Análises recentes de PAN|ophobia

As a Valve Index user,
me and the boys have been dipping into this for years throughout early access to launch and my oh my what an (ongoing) adventure!

The audio is *insane*.
Pro-tip: Mute discord, use the in-game voice and smartwatch mic
(Hold left A button on the index controller to talk)

This VR gem is the next gen of Phasmophobia:
- Ghost types are actually meaningful
(invisible, attracted to light, doesn't like flashlight, sound, torch, minions, ...)
- More enemies (Mejah, spirit, crocodiles, snakes, crawling torso mutant things, ...)
- More customization from cosmetics to gameplay (timed, # of revives, PvP revive, ...)
- vastly larger crypts vs house/school with very different themes and traps
- Treasure (with collectibles private museum)
- Puzzles
- Upgrades for investigation tools

On top of it all rather than just writing the type in your notebook and leaving,
you can actually venture down and banish the evil in a mini bossfight!

I've never been this scared while having the best time.
Don't miss out on this sale.
Don't miss out on the VR game of 2024.

Enlisted mixes that janky good for nothing AI with the feeling of something exciting and "new":
A multiplayer shooter with a squad of your own.

It hasn't been since Flashpoint: Operation Armstrong I've experienced a fast & jank shooter.

Bolt action rifles are accurate but slow enough you'll shoot one and get absolutely murdered by the other 4 enemy riflemen,
machine guns are overpowered indoors,
tanks die due to grenades.

I've not felt so bad and good at a WW sim at the same time since Battlefield 1942

I nominate this game for the "Innovation" award as F2P online multisquad shooter,
and invite you to join me.

The laundromat is a chore rather than a simulator or game
but the growing list of mini arcade games grew on me and hit suprisingly close to home in spite of having been a decade too young to enjoy having pocket money at an arcade.

I'll always remember the hotel basement arcade with the only vacation me and my dad ever took in Spain. "Knuckles and Knees" got close to the machine we checked out thrice.

[Praydog's UEVR Valve Index Review]

Got this bad boy in this months RE humble bundle.
note: I "skipped" RE3 back in the day so I was very excited to see what this game was all about.

I recommend RE3 as a VR action movie title-- but after RE2 which is just more a proper horror game.

The good
- Fantastic engine, again a seamless loading screenless experience allows for running from zombies into cutscene after cutscene, one a bit more action themed than the other
- The VR Controls are identical to the RE2 mod, which are fantastic! (Except for 1 part, check spoilers)
-- The mod offers a native VR experience
- Campaign/content length that will be hard to beat in native VR titles
- Some replayability with store point bonus incentives aimed at speed running the game (Not for me)
- Several nods of the original RE2 sidecharacters and story
- You don't spend half the game in the same police headquarters infinitely backtracking anymore

The meh
- Wider range of enemies, some interesting ones, though none carry dread
1 is just annoying (see spoilers below)
- Full Automatic Weapons, and then a reset of the RE2 loadout...
- There is a dodge button so you can just play bunny hop over zombies now (Granted they're faster)

Things I wish I knew going in
Incendiary grenade launcher rounds are next to useless... until the very last Nemesis fight

Nemesis drops loot boxes as you shoot him while shooting at you

Zombies feel faster right from the beginning, we have annoying enemies to deal with that can "only" be taken out by magnum headshots.

I dropped out of VR the "final shot", maybe I'm bad but at 4 failed attempts in VR and a second attempt success with the mouse and keyboard,
I feel it was overtuned by the VR mod controls or bugged.

Valve index VR modded review

Got this bad boy on this months RE Humble Bundle
The RE flavor of horror where you're unable to interact as a zombie bite cinematic plays seems like a bad VR choice, but it works.

First person view VR controls feel native with the exception of 2 puzzles. (3rd person is jank)
To my surprise pulling drawers open has hand tracking support.
The gun tracking was spot on, flashlight tracking (other hand) was sometimes jank switching between head and hand.
You can play the full game in VR though be mindful of switching to 3rd person on the 1st bossfight to make him re-appear again and going back to flat mode for puzzles/viewing your map

As a returning veteran from the PS1 Game, the RE2 remake makes 2 noticeable improvements:
1. No more awkward loading screen door/locker opening animations (Or surprises when opening these)
The world is now "open-world" which makes the shuffling of footsteps in the floor above all the scarier
2. Save ribbons no longer exist (more inventory space yay) though you still can only save progress at the typewriter
WARNING: The game has an auto-save feature but this ONLY works for DYING.
If you wish to close the game and resume it, remember to use the typewriter (Unless you're going for S+ speedruns there's really no reason not to).

