The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone

This game is great. The story is great. The visuals are great and the gameplay. The mechanics are smooth. We’ve all been disappointed many times with glitchy games or the game is great but the mechanics just don’t work right. This game has none of those problems. this is a great game and I highly recommend it.

**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*** this; game isn't worth it." This was the early days of VR though, so it's somewhat understandable that they wouldn't have everything down. I just watched a video of the ending on YouTube, and am even more grateful I just quit, because it's another cliffhanger ending, with no Ep 3 ever having been made. Being honest though, after this episode...I likely wouldn't have paid-or-played Episode 3.... I really do appreciate the production values of this game series, though!!!