Vertical Robotic has delivered a stellar follow-up to its 2018 puzzler, Purple Matter. Getting into the footwear of Sasha, it’s as much as you to chase down and find your good friend — believed useless — earlier than uncovering an SOS message. This message leads you to a Soviet area station orbiting Saturn.
One factor that’s instantly apparent upon booting up Purple Matter 2 is simply how good it appears. Vertical Robotic has indisputably crafted some of the visually spectacular VR video games to this point. Whereas the graphical constancy is extraordinary, the artwork course actually seals the deal. Soviet structure could be very distinctive and the sport lovingly presents loads of brutalist design, with the occasional sprinkle of post-modernism, making for a title with a really sturdy visible id. Amid these environments, the sport offers many interactable gadgets, which is each a blessing and a curse.
On the constructive facet, a lot of these things are value in search of out, as practically every little thing within the recreation 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 tougher to seek out what you want for puzzles, as there’s simply so a lot. Some higher environmental cues would work wonders right here, however fortunately the sport offers 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 situation is merchandise manipulation. You could have two controllers with grippers on them to choose 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 obstacles or trapped beneath one thing else. It occurs sufficient to be noticeable however not fairly sufficient to be a serious drawback. The identical goes for utilizing telekinesis to succeed in gadgets, because the lasso-like tether to seize gadgets randomly fails to work.
In the end, the problems that come up aren’t sufficient to quash the immense stage of enjoyable or the mastery of design on show. Purple Matter 2 is a PSVR2 must-play.
