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Most recently, TWD Saints and Sinners PSVR2. Dunno if the game played a sick joke on me for killing tutorial guy over and over (he said he would remember) yet my first play attempt almost made me delete the game.

First the VR tutorial is very bare bones boring, nothing like RE8's excellent and even scary 'tutorial' section. Then it shows you in quick succession where everything is stored on your body which you instantly forget again :/ Also no way to bring up a diagram or any help in game where to find the journal, so lots of random groping trying to get the damn journal out to get to the map and objectives. Also if you don't store weapons correctly they fall on the ground. Since you place the axe behind you it's easy to miss and lose your valuable starter equipment.

That combined with the seemingly broken state I started in resulting in no resources to be found. Playing it for the first time I thought it was normal, but soon my weapons broke and I had no resources to make new. Result, death, try to retrieve backpack with ever dwindling max stamina and health (dunno why exactly, had just 2 logs in it and a bottle lol) and set it to story mode going back to camp. Day 3 I go back to the first area for the quest I got on Day 2, quest gone, quest giver gone, area now populated by tons of people with guns that turn hostile as soon as I get close. I try to go for the main objective, retrieve microphone, get into the house climbing up a rain pipe, manage to take out an armed guy in the room and get his weapon. Yet since my stamina and health bar are now so small I can only move at a snail's pace, it doesn't take long to get taken out by all the others walking around the house. Game over, can't recover without any resources.


But I tried again starting on story mode, and this time there are so many resources around my backpack is full one minute after leaving the boat lol. I figured out where the journal actually is (upper right arm) and keep the axe in the backpack so I can grab the journal instead of ending up with the axe half the time. Story mode also depletes stamina much slower so you can actually move at a decent pace instead of crawling along. The side quest worked this time, got more used to retrieving and storing weapons without dropping them or fumbling for 20 seconds while under attack. Trick is not to look, since if you look to where the gun/knife are supposed to be, the game interprets it as you turning, turning the relevant item slots away from you, DOH!

Anyway, ill thought out VR 'immersion' stuff figured out, I'm now enjoying the game play loop. Scavenging materials, upgrading tools, exploring, sneaking around, infiltrating. It is a lot of fun. Bit gruesome, stabbing people in the face is the most efficient way to kill them, or hold them while putting a gun to their head to shoot them in point blank range. Murder simulator taken to a new level lol.