Crimen – Mercenary Tales reaches PlayStation VR2 later this week.
Developed by Carbon Studio (Hunt Collectively, The Wizards), you might recall Crimen – Mercenary Tales beforehand launched final yr 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 assist options like adaptive triggers or haptic suggestions, Carbon Studio knowledgeable UploadVR that it’ll “attempt to ship them as quickly as doable after launch.”
Coinciding with the PSVR 2 launch, Crimen can even obtain a brand new replace on Quest, Rift, and Steam. Carbon Studio confirmed the Quest 3 model now presents increased pixel density, whereas extra widespread adjustments embrace balancing updates, extra foliage, common bug fixing, and additional optimization.
We had combined ideas in our evaluate final yr. Although we praised Crimen’s humor and “attention-grabbing” premise, we criticized its quick size and fight.
Crimen’s hack-and-slash gameplay has its moments and a number of the tales provide up an honest mini-adventure. Nonetheless, there’s solely surface-level selection to the characters and enemies, with fight quickly turning into tedious, even with the occasional distinctive weapon drops.
Crimen – Mercenary Tales launches on PlayStation VR2 in the present day. Elsewhere, it is out now on Quest, Pico, Rift, and Steam.
