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[SvennoJ]

Tonight I took the time to play Here they lie.

Positives:
Great place to explore. I don't know if it's intentional (probably) yet everything feels just a tad small, narrow passage ways, low ceilings, giving it a it of a claustrophobic feel. Getting cuaght by the demons is really horrifying, mostly due to the violent shaking of your view point lol. And the sudden burst of color, mostly red. I managed to get away once so it is possible to escape. If you die you end up in red lake with your previous souls standing around, then a hallway re-assembles around you and you enter back into the level through a door. Pretty neat.
Gameplay is pretty standard walking simulator so far, pick up documents, photographs, ringing phones to read/hear bits of story or random musings while trying to find/follow someone. Nothing new, yet interesting bread crumbs anyway.
The surroundings are well made, great level design, immersion is great as well as long as you don't turn...

Negatives:
Worst control scheme yet. You have the choice between pie chart turning, which fades out the screen while turning you too little or too much, totally immersion breaking. Or you can have smoooth turning, however that's not much better as it practically blinds you anyway.

That's what happens every time you touch the right analog stick to turn... Very distracting. Please stop trying to combat motion sickness I don't have, this solution is tiring on my eyes with the on/off tunnel vision all the time.
Walking straight and looking around sucks too. Instead of walking in a straight line while looking to the right and left like you do in real life, the game always goes in the direction you're looking in like a 3rd person game. That feels very off to me. I would normally compensate with strafing yet strafing speed is severely gimped in the game which means you suddenly slow down to a crawl. I would rather have it turn the way you're looking as in RIGS, or not at all. If I'm sitting straight while looking right, I still expect to move the way my body is pointing.
And there is the black level issue again, highlighting the screendoor to further break immersion. I actually started to think it was an inherent problem with the headset since changing the gamma in the options didn't help a bit. So I fired up a night race in DC VR, nope headset is fine, mountains are a prefect black outline against a dark (still visible) sky. Dash board is black with dials lit up, no screendoor problems at all. Same in Thumper, look away to the right or left, perfect black. Hopefully the second wave of VR games gets this black level issue sorted out.

I do want to explore the rest of the game. Yet I wish they had spend more time on better textures than thinking up counter productive control schemes.



Btw some concerns about the durability of the headset. I'm using it about 3 hours a day on average and the lenses are getting quite a bit of wear on them already. I always put them away safely and am very careful while putting them on and taking the off, however there is a scratch now on the left lens from my glasses hitting them and scratches on the right lens from cleaning. I've always cleaned them with the provided cleaning cloth yet perhaps some dust or something on it made a few scratches.
They're not getting all the way clean anymore either. Sony advises against using water or any cleaning fluid yet you can only smear out eyebrow oils so many times before a layer starts forming on the lenses.
Actually while wearing them the damage isn't really noticeable. It looks a lot worse while holding them sideways with the light coming from the display inside. The dirt on my glasses is more pronounced, which are just as hard to keep clean. (You tend to block it out)

Still I'm kinda bummed to find out that the lenses are not replaceable, doesn't look like it in the teardown.


Next gen VR headsets need to take a closer look at how to protect the lenses, or provide an easy way to replace them. My own glasses have $100 worth of protective, anti glare, anti dirt treatments and still need to be replaced every 2 to 4 years. Even better would be adjustable focus so I don't need to wear glasses in them at all.