Vertical Robotic has delivered a stellar follow-up to its 2018 puzzler, Crimson Matter. Getting into the footwear 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 undoubtedly crafted one of the vital visually spectacular VR video games to this point. Whereas the graphical constancy is extraordinary, the artwork course actually seals the deal. Soviet structure may be very distinctive and the sport lovingly affords loads of brutalist design, with the occasional sprinkle of post-modernism, making for a title with a really robust visible identification. Amid these environments, the sport gives many interactable objects, which is each a blessing and a curse.

On the optimistic aspect, lots of these things are price searching for out, as almost every little thing within the sport could be scanned. And the sport hides lots of its funniest jokes in these entries, so discover as a lot as you may. Nevertheless, this merchandise density makes it more durable 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 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 concern is merchandise manipulation. You could have two controllers with grippers on them to choose issues up on the earth, however there may be an inconsistency with the physics. Generally, grabbing an object is trivial, however different instances 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 drawback. The identical goes for utilizing telekinesis to succeed in objects, because the lasso-like tether to seize objects randomly fails to work.

In the end, 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.