Visionarium 2 - The Descent

Short. Sweet.

This is hands down the most psychedelic experience you can get in VR without taking illegal drugs. I already have played a few "experience" songs in "Synth Riders" (like "Legends never die" or Muse's "Algorithm") and tried several expierences in "Liminal VR", but nothing comes close to this. Some of the artworks shown in "Visionarium 2" are really oustanding and truly beautiful. As there is not much to interact with during the journey, you can spend your time with creating fancy particle effects or lighting your enviroment with blue and red "lamps" with the triggers of your controllers, which makes some of the structures appear even more psychedelic. You can also mute the soundtrack of the trip in the menu by activating the microphone of your headset and if you say something then, the game will replay it for you (it can be an interesting experience to hear your own voice like others hear it). "Visionarium 2" impressively shows what incredible experiences VR is able to offer. If there ever should be a "Visionarium 3" - count me in!

Darker than the first one, but a great sequel nonetheless.

It's a really mesmerising experience and a great piece of psychedelic art to add to the VR collection. Why aren't there more people exploring the trippier side of VR? Please buy this to support this kind of stuff, I want to see more of it. VR seems to have been taken over by the mainstream - bring back the experimental days!

It feels a bit more ambitious, while also being more grounded to our reality, than the first one - tho' no custom-music. I experienced it with the mute-soundtrack option and playing my favoured tracks on an external player. V2 still kept the little speeches, which are a little 'on-the-nose' philosophically-speaking. Basic new ageisms. But they're mercifully short. We're here for the graphical psychedelic trip, and this has some fine stuff, including one funny dancefloor scene! V2 isn't quite as psychedelically far-out as the original, not just because of the more grounded 'real-life' scenes, also because the new stuff wasn't wholly original: there's the blue folk from Avatar, there's mishmash of 2001's Star-Portal and Star Trek's V'Ger corridor, plus the return of snake-like entities. Very enjoyable, mind. One scene near the end was interesting: a narrow fluidy world where it felt like we had to find a way out. The mechanics have the usual coloured-lines via button-press, and also add some red/blue colour-beams which you can shine on most objects. They're not that inspiring to use, just nice to have. I for one like these kind of trips for dancing to...a quasi-workout even. It's good stuff for those with psychonautal tastes. If there will be a V3 and there's a mood for more narrative & interactivity, I'd suggest some kind of story of a normal guy in the real world drinking a 'mushroom tea' and falling into a deep trip, with the narrative being he has to find a way out. Mechanically there might be some freedom of movement, and instead of shooting pretty lines for purely aesthetic reasons, the player could be shooting obstacles out of the way (a sort of psychedelic puzzle shooter). Lots of potential if the mood is there, the artistry and imagery of both Visionariums is pretty great. Would be cool to see it host a more interactive experience.

It is a great psychedelic experience. Thank you.

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