DYSCHRONIA: CHRONOS ALTERNATE Dreaming of anime sheep
ETA 22 FEB / PUB PERP GAMES / DEV MYDEAREST / PLAYERS 1
You’ll have some idea of what to expect from this if you played MyDearest’s Tokyo Chronos and Altdeus: Beyond Chronos on the original PSVR. You play as Special Supervisor Hal Scion, diving into dreams to investigate a murder, with your clue gathering enhanced by the extra fidelity of immersion on the new PSVR hardware.
Using dreams as part of the investigation isn’t new for the residents of Astrum Close, a futuristic city with only a 0.001% crime rate, it’s what makes it possible for the supposed paradise to even exist. And so it’s all the more unusual when Professor Rumford, the city’s founder, is murdered, and an old clock tower suddenly reactivates, ominously counting down.
THUMB DIVE
When you reach out with your left hand and touch an object, it initiates a Memory Dive, allowing you to explore the memories of the object’s owner. Aided by Lily, your navigator robot (who can give you tips if your snooping stalls), you explore not only the crime scenes around objects but the Augmented Dreaming world itself. To cut a long story short, you’ll be rifling through locations in the real world as well as ones within dreams, able to hop through quite different environments at just a touch. Gather enough clues and you can re-enact events to see what really happened. Split across three episodes, Dyschronia brings narrative to the fore with a cinematic mystery that’ll keep you guessing as you try to put the pieces together using your own two hands. You’re not simply solving a murder; the fate of the city hangs in the balance, and as you reveal the reality behind the dreams you explore you may find there’s more to the Augmented Dreaming world than you thought.