Destination Primus Vita Episode 1: Austin Review for Steam

Destination Primus Vita is a game by Ubisoft veterans at Epsilon Games. The game is a first-person narrative, that focuses heavily on puzzle solving and emotional choices.

Premise:

Destination Primus Vita focuses on six crew members, a mixer of scientists and soldiers. These six crew members are set out on a journey to another plant to retake earths stolen water from a race known as the Shatters. As the crew makes there trip to Primus Vita, the ships AI puts everyone in cryo sleep. As everyone sleeps the ships AI begins a training program that interacts with the crew’s dreams to help prepare them for the mission that lays ahead of them.

Gameplay:

The AI is your guide throughout the game, it walks you through a vast variety of puzzles to help train your brain for the challenges ahead.

Each puzzle has its own pattern for you to work out, whether it is a color combination to work out or just simple text. Puzzles even ranging from a combination of all these items.

The AI doesn’t just focus on your puzzling skills, it also focuses on your emotional well-being as well. You are put through old memories, from events of times spent with your fellow crew members. As you relive these experiences you begin to see things differently, things that you had missed the first time around. You see that the images that you have of others are not as clear as you may have once thought.   

That the moment you open your mind to another’s perspective, the clearer you can see who they really are. These moments that you are reliving allow you the opportunity to better understand your crew. In a way that allows you to see how you can better work together and form stronger bonds. These moments aren’t just meant to help you improve your relationships with your crew but also yourself.  There are memories that your character is exposed to, that will shake your foundation.

Things that you must decide how to deal with, can you move on, and truly let go and accept your decisions, or will you let your fear cripple you. If you are unable to overcome your fears of lose, what hope will you have against the Shatters.

Conclusion:

After playing episode one of Destination Primus Vita I am thoroughly excited for episode two. This is a game that relies strongly on your brain and skills, it’s not your everyday run and gun and hope you get lucky. I strongly recommend playing this game, make sure to get your thinking caps on and set some time aside for in depth puzzles. Because if your not ready to use your brain first over your braun, you just may find yourself out of luck.

8.5/10

Here is the Destination Primus Vita – Episode 1 Release Date Announcement Trailer:

https://youtu.be/TABUvBx_MGs

Destination Primus Vita – Episode 1: Austin is available for PC and Mac via Steam.

Steven Reyes

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I am a lifelong gamer since the days of Atari, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. I find the world of gaming fascinating, it's a place where you can immerse yourself into other worlds and do extraordinary things. As for my profession, I work on independent films as a sound mixer and sound designer. @reyesofsounds on Instagram/Twitter/youtube

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