The route to the mission objective and deck exit is visible from the start, but exploration is rewarded with extra stem cells and FAB chips. Talking of short-cuts, if you really want to you can bypass a lot of the rooms on each deck. Some of these crates also hold Porter keys that allow you to skip decks that you've already played through, a must-have for repeat playthroughs. The best of these can be found in special challenge rooms dotted around the map that must be beaten in order to unlock a loot crate. There are even schematics of different rarities to be found, which you can then use to craft upgrades for your suit's abilities. What lies beneath is a rather robust Roguelike with masses of room for character customisation and replayability.ĭuring each tour of the ship you'll collect stem cells and FAB chips - FAB chips can be used to purchase items and upgrades from weapon-printing Fabricators, while the stem cells are used to create genetic augmentations for your clones that improve your stealth, health, melee strength and your ability to store Dark Matter - a substance which grants you greater teleport abilities and a room-scanning 'Super Sense'.
#THE PERSISTENCE REVIEW SKIN#
Peel back the sci-fi horror skin of The Persistence and you'll find a much meatier experience than your standard, jump-scare game though.
It works well enough, but the process can feel a bit laborious after a while, especially when each room is often littered with pick-ups. Instead, all interactions, including item gathering, are performed by centering your view on an object for a couple of seconds.
#THE PERSISTENCE REVIEW FREE#
Without the ability to free aim your weapons or reach into the world and touch things, there's a certain disconnect with the game that reduces its believability. Refreshingly, there are a huge amount of comfort settings to fiddle around with so it's easy to tailor the controls to suit your VR skill level, be you a novice or a pro.Įxperienced players will be disappointed by the lack of motion controls, though. Movement in The Persistence is controlled exclusively by the DualShock and it involves a mixture of free-move and teleportation similar to that of DOOM VFR, but at a much slower pace. The ever-changing decks may look imposing on the map screen but they feel a lot smaller once you've fully explored them. Everytime you die, and die you will, you can print off a brand new version of yourself so you can enter the twisting, terrifying maze once again. All over the ship they're printing out unlimited numbers of botched clones, complete with a variety of troublesome and deadly mutations. To top that all off, it turns out the clone printer that gave you your new body is but one of many and the tragic incident has caused the rest to go haywire. Every time you use a teleporter, the modules shuffle about, as things in Roguelikes often do, causing the whole layout of the ship to change.
#THE PERSISTENCE REVIEW SERIES#
This is a series of tasks that's been complicated somewhat by a malfunction of the deck modules. Serena needs your help restarting the ship's stardrive so you can escape the pull of this black hole, but before you can do that you'll have to complete an objective on each of the ship's four main decks. You start the game as a clone of the ship's security officer, Zimri Eder, who's been brought back from the dead by Serena Karim, the ship's engineer and sole survivor of the catastrophe. The Persistence is a first-person Roguelike set onboard a sprawling starship that's been crippled by the effects of an unexpected black hole (don't you just hate those?). You're not just playing the game when this happens, you're living the game and, for the first three to four hours or so, that's exactly how it felt playing The Persistence. Virtual threats can seem all too real because of this and, under the right circumstances, the primal fear they release in you can be all consuming. A strong dose of terror laser-focuses your attention onto the illusion and causes the world outside your visor to melt away.
I've always found good horror games to be the most immersive of all virtual experiences. Stealth, horror and procedural scrambling converge in a thrilling package.
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