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The horror game that lacks enough horror...

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Amatakk - Review: The Last Labyrinth (PSVR) 900x29

So in this game the main character is for some reason strapped and chained to a wheel chair and he can’t speak, the only way he communicates is by using a button on his hand that turn on a laser on his head, he is accompanied by a little girl who speaks a fictitious language and the game has no subtitles, it seems the developers wanted to make this game a puzzle were you read into what she’s thinking based on her movements but honestly I don’t see how her interactions give a single clue to any puzzle because it just looks like she’s looking around thinking, now the game started rather simple with pretty easy puzzles but after the first few, I think it was around six puzzles (I lost count) the puzzles got extremely hard, so hard that I haven’t been able to continue, in one puzzle there were some pictures with lasers and in the other one there’s a statue with a tool that measures weight between two objects, (I don’t recall name of the tool) and I can’t understand what to do, the clues each room gives players are so vague that the only way to solve them is pure trial and error until you eventually find it.

 Now regarding the horror, yes there is certain amount of horror in this game because if you get the puzzle wrong both you and the girl die in different ways depending on the trap, and even when you get the puzzle right you still see part of the trap activate making you think you messed up only to be saved in the end, that I kind of liked because it would be boring to not see the trap activate if it was easy to pass it without seeing something. However my problem is that the deaths are rather boring in the sense that they would usually be crushed or fall down a hole, but there is no blood or gore unfortunately. When the girl dies she usually dies disappearing in to something black or is taken off screen and when you die it just fades to black so it makes it feel so fake, the fact that you’re stuck motionless in a chair kind of ruins the experience for me because i would find it much more scary if you could actually move around. Although there was one puzzle that makes me flinch every time. When you lose in this one puzzle a giant snake eats both you and the girl, but since he does it so slow and the snake looks realistic and you even see when he opens his mouth to eat each of you it's quite terrifying and is the only death that makes me flinch or try to close my eyes. 

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The atmosphere is there because of the traps, but the execution is rather poor and I can’t even tell what the story is about, each time you pass a puzzle the two characters just end up in front of a cliff near the ocean and different things happen like in one the girl falls of the cliff and such and then you're back in a dark room with a lamp with something attached to the handle and you have to use the laser for the girl to turn the lamp on to proceed. To be honest at first I was enjoying the game because the puzzles weren't all that difficult, but some were a bit too easy, but then suddenly the difficulty just spiked to near impossible to solve levels unless you spent hours figuring out different possibilities. 

Amatakk - Review: The Last Labyrinth (PSVR) Last-l11

 Bottom-Line: So we are giving the game an average level of recommendation, but to be fair maybe I’m not that good at solving puzzles, there's always that possibility, I'd recommend seeing gameplay before purchasing. Also I forgot to mention everything is done with the headset motion control and 1 button and you can either use a DualShock 4 controller or PS Move controller, it makes zero difference either way.

Pros:

 1.   Good atmosphere.

 2.   Creative puzzles.

3.   Shows parts of the traps even when you've done puzzles correctly.


Cons:

 1.   Poor execution of deaths making them boring to watch and less realistic. 

2.   Huge spike in difficulty that goes from extremely easy to extremely hard. 

3.   No subs or background story.

4.   Very little interaction.

5.   A rare, but major glitch that causes the button on the controller to not charge the energy needed to use the laser essentially glitching glitching the game because without it you cannot proceed.  Not sure what causes it and it only happened once.

6.   No exit button so the only way to go back is to do the puzzle wrong and die.


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Score:  ★★★★★½☆☆☆☆ 5.5/10

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KeAfan7
December 3rd 2019, 2:25 pmKeAfan7
@armerocks Impressive review dude! I appreciate you helping us out by reviewing PSVR titles! king
Splatuna
December 3rd 2019, 7:00 pmSplatuna
Good review!
Kain
December 4th 2019, 12:57 amKain
This sounds intriguing, but the flaws make me leary of taking the plunge and purchasing this game.
armerocks
December 4th 2019, 3:17 pmarmerocks
I would recomend  waiting for a discount. But if want to see gameplay i did 2 broadcast before i got stuck in a puzzle.
DigiDestined
December 9th 2019, 2:56 pmDigiDestined
Nice review @armerocks =)
DigiDestined
December 9th 2019, 2:56 pmDigiDestined
Nice review @armerocks =)
DigiDestined
December 9th 2019, 2:56 pmDigiDestined
Nice review @armerocks =)
Elza
December 11th 2019, 3:43 pmElza
Nice review! Someone might want to clean up the duplicate messages above. Amatakk - Review: The Last Labyrinth (PSVR) 1625187496
Zatchbell
December 15th 2019, 8:45 amZatchbell
This looks intriguing, but I think I'll pass. My backlog is getting out of control.
Splatuna
December 25th 2019, 6:03 pmSplatuna
Great review! Also why hasn't @DigiDestined 's accidental triple post been moderated yet? scratch
Splatuna
December 25th 2019, 6:05 pmSplatuna
Yes I know I already posted, but this triple post still being here is driving me batty. Laughing
Staroceancrazy
December 28th 2019, 10:53 amStaroceancrazy
Awesome review @armerocks Exclamation
Krazyredd
February 23rd 2020, 5:30 pmKrazyredd
Krazy good review!
ToughGamer
February 24th 2020, 10:39 pmToughGamer
Good review.
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