You can take different routes on the tracks by diverting them at intersections, get special weapons like shotguns and grenade launchers from boxes, and shoot for a high score. You can even reload the guns by pressing a button or flicking them like those old-school arcade shooters. That is exhilarating much in the same way that games like House of the Dead or CarnEvil were. You are, at all times, equipped with a pistol in each hand to break special marked objects, solve shooting gallery puzzles like switching the train tracks and disarming traps, and fighting off enemy monsters that accost you in your cart. Much like Rush of Blood, Switchback VR is an on-rails shooter on a rollercoaster. As a rollercoaster shooter, it’s intense and the creatures are pretty gory and fun to slay, but as a storytelling vehicle, it’s nonsensical even if you know the narrative so far. Even boss battles that include major antagonists from the Dark Pictures series feel stripped of their narrative impact to simply play out as gimmicked bullet-filled showdowns. However, you hardly ever have any time to register what you’re seeing or why. You’ll be shooting off disgustingly detailed zombies, abominations, and ravenous rats in the rusted underbellies of naval ships inspired by Man of Medan, and then be gunning your way through the intensely creepy abandoned homes and sinister living dolls of Little Hope. This game features a lot of looks back at familiar characters, settings, and scares, but rapid-fire style. The sheer speed of Switchback VR seems to fly in the face of the nature of The Dark Pictures Anthology. Apparently, the character you play in the game had a father that really liked the ride you're being taken on, though it is hard to tell why he would be into a ride that constantly tries to kill him as it retraces the steps of the series in such fast-paced fashion. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR moves fast, and spends very little time doing any kind of explaining, contrary to the choice-driven and contemplative nature of most of the Dark Pictures Anthology. While this game contains some original characters and narrative, it’s hard to say any of it really stuck with me. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is a gathering of bits and pieces of the previous Dark Pictures games, going back as far as Man of Medan, and setting them in an original story playing out on a rollercoaster ride. ![]() While Switchback VR benefits from the better technology of the PS VR2 and presents a somewhat riveting thrill ride, the breakneck-paced retelling of the Dark Pictures games so far and performance issues make it a less than stellar attraction among both the Dark Pictures and PS VR2 menagerie. ![]() ![]() This game attempts to gather the whole first season of The Dark Pictures games into another gunslinging carnival ride. Now, with a season of The Dark Pictures Anthology behind it, it’s trying again with The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR for the PS VR2. Previously, that led to Until Dawn: Rush of Blood on the first PSVR. Every once in a while, Supermassive Games gets a wild hair to take its previous work and roll it up into an on-rails shooter styled as a horror rollercoaster.
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