artwork path actually seals the deal. Soviet structure could be very distinctive and the sport lovingly gives loads of brutalist design, with the occasional sprinkle of post-modernism, making for a title with a really robust visible id. Amid these environments, the sport gives many interactable objects, which is each a blessing and a curse.

On the optimistic facet, a lot of this stuff are value in search of out, as practically all the pieces within the sport may be scanned. And the sport hides a lot of its funniest jokes in these entries, so discover as a lot as you’ll be able to. Nonetheless, this merchandise density makes it more durable to search out what you want for puzzles, as there’s simply a lot. Some higher environmental cues would work wonders right here, however fortunately the sport gives an immersive sufficient world that issues by no means get too irritating. It helps that almost all of the puzzles are intelligent and belief the participant to have the ability to determine issues out to a level that puzzle video games are sometimes reluctant to do.

A extra irritating challenge is merchandise manipulation. You have got two controllers with grippers on them to select issues up on this planet, however there’s an inconsistency with the physics. Typically, grabbing an object is trivial, however different occasions you’ll discover issues getting hitched on invisible limitations or trapped beneath one thing else. It occurs sufficient to be noticeable however not fairly sufficient to be a serious downside. The identical goes for utilizing telekinesis to succeed in objects, because the lasso-like tether to seize objects randomly fails to work.

Finally, the problems that come up aren’t sufficient to quash the immense degree of enjoyable or the mastery of design on show. Crimson Matter 2 is a PSVR2 must-play.