Gex Collection

It was fun, surprised how fun the first 2D one was.

I'm continuing Red Matter 2 again. It's the sharpest most stable looking game on PSVR2, native 120 fps, super sampled with eye tracked foveated rendering, you have to really pay attention in the headset to find any visible LOD changes. The lighting is also perfectly color graded to the OLED panels.

Yet it also proves, even the best technical games still need good game play to keep me engaged. I keep getting bored of the slow movement. Running speed is more like regular walking speed in other games while the jet pack (jump) and falling is painfully slow. Manipulating objects never feels right. It shows your hands in game holding on to some weird grabber tool which you use to pick up objects. That only breaks immersion, like trying to do things with boxing gloves on.

But I keep coming back to see what the headset is capable of. The navigation puzzles are all right, not as good as for example firmament but do make use of the extra possibilities VR offers, manipulating things in 3D space, targeting through windows, around a corner. Combat is rather weak though, feels out of place.

Recommended to see what's possible in VR, yet as a game I score it 3/5.

And playing more Lumines Arise. That also shows what the headset is capable of, even better since it supports 10 bit HDR (RM2 is enhanced HDR, missing the specular highlights). Plus the visual effects, sound effects and music are top notch. I suck at the game (rank C player, no fall mode) but it's simply awesome to play.