Last Labyrinth Review (PS5 / PSVR2)

Final Labyrinth is a singular escape room expertise, and never in a great way. You are strapped right into a wheelchair with very restricted manoeuvrability. With solely head actions accessible to you and a laser pointer connected to the center of your brow, you have to information a younger lady by means 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 gentle with mirrors — the bulk being comparatively easy. Nevertheless, just a few really feel nearly unimaginable as a result of lack of logical options and lack of steerage. In a single room, you have to get the lady to open and shut a desk drawer 4 occasions 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 sport that seems to be Doubutsu Shogi, a well-liked Japanese sport just like chess, however with no clarification of this in-game, we had been utterly stumped.

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

The whole sport could be very quick, 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 all a number of endings. Because of this typically you will should repeat paths and redo puzzles you recognize the options to only to succeed in a single new problem. Do you have to fail a puzzle, it will activate a torture scene wherein 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 offer an gratifying VR expertise. Until you’re a sadist who takes pleasure in witnessing somewhat lady get brutally murdered, we might recommend you give this one a miss.