Последние обзоры Xavier: Renegade Angel

One person painted the Mona Lisa. But also one person made Vertigo 2. If you REALLY think about it, one of these is wildly more impressive than the other.

Had been waiting on this sequel for 3 + years since Vertigo: Remastered helped me learn what PCVR could really be (in the ancient pre-HL:A era) and this sequel is absolute molten butter. It takes everything the first game did well and then V2 explodes it all into something somehow even more incredible. Writing + level design + environments + most of the Voice Acting are top shelf (but I'm still not sure why Brian looks nearly 70 but sounds like he's 30 ?

If you own a headset, you simply cannot sleep on this and I'm already counting down the half decade until Vertigo 3 drops.

With ever increasing frequency, PC gaming is summed up by the simple logic of YMMV when it comes to the performance of pretty much any game these days (especially the ports). As someone who was initially spooked by the Questification of this game, I wanted to do my part to spread the gospel that this game completely kicks ass and is a decided improvement on Chapter 1. As others have said, it's more of a pricey DLC than a proper sequel but when it comes to getting another couple dozen hours with one of my favorite VR games, a direct continuation of Chapter 1 is my personal preference.

They doubled the # of crafting tables, expanded The Resting Place to the degree where now there's a slice of prime real estate to live in as compared to Chapter 1's "mattress stuffed into the back of a bus" approach. I generally dislike crafting in games and S&S remains the only series that has ever made it genuinely tolerable.

Performance was a generally even 120 fps for me with a 3080 + 5850X3D. A handful of 60 fps dips but none of the nasty stutters that some others have reported. Graphics do not look Quest-y to me and imo look unchanged from Chapter 1 but to be fair, the art style of the game has always been a bit Questified in the first place. Sometimes that's unfortunate but it doesn't bother me at all with this series. Chapter 2 looks no better or worse than Chapter 1, just more of the same and I have no problem with that.

Being able to use my compiled resources from Chapter 1's 25 hour save was a really nice touch and it was slick to walk back into the bus and see my wall of weapons from the last time I played the first game. Starting the upgrade tables at Ch 5 really helped out too.

If you loved chapter 1 then you'll love chapter 2, especially if your PC doesn't get the stuttering plague that mine thankfully avoided and will hopefully be fixed for all soon.

You know it's a Puppet Combo game when you walk in the back door of a house and murder everyone inside while potentially dressed a giant baby in denim overalls.

And the ending is perfect. Just totally perfect. You could just feel that the tree was not to be trusted.

ARK-ADE is one of the slicker VR titles I've played and it's a quality entry for anyone that likes trippy shooters. They've nailed that over-the-top 80s arcade vibe in a way that both rules and has been surprisingly under-represented in VR as a whole. The devs clearly love their game and it shows. This one should have 10x as many positive reviews so I wanted to do my part to make that happen.

This is a beautifully weird cough-syrup-overdose of a well optimized VR game that manages to spook and soothe at the same time. Anyone who loves impossible architecture and dread will love the combination found here. I have whatever the opposite of megalophobia is (as noted by the developer in the games notes) so this game did a lot for me as I craned my neck in order to see the impossibly tall structures flying by at 120 fps.

And to its credit, just when this game seemed to be a trippy alien geography walking simulator, it throws a curveball at the end that will probably haunt my dreams for the foreseeable future. There's also a decent physics engine in here which is not unheard of with UE4 games but clearly the developer took some time to make sure things felt right.

And even though the game states that Index users running the VR beta will crash, I never saw that happen (and am running an Index with the Steam VR beta always active). My controls were mapped correctly and it never dropped from 120 fps and definitely never crashed, so maybe those problems have been resolved in the numerous post-launch updates.

I'd love to play the last 10 minutes again for the first time, holy *$(#

I foolishly alt-tabbed on night 9 or 10 without pausing and my children were eaten by the disfigured visage of my freak miscarriage of a 3rd child who is out for blood after I locked his ass in a broom closet for the last few years. Needless to say, this brought their well-being % down to a tight zero, which is a shame since it had been in the high 80s the night before. This makes sense though as at that point, they were decidedly more alive.

The final night requires you to slaughter your freak 3rd child (or maybe that's just what the pills make him look like?) while the laughing ghost of your suicided husband stalks the apartment waiting to kill you. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, boy do I have a game for you.

Seriously, Bethesda is the one that publishes the best AA title of recent memory? Consider my ass shook. Or maybe they're just trying to make up for Youngblood. I already loved Tango for The Evil Within 2 and Ghostwire: Tokyo but this is an absolute curveball. It's like someone took the more creative side of the early 00s and decided to make a perfectly untouchable little game around it. The story is workable, it's just that the base mechanics are absolute honey for anyone that loves music and bright pretty colors so...everyone?

If Bethesda paid for this game to get made just to warm us up to them before the release of Starfield, then they're nailing it. Tango remains bulletproof. A thing of beauty.

I've never been more unsettled for $4.99 in my entire life. The majesty of Grandpa's proboscis with its resplendent gyrations are also now burned inside my brain as well, and that's honestly not something I was planning on when I first loaded up the game.

This game is heavy and wrong but incredibly well written and much deeper than I initially gave it credit for.

Everything just feels WRONG in this game. That is the true definition of horror.

The further you stray from the path, the more wrong it gets.

This game is a better Dead Space 3 than Dead Space 3 and deserves a positive review for that reason alone.

edit: ok well it starts strong and ends on a more neutral hype level. Cool game but not quite mindblowing enough to deprive the player of an actual ending and get away with it. The fact that the game CTD every 30 minutes or so didn't help much. Easily one of the prettiest games I've ever played though. When the ending DLC goes 75% off during the 2024 Winter Sale, I'll buy it then.