Started the game on the PSVR2 tonight, played for about half an hour. Did a few quick puzzles and saw a few of the live action turned 3D scenes.
I think it looks like it should be a very fun puzzle game that doesn't hold your hand. I like that you can explore and find things in the mansion at your own pace, and the VR elements seem to be plentiful and work fairly well. I also like the lantern that shows the past a lot, they did a great job allowing you to see different things in the paintings, even the furniture and objects around the mansion. It's nice and adds depth to the puzzle allowing you to see the past for clues to the present's puzzles.
The main things I noticed I was not so keen on are the grays. If you pause the game with the start button you are presented with this incredible dark, black background with almost HDR bright, vivid colors, it's perfect. But exit the pause menu and back to the game and it's like you lose 40 points off the blacks in the color scale, instead of getting 0-255 or whatever you now are in the 40-255 range. It's too bad.
I wish you could optionally adjust it, it just feels cheap to me. Especially on the PSVR2 with the OLED blacks, everything looking a mild gray at best. Hopefully something changes eventually or they patch it. Or I might just lower the brighness from ~85 to below 50. I already dropped it to under 75% which helped, but I think I need to go more.
Other minor nitpicks, the turning speed doesn't go high enough for my liking, but it's fine, and the audio quality is a bit compressed sounding, but perhaps that's just the best they can do with the source material. Overall I have high hopes it'll be a fun cheesy experience, full of corny FMV and hard puzzles. Perfect and exactly what I wanted, but still some part of me is thinking how much better it would look with a black levels patch.
