I am blowing with my actual mouth, as picked up by the PSVR mic, to gust wind at some birds so they fly away and out of Louis’s path. I am turning a brass crank incongruously sticking out of a cardboard hill to rotate a bridge. I am lifting a car to put on a hill, so it will get started. I am grabbing wilting flowers and pulling them from the farm’s fields. Other characters can’t seem to see you, as you interact with the cardboard objects around you directly or via their suddenly appearing brass knobs, for you to grab with your floaty ghost hands. As a ginormous specter, you begin to help Louis work the farm, deal with obstacles, and continue the story of this particular day in his life. Your relationship with Louis is also built on action. I don’t believe the game picked up on it, but according to the exec from the game’s publisher Thunderful, the game will interpret some of your responses at certain times. Given his ongoing discourse with you, I found myself nodding and waving in response. Louis is a talker, constantly telling you things and asking for things. Once you follow Louis there, the player, as the Ghost Giant or so he names you, begins a relationship with Louis. A few more interactions, and he runs from the forest to the family farm. With the Move’s trigger button you make a pinching gesture and so you grab the rocks out of the way, which shocks him more. Louis freaks out realizing that you are real, and hides behind a large rock.
Pressing the center Move button your hand can take on a pointing gesture and you poke him with your index finger.
He sees you and reacts with surprise, hiding his face from you in fear. The game begins with the anthropomorphic cat Louis crying into a pond, his tears glowing on the surface of the water, the glow collecting into your plump, three-fingered hands. When you begin Zoink Games’s title Ghost Giant, you find yourself in a carefully crafted world of cardboard and paper nailed together into a vibrant world. The GPU demands of VR necessitates the need to turn away from photo realism to another artistic choice.
How game developers approach the graphical limitations of virtual reality can be interesting.
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