It nails that feeling of progression beyond just meeting the goals in the game. Unlocking more, accessing new abilities, and having more and more success each attempt. I’ll not mention it here as it is a bit of a spoiler, but speaking generally I really enjoyed the slow build-up. There’s another major thing to unlock in The Persistence. Having stocked up on the latest death-dealing tools by the end of deck one, starting on deck two with nothing after death wouldn’t be too pleasant. Later in the game, it becomes possible to unlock shortcuts. That you keep fab chips is certainly a good design choice. And while you lose any equipment you’ve fabricated, you do keep any fab chips you’ve collected to make more. These persist, so you keep them even when you die.
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Collect Erebus tokens to unlock and upgrade equipment. Pick up enough stem cells and you can increase abilities like your health and how quiet you can be. As you wander through the creepy corridors, you’ll come across several types of currency. The Persistence isn’t just a horror survival, but it has roguelike elements too. Each new life is a new experience, but it does build on the last. You can learn enemy behaviors, but not where they’ll appear or even what rooms will appear. So every time you die, the rooms reset into a random layout. Of course, it’d be too easy if you could learn what was coming next. With multiple routes and vents that you can sneak through, knowing what you’re avoiding lets you survive longer. Careful use gives you the key information that you need to avoid enemies. You can only use it a couple of times before it needs to recharge though and it only shows so far into the distance – it’s not perfect. This gives an outline of the enemy, even through walls. Speaking of the right equipment, one of your key tools is your scanner. Or try to escape if you feel lucky, but be aware that they can move a lot faster than you. Have a good weapon and you might be able to kill them first. Parry an attack with the right timing and you can get your own in. You come equipped with a shield that will take a couple of hits.
If you do get seen, a game over might soon follow. Most likely it’ll be a mix – frontal combat isn’t really your strength, but sneaking up and taking those sweet stem cells while killing them from behind? That’s how you do it.
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Sneak or murder your way through a series of rooms to get there, activate it, and then go to the next deck. So what do you need to do? In the campaign mode, it’s all about making your way to a point marked on the map to bring systems back online. The game didn’t dwell on it, so neither shall we. Other clone printers are printing non-human bodies – bad news for you as they all seem to want you dead.ĭespite including an impressively grim moment near the start where you have to harvest your own dead body for DNA, there isn’t a huge amount of story in this game. As a mind inhabiting a series of clones, you need to bring the ship back to life. Something happened and you find that the ship is faulty with most people dead. So did this one scare me? How is it in VR? And how did the transition from virtual reality headset to monitor go? Let’s find out. Some time on, they freed the game from virtual reality, also bringing it to non-VR players across a wide spread of platforms. I donned a VR headset and fell in love with surviving through all types of ‘zombies’. It all started at a game expo called EGX. So why is this horror-skeptic playing The Persistence? I know a lot of people love to play these to give themselves nightmares, but not me.
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