The extra voice acting and light story modifications make this remake extra fresh.

Sneak a VR gameplay peek here (Spoilers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir5qA17tScI

Hints I wish I knew when I picked this up again
When a key item is fully used, it will display a checkmark making it safe to store
Examine ALL random items, rotating them until you see a "Push A" text to loot/modify them
Trying to open a locked door with a symbol (Heart, clubs, diamonds or spade) will mark it on your map
A room in red means there's something left to loot/do in that room, looking at loot will make it appear in the map
It's ok to run past some puzzles that don't make sense yet, you actually do return to the Police HQ numerous times
The vault / locker codes are both spread in the world and on documents, you don't need to read documents carefully, clues they're VERY BIG (usually in background image).
Sewer dinosaur: run LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT then GRENADE the pipe he's chewing
On the orphanage hide & seek hide
1. behind the far boxes, going merry around
2. when Chief Irons stubs his foot, go through the moved desks behind the far away desk, DO NOT MOVE from there

I played for an hr completing 7/9? levels
It's a mini fun although rather easy game

Unfortunately it won't run anymore neither after
- verifying local files
- reinstalling
- deleting local game folder and reinstalling

There don't seem to be a big number of resources to support this, other games are fine.
EDIT: The reinstalling a 3rd time (With a PC reboot) the next day all worked fine and I completed the remaining giant arena and "boss fight"

It remains a fun mini game but I wouldn't recomend it today over melee modern titles such as "Until you fall", granted this one is not aiming to be a serious melee VR game, it still is just a melee VR game

Me and girlfriend were blown away by the simplicity and addictive new forms progression. This is easily a favorite for those less inclined to push more than 2 buttons, not in any particular order.

Some challenges (I'm looking at you, broom witch race challenge) and the lack of a split screen camera feature were more frustrating, but all in all the game shines above it through and through.

I'm not sure we'll pick up NG+ but will def give the 'endless dungeon' another go.

Would happily recommend for a casual co-op game.

Is this game worth 10 euro? (I got it through Humble Bundle)
For me, no, but maybe for you... or one of your kids?

THE GOOD
Progression is ok: Levelups and skill tree advancement are frequent and up to a point(level 30ish) meaningful
and exploring a vault, town and castle is great... the first time

The world looks gorgeous, the messed up mount that looks like a fuzball with eyes genuinly pulled a chuckle after I stopped shooting it realizing its not an enemy

The combat is pretty good: ranged and melee are viable options and combinations are encouraged.

The kid friendly element really is strong here with the narrator explaining global warming, recycling and other concepts eventhough his lines seem to confuse themselves I.E. At one point he'll say "Better keep moving before [Total Dark]" then next it's "Night time hit"

THE BAD
It has no dialogue or story to reasonably put more than 2 hrs into this game
the 16 "core characters" are unmemorable and passthrough rehashed identical dialogues, then you've pretty much beaten the game.

"Magic"/mutant powers are underwheling, I took heavy Intelligence so I would have mana NOT TO DROWN (Yes this 4 super mutant is a ♥♥♥♥ swimmer) but it doesn't dish out any damage
Then you begin to realize every single thing is copy pasted 20 times over, sometimes the color scheme changes, sometimes the buildings are in a different arrangement, but there is very little enjoyable content, even the 4 core bossfights are underwhelming, having harder mini bosses.

The narrator keeps on baffling nonsense which burns out after the first few hrs, the setting to tone it down doesn't do anything even on the minimum setting.

All in all I would say if you're looking for an RPG, pick up Baldur's Gate or Divinity
If you're looking for a gorgeous combat sim, try Kingdom Come Deliverance
If you're into Kung Fu fights, hell pick up literally anything else as this is a bit of a gimmick you get to do every full 3 combos

A silly humble bundle game? I'll try it out for maybe an hr... aaaaand it's 4 am in the morning. A surprisingly addictive 1st person simulator

TurnSignal is knowing disoriented visitors won't punch my window anymore.

Thank you Otter-Co ♥