Dyschronia Chronos Alternate Dual Edition (v1.0)

The game represents an evolutionary step for VR developer MyDearest. I played MyDearest’s previous title, Altdeus: Beyond Chronos on Quest II, and really enjoyed it for its high-end, living anime presentation. Indeed, if you look at a screenshot for either of these games, they look like screens from an anime film. But when you see these images in 3D, and interact with them, you get a sense of the hard work and artistry that went into creating them. Altdeus was a VR visual novel, a fun tale told in VR with some limited interactions. But Dyschronia takes things much further than its predecessor, feeling more like an adventure title than simply a 3D storybook. While there are still some long story sections filled with conversations, Dyschronia is far more interactive, allowing the player to freely move about environments and interact with characters that live within. There are even a few short stealth sections, showing that MyDearest is stretching its legs a bit and trying new things. In Dyschronia, players take on the role of Hal, a newly graduated detective just passing his final exams and starting on his first day of work. Hal and his fellow citizens live in a dome-covered city, created by Professor Rumford, a technological visionary. Rumford has developed Augmented Dreaming, a computer-assisted state of being, in which all citizens share their thoughts and feelings, making crime a thing of the past. If you feel what everyone is feeling, you aren’t as likely to hit them with a bat. Or let me amend that to “making crime almost a thing of the past”, because on Hal’s first day as a detective, Professor Rumford gets straight up murdered in his apartment. As the city locks down in shock at the crime, the AI that runs the city taps Hal as the best detective to lead the investigation, even though he is brand new. Of course, the AI may or may not be interested in actually solving the crime, as it seems far more invested in simply closing the case and sweeping everything under the rug.