#The persistence enhanced review Pc#

Encounters like the one during the completion of the third objective, where you’re being swarmed by waves of enemies, feel completely antithetical to the philosophy of game. But later one, some of these enemy types feel like they’re merely there because they’re “obligatory” in a videogame, like the brute, but without having an actual place in the game world. When you first start the game, a lot of emphasis is put on the slow-burn horror nature and stealth, as you slowly creep through the ship, dispatching or evading enemies. But here, I feel the game relies a bit too much on grinding to become stronger so that you can overcome the roadblock ahead instead of natural progression and thus artificially prolonging the game’s play time.Īnother issue I had with these encounters, is how out of place they sometimes felt. This whole process of dying and learning the challenges ahead is inherent to the genre. You will frequently die, either because you aren’t strong enough or because you are unfamiliar with the challenges ahead. The game puts up several roadblocks along the way however, that make this adventure more difficult that it needs to be. To reach each objective, you’ll have to navigate yourself through a few rooms and hallways. Each floor has a specific task you must complete in order to be able to safely return home. In itself, The Persistence isn’t an overly long adventure as it basically asks you to make your way through four floors of the ship.

Only for it to go downhill from here after a while. Certainly the opening hours of the game are brimming with potential, as you want to learn what happened to the ship, and make the setting and nerve-wreaking horror atmosphere shine. I must admit that I enjoyed the way the rogue-lite nature of the game is incorporated into the story, like Housemarque did with Returnal. And since we’re playing a rogue-lite game, the lay-out of the ship of course changes every time you wake up from the printing machine. There are some permanent upgrades you can also acquire by collecting Stem Cells, credits and schematics that allow you to create improvements of the basic gear you start with. Each run, you’ll have to reacquire weapons and gadgets that might help you along the way. As every time you die, which will happen a lot, a new you gets printed and you get a new chance to complete your mission. And here’s is where the roguelite nature of the game comes in effect. There’s another catch though: you are also a clone, imprinted with the conscience of Zimri. There’s one problem though, one of the clone printers has become defective and is printing horrific and murderous aberrations that are now roaming the ship. As Zimri, you’re tasked with restarting the ship’s systems and plan its course back to Earth. Due to an anomaly, the ship is stranded, malfunctioning an slowly being pulled towards a black hole. In The Persistence you play as Zimri Eder, a security officer aboard “The Persistence”, a deep space colony starship in the year 2521.

#The persistence enhanced review Pc#

Now, the game makes its debut on and PlayStation 5 with a new enhanced version, which is also available for PC and will soon make its way towards Xbox X|S. The initial success allowed developer Firesprite to port the game to PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, while also offering a non-VR version for PlayStation 4. The game turned quite a few heads back then with its roguelite horror gameplay where you had to survive on a doomed space ship.

The Persistence was originally released in 2018 for the PlayStation VR.