Perfect Angle VR – Zen edition (Steam VR)

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £3.99
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Puzzle
Input: Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: Perfect Angle ZEN edition is a sequel of the original game Perfect Angle and it has been completely redesigned to offer a unique experience in VR. Challenge your mind with puzzles based on optical illusions. Find the perfect angle by rotating the camera to clean up the chaos

Review: Living near Cardiff in Wales I often find myself walking down to the Cardiff Bay Barrage to see the boats go under the bridge. Why am I telling you this? Because down in Cardiff Bay Barrage is one of the world’s best anamorphic illusions. (You can see that here). This large illusion requires people to look at it in a very exact angle to see the whole image. And that is exactly what you have to do in this game. You have to walk around a crazy looking sculpture that looks like a piece of modern day art and find something hidden within that mess. It could be a ship, race car, cup, just about anything in fact!

While the idea of the game is simple, it of course, isn’t. Given that the VR aspect tends to jump around a lot (it did on our DK2 anyway) and the wire getting in the way all the time this all adds up to make this a very difficult game to play. One you get used to the camera movement you will soon find yourself getting into the swing of the game and you will be crouching, leaning over and tilting your head and body into all sorts of crazy angles.

While the game is fun, in VR it can be a little nauseating. But that is not to say it doesn’t work because it does, just not flawlessly. Which it crazy because this is a game that was born to be played in virtual reality. Having to walk around the puzzle to solve it feels amazing (when the camera is playing ball) and getting that exact angle needed to solve the puzzle is not as easy as it sounds. It’s well worth a download, but be prepared to have a fight on your hands with the camera. Although that might work a lot better on the Vive.