The Persistence Enhanced is a good title, it does have a lot going for it. What I will say in the defence of the game, you still have the ability to make progression and level up your equipment. Being faced with the tougher sections of the game means repeating a few times. The concerns that the game can be repetitive are hard to ignore. I would put a timescale of about 12 hours to complete the main story and up to about 18 hours if you want to go through and collect everything that the game has to offer. Some runs will inevitably be completely pointless. It is difficult to put a time scale on The Persistence Enhanced, with its changing corridors. With a decent set of headphones, you will experience the fully immersive audio of the game with its steam pipes, fallen electric cables and the moans of the mutated crew. All things considered, being treated to those dark rooms, air ducts and corridors that help make those light metallic shiny surfaced areas all the more welcoming, It isn’t going to break grounds especially compared to the treat of recent PS5 releases. The first thing to remember is at heart the game 3 years old. The enhanced graphics, with the Ray tracing and atmospheric particles. You can see where the VR aspects of the game came into their own, however, it doesn’t look out of place without it. It will be at that reload moment that you inevitably run into some big nasty that wants to kill you. When using your sense ability around every corner until it needs to recharge. The atmosphere that the game gives you adds to the fear factor. The bangs of doors, the explosions and the footsteps of your enemies in surrounding areas. In brief, what I wasn’t prepared for was the noise around the ship.
Credits are used to purchase items and Upgrade tokens are there quite unsurprisingly to upgrade the weapons and items. There are 3 main types of things to keep an eye out for, Stem Cells, Credits and Upgrade Tokens. Using these to upgrade your character and give you an edge over the monsters that stand between you and your goal.ĭivided into decks your first goal is to restore the power to the ship. Hopefully, you will have managed to violently extract spinal fluid from your enemies to increase your stem cell count, or at least found some on your journey. In a style recently seen in Returnal, in the event of your death, you are bought back to life as a clone. The Persistence Enhanced has set aside the VR requirements however, to its credit it has maintained the feel when you move around the environment and interact with objects. To get through this, you will need to harvest the spinal fluid of enemies using the stem cells. This has resulted in all kinds of mutations and nastiness. In a setting that reminded me of the 1997 film ‘ Event Horizon‘ the ship’s cloning machines have gone into overdrive. In addition to this, you are dead along with the rest of The Persistence crew. Playing the role of Security officer Zimri Elder, things are already stacked against you. I jumped at the chance to be thrown into space aboard a stranded ship with no engine, all while currently orbiting a black hole!!
Thank the team at Firesprite for sending the code for Persistence for an honest review of their title. Have you got the spine to survive this nightmare? Yes! you read that right, stem cells are the main requirement for progression within the game. The Persistence Enhanced a stealthy first-person shooter where you need to harvest the stem cells from your opponent’s spine.