Loading Human Chapter One - PSVR Review

     Some current PSVR games have wonky controls, compared to what I have come to be used to playing 3D games that aren't VR. I know it can be done, as in the case of Battlezone for PSVR, with it's smooth-as-silk controls, as well as a scheme that is familiar. I realize that a day is coming when 3D VR games will have reached a kind of standard for control when traversing a 3D environment. I look forward to that day.

     That being said, the controls in Loading Human weren't bad enough to make me return the game, and the graphics and strange story were enough to make me play this short "Chapter One" to the end. Not a large feat, but not exactly smooth sailing either. The musical score is mostly a heavy-synthesizer laden New Age kind of groove, I REALLY liked that.

     You begin in an Antarctic research base owned by your 137-year-old father, who, humorously enough, is dying and needs you to venture out to a distant spot in the galaxy and collect a cure for what ails him. This becomes your "mission". There is "training" (essentially 4 mini-games) for this mission. These are the the only real "action" involved. The bulk of the game is problem/puzzle-solving. Along the way you fall in love with the only other human there, Alice. You also must review memories that have missing data that you must reconstruct (something you need to see and play to understand). I will go no further, so as to avoid too much spoilage.

     If this weren't a VR game I assure you it wouldn't be worth playing. Because it IS VR, it becomes interesting, especially to someone looking to "cut their teeth" on the PS VR with something that isn't action-intensive. 

     There is also plenty that I do NOT like about the game. First and foremost it has simple, mundane, tedious tasks that the player must complete. As well, the movement is REEEEAAALLLY SLOOOOOOOW. Turning from side-to-side can be a pain, but it is easy to turn 90 or 180 degrees using the right stick. Not present is the familiar right stick action found in 3D games that aren't VR, as I said before. 

     But little Alice is cute, and you get to kiss her (yes, you DO), and walk in on her taking a bath, so it's not all bad. Strangely enough, I do believe I will pick up Chapter Two at some point down the road after it becomes available. I am, after all, a tiny bit curious where this goes from here. The ending was powerful, in my opinion, and presented hope. Maybe the team at Untold Games will cool-up the controls a bit, but as long as they tell a story as interesting as this one, I will be back.  

     For now I give Loading Human Chapter One a 6/10.