Final Labyrinth Assessment (PS5 / PSVR2)

Final Labyrinth is a novel escape room expertise, and never in a great way. You are strapped right into a wheelchair with very restricted manoeuvrability. With solely head actions out there to you and a laser pointer hooked up to the center of your brow, you could information a younger lady by way of a labyrinth of puzzles and finally escape this torturous maze.

There is a vary of puzzles to be solved — Simon Says puzzles, Lower the Rope-esque conundrums, reflecting mild with mirrors — the bulk being comparatively easy. Nonetheless, a couple of really feel virtually unimaginable because of the lack of logical options and lack of steering. In a single room, you could get the lady to open and shut a desk drawer 4 instances in a row earlier than she turns into irritated and knocks a vase over — the answer makes no logical sense. In one other, you are confronted with a board recreation that seems to be Doubutsu Shogi, a preferred Japanese recreation much like chess, however with no clarification of this in-game, we have been utterly stumped.

Probably the most tedious factor wasn’t being unable to finish puzzles, however as an alternative not having the ability to do them ourselves. The gimmick of utilizing a laser to information the lady across the room simply does not work. She strikes in what appears like slow-motion, and requires affirmation with a nod or shake of your head for each merchandise interplay. If that wasn’t dangerous sufficient, it generally does not register your head motion, and the lady simply stares blankly at you, the identical approach you may stare at her talking her gobbledegook language.

Your entire recreation may be very brief, lasting about quarter-hour a run, consisting of only a handful of puzzle rooms alongside branching paths earlier than you are offered with one in every of a number of endings. Which means usually you may must repeat paths and redo puzzles you understand the options to only to achieve a single new problem. Must you fail a puzzle, it will activate a torture scene through which each the lady and also you meet an premature demise. All of the torturous scenes are simply as disagreeable as one another and make restarting the already tediously lengthy puzzles even lengthier.

Final Labyrinth fails to supply an pleasurable VR expertise. Except you’re a sadist who takes pleasure in witnessing a bit lady get brutally murdered, we might counsel you give this one a miss.