DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition Reviews

This game has criminally few reviews. We don't have many narrative heavy VR experiences which are of substantial length like this is. It's basically like a visual novel in VR, but there's enough basic interactivity and walking around to make it more than like watching an on rails movie from somebody's PoV. But they're largely pretty basic, though just enough to get some engagement such as the menu navigation. If you buy this game, you better be here largely for the story telling experience and feeling like you're a character inside the world. It's very light on gameplay, but there are some puzzles you need to solve and a few key moments where you have to present your investigation evidence sort of like a very watered down Phoenix Wright trial. If you're here for any other reason and expecting high quality gameplay, you will be disappointed. This game isn't for everyone, but if you're into this kind of stuff, like me, you'll love it. Graphically, while the character models look quite good for the style its going for, it's not winning any awards for graphics. But, thanks to the stylized anime look, the simpler graphics actually end up not feeling bad and don't feel as distracting as some other, more realistic games which use the Quest as a basis. If you like the art style, you should find it easy to get immersed in the experience. Without any spoilers, I do think it fumbles a little in the ending on the story telling, but if you like anime styled story telling or visual novels, this is definitely worth picking up. It tells a pretty compelling narrative across an easy 12-14+ hours if you go hunting around for the story relevant collectibles needed to hit the true ending, but hunting for them can get kind of tedious. If you only want to laser focus on the story without exploring some of the world and exploring optional/extra dialog options, you could probably get it done in 10 hours. Which is still an impressive length for a story driven game like this in VR. There's a lot more I could say and I'll probably come back to edit in a longer, more comprehensive review at some point since this is one of my favorite experiences I've had in VR. But with only 41 reviews at the time of this writing, I had to write at least a little something to add a positive review in the meantime.