The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
Cloudhead Games Ltd. · 2017 · Adventure, Indie, Casual, VR, Story Rich
PC
Very Positive83% · 38286Metacritic
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About The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series. The Gallery is a puzzle exploration game series built for virtual reality and inspired by the mystery of dark 80's fantasy adventure films.
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone™
After following your sister Elsie to the world of Ember, you discover the remnants of a destroyed civilization, torn apart by two siblings and their individual quests for power. Along the way you meet a mountainous ally who, like you, is looking for their other half. Using the Gauntlet, a mysterious new power capable of manipulating energy, you must unravel the history of this forgotten place, and reveal the true intentions of the dark figure who sent you here. Continue your epic journey through the Starseed to the distant planet of Ember, in this highly-anticipated sequel to Call of the Starseed, the VR adventure that started it all.- Unravel the dark past of a forgotten world inspired by classic 80’s fantasy, including Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal
- Control impossible technologies with The Gauntlet, a mysterious relic imbued with telekinetic power
- Unlock history with a world of new puzzles designed to take full advantage of the physicality and precision hand-tracking only possible with virtual reality
- Come face-to-face with a mountainous ally and bizarre alien creatures in stunning roomscale presence
- Experience the best in VR sound with captivating spatial audio and a brand new Original Soundtrack by award-winning composer Jeremy Soule
- Immerse yourself in a lovingly polished world of fantasy; with multiple hours of gameplay, story, and wonder in this elaborate sequel
- Experimental locomotion modes allow users to uniquely tailor their VR journey
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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This was a very interesting story based exploration game with puzzles along the way. I found the story interesting enough but the main impetus for me to keep moving forward was to see the new areas they came up with and the interesting puzzles associated with them. The one negative of the game to me was your sister's dialogue in the game. It is way too campy and distracts from the overall experience of the game in my opinion. It reads like the cliche, annoying Millennial (full disclosure, I am a Millennial) humor that has been so overdone by every modern day Marvel superhero movie at this point. Storywriters, it is okay for your story to take itself seriously. Not everything needs to have comedic relief in it.
This game has some interesting mechanics, especially for it's time. But overall, has not stood the test of time. The locomotion is severely dated. I got a ways into the game, but reached a time gated puzzle that just didn't seem possible with my hardware. I never got even halfway to putting all the gears in place for the final gear puzzle. I tried over and over again... but just couldn't enjoy the game beyond that point. Overall I think the game should be made free at this point if it has been abandoned to the ages. Until then, save your coin.
Very well made. Great world building and interesting story. Puzzles are relatively straightforward. Worked well on my HP Reverb G2.
love the story
**Review Update: I appreciated getting a response from the developer, and what they pointed out was very valid. While I didn't enjoy this episode as much as the first, my final "frustrations" stemmed from a game that was designed for the now-defunct Vive "wand" controllers. So, I'm changing my review to "recommended", with the caveat that people who purchase should perhaps expect some slight control jank due to this being an older title. /update Overall, there is still very few VR games that can match the production values of The Gallery Ep 1 and 2. For that, I very much appreciate them -- and especially how well they hold up in Quality. That being said...I didn't enjoy this Episode. There's a lot of backtracking and -- especially near the end of the game -- the puzzles fail horribly, based on the VR mechanics they are trying to execute not working well enough, and becoming a practice of tedium and punishing trial-and-error, hoping the systems 'work'. **The 2x Organ Puzzles and the very LAST puzzle (of which I gave up and will never finish) truly broke down. There's only about 2-3 games I'd committed to finishing -- ever in my life -- that became so tedious that I said, "F…
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