Crimen – Mercenary Tales reaches PlayStation VR2 later this week.
Developed by Carbon Studio (Hunt Collectively, The Wizards), you might recallΒ Crimen – Mercenary TalesΒ beforehand launched final 12 months on most main VR platforms. A VR action-adventure with puzzles and comedian book-style visuals, Crimen’s story takes place throughout eight tales within the seventeenth century, tasking you with exploring castles, pirate ships, historic temples, and extra.
On PlayStation VR2, Crimen consists of enhancements like 4K textures, dynamic shadows, improved lighting, and metallic results on weapons. Whereas it does not help options like adaptive triggers or haptic suggestions, Carbon Studio knowledgeable UploadVR that it’s going to “attempt to ship them as quickly as potential after launch.”
Coinciding with the PSVR 2 launch, Crimen will even obtain a brand new replace on Quest, Rift, and Steam. Carbon Studio confirmed the Quest 3 model now provides larger pixel density, whereas extra widespread adjustments embrace balancing updates, extra foliage, common bug fixing, and additional optimization.
We had blended ideas in our evaluate final 12 months. Although we praised Crimen’s humor and “fascinating” premise, we criticized its brief size and fight.
Crimenβs hack-and-slash gameplay has its moments and a few of the tales supply up an honest mini-adventure. Nevertheless, thereβs solely surface-level selection to the characters and enemies, with fight quickly changing into tedious, even with the occasional distinctive weapon drops.
Crimen – Mercenary Tales launches on PlayStation VR2 at this time. Elsewhere, it is out now on Quest, Pico, Rift, and Steam.
