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4.0Dying: Reborn is a textbook example on how to set up the groundwork for an 'Escape Room' experience, but it largely feels unfinished and content is repeated in order to fill in those gaps.
DYING: Reborn PSVR
Oasis Games · Feb 28, 2017
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DYING: Reborn VR features an abridged version of the PS4™/'PS Vita' version with 3 chapters.
Three Chapters in a twisted story featuring Mathew, the main character who went out to look for his missing sister, only to find himself waking up in a dilapidated and eerie hotel with seemingly no way out.
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- Hey Poor Player4.0It’s hard to give Dying: Reborn a favorable review because it doesn’t feel like a finished product. With horrid voice acting, several graphical issues, and a story with no real conclusion, Dying: Reborn feels like a game that was rushed to the Playstation Store way too soon. While it does offer some real thought-provoking puzzles, the overall package should be locked in an escape room that’s impossible to get out of.
- COGconnected1.5There was a real opportunity for DYING: Reborn to shine on virtual reality, but the end result feels like a cruel joke. Visually it looks like a poor imitation of itself, as lighting and image quality pale in comparison to the regular version, and the gameplay isn’t enhanced in the slightest. Throw in the fact that it just ends before any of the plot gets explained, and you have one of the biggest wastes of money on the system.
- TechRaptor3.0While I think Dying: Reborn VR tried some cool puzzles, there was too much wrong with the game for me to suggest it. Most of the puzzles either aren’t very good or make no sense, the story just stops, the audio is a total mess, and the game has a reliance on hunting for tiny objects that are difficult to see. Maybe it’s not worth saving all things that are dying.
- Push Square3.0On a system bursting with great horror games, you can safely side-step Dying: Reborn. While we appreciate the attempt, the production values just aren't in place to create the tension that's intended here, and even though there are a couple of decent puzzles on display, there's not enough meat on this murder mystery's bones to make it worth the price of admission.
- GameSpew4.0Ultimately, Dying: Reborn is a halfway competent puzzler, but a failure as a horror game. Even when I reached the final level and was rewarded with the “shock ending”, I wasn’t entirely sure what was going on. Nor was it was putting up with all the bad voice acting just to solve a few puzzles. The game’s conclusion – itself something of a cliffhanger – promised that the “trials are far from over”, but I won’t be holding my breath for a sequel. Even if you’re a hardcore puzzle fan, there are far superior and more reasonably priced puzzlers around. It’s best to let this one swim on by.
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