Format PS VR Developer From Software Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment ETA November
It says a lot about Hidetaka Miyazaki’s creative clout that he’s famed for creating Dark Souls, but when he comes out with a walking sim about fairies in a traditional British boarding school, you’re all-in to see how it pans out. On the evidence of the half-hour demo we played of Miyazaki-san’s VR fairy simulator Déraciné, it’s going very beautifully indeed.
At a glance, Déraciné looks like a walking sim, though hands-on it actually feels more like an old point-and-click adventure. The segment we play lets us move around a large chunk of the beautiful Victorian-era boarding school, but movement is entirely based around teleporting. This sacrifices some immersion in favour of negating motion sickness, but it also suits the…
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Gamesmaster (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018