Be Excellent To Each Other

This is top notch. It's a Bond-esque escape-room puzzle game.



It's a seated experience, but gives you telekinesis so you can reach far-away objects. On the Move controller, the thumb button engages telekinesis and the trigger button grips things. With the object gripped, you can use the square/circle/triangle/cross buttons to move it further away, bring it towards you, or make it hang in space when you let go. This is particularly good for clues, which I often end up having fanned out across space above me, which feels like some real Minority Report shit.

It's also pretty funny.

Difficulty: this is a real game, not an "experience" like, say, Job Simulator. You're going to die a lot before you get the puzzles figured out. The puzzles all have logical solutions however and often multiple solutions (Craster and I found different answers to some things.) Each time you die, the mission resets; this is briefly annoying but you get really good at the early puzzles in each mission. (There are speed run challenges with times of a minute or so -- you can blast through pretty fast once you have it memorised. It's a bit Groundhog Day, come to think of it.)

It's £20 on PSN, and a typical play through is 3-4 hours. I've done two of the four missions, and almost cracked the third, and that length sounds about right. Also there's some replayability from various hidden/optional object interactions, and trophies if you find them all.

I like this a lot.

I concur with Rich. It's basically a set of escape rooms, but it's brilliant throughout.

Completed!

First run unlocks commentary, which is interesting (and mercifully brief/punchy -- not at all self indulgent.)

Turns out in the first level you can


I've gone back through and got most, although not yet all, the souvenirs too.