VR Shop Score – Silver Award
System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £9.29
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing or Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
Description: Wrapped in a mind-bending tale, the gameplay of “MIND” focuses on changing the very weather in order to solve puzzles: the player will cycle between day and night, modify the levels of fog and rain and even travel in time between seasons, changing the environment to advance the gameplay-driven story —indeed, the mechanics are directly related to who the protagonist is, what has happened to him and everything he is doing: a man trapped in his own mind, he must use all the tools at his disposition to escape to reality. Accompanied by the snarky yet heartfelt narration of this comatose patient, the player will guide him through fantastical forests, dark caverns and deceptive worlds of water and ice that directly relate to his emotional state at each point in his journey.
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition is a story of one man’s path to get his daughter back after a tornado hits his town and home. Through a series of dream-like environments, you have to solve all sorts of puzzles to get to the next stage. The controls are fairly easy, but the crazy dream-like scenario makes solving puzzles harder as you don’t work out what to do straight away, it takes time. Personally, I liked this, but I know it will not be to everyone’s tastes.
