#Obduction vr review how to
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Wanted to play this on PSVR with the new patch improving the graphics. I'm glad it exists, because super obtuse and high difficulty games like this have their place and their audience and they should get to enjoy them. I wanted to like this game much more than I did. and Farley's mutterings and half sentences (which were mostly all too distorted to hear anyway), because the story is so poorly delivered as to make it incoherent. It needed a far better script with dialogue that actually gives you information instead of C.W. The story is a pretty intriguing one and I was quite wrapped up in it, but felt very let down by the ending (note: I got the 'bad' ending, and had no idea what I needed to do differently until I looked it up) because I honestly just didn't understand what the hell was happening. The game is absolutely gorgeous, with some moments verging on being completely photorealistic. I have to wonder if Cyan make games like this on purpose, designed to really work for a certain kind of mind.

#Obduction vr review how to

I even attempted to read up on how to do base 4 maths, which is an important component of the game, and just could not get it. It's obviously entirely possible to piece everything together here yourself, but my brain just doesn't notice the important details and has no ability to solve the complex logic puzzles presented. Now, having now seen a YouTuber work their way through the entire game without needing any help, I recognise that my issues with this game mostly boil down to me being too stupid to understand. The further I went into the game the less I could understand what I needed to do to proceed. who is useless and doesn't give you any kind of genuine help (if you can even understand what he says - subtitles are essential). This is clearly demonstrated here with the character of C.W.

Mostly (and this is true of Cyan's other games) I just can't handle the lack of guidance or proper information on how to proceed. Especially since one of the main puzzle mechanics in the game forces you to sit through long loading screens repeatedly. Puzzles became way too much for me to handle and nothing but exercises in frustration. Then I got to the latter stages of the game and it just fell apart. There were some frustrations from a lack of information and some peculiar glitches not providing me with details/mechanics I needed, but a fun time was being had. I was enjoying working my way through it and figuring things out, piecing together the story and the world.

Exploration lead to discoveries and puzzle solutions that made sense. Most of the first half of the game, taking place in Hunrath, was quite good fun. Once you've worked it out, trying the iterations that you know will lead to understanding/completion should be easy and not padded out with travel and loading screens that you will have to sit through multiple times. There are puzzles that require telepotation between areas, which means loading screens, which means after I've worked out what I have to do, I'm going to look up the answer rather than spend an hour doing it, because the fun is in working it out. Some of the puzzles would need you to look them up on the internet if you don't want to spend hours just running between puzzle elements. I can see how, had the game been optimised properly and had no game breaking bugs it would have been a 9/10. If that hadn't happened I would have considered this 8/10, but it did and as a result I finished the game in under 10 hours when it should have been 30 hours for me to make my own way though, working out the puzzles. As a result I played with a walkthough because I had lost confidence in the game. Game glitched out requiring restart from the begining.