Perception

 PlayStation 4
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6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 27
  3. Negative: 9 out of 27

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  1. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 8, 2017
    7
    Perception
    less is more
    Perception is a 3 hour long first person horror game where you play as a blind woman named Cassie who visits a mansion she keeps seeing in her nightmares... She goes to collect the 4 items she sees… Since you are blind you see using echolocation… At first this seems like just a cool experimental game... And you assume you’re going to just keep echoing to    Perception
    less is more
    Perception is a 3 hour long first person horror game where you play as a blind woman named Cassie who visits a mansion she keeps seeing in her nightmares...
    She goes to collect the 4 items she sees…
    Since you are blind you see using echolocation…
    At first this seems like just a cool experimental game...
    And you assume you’re going to just keep echoing to explore the rooms…
    But quickly you learn this isn’t the case…
    You’ll do a lot of back tracking here... as this is a go to a certain point and collect a certain item kind of game until you get to the credits…
    You can hold down a button to see a doorway or item located in the house and then you have to figure out how to get there…
    And slowly this gets more challenging…
    For starters...
    You can’t just spam the echo button…
    Because while you use your ears to see...
    The house uses its ears to see too…
    Too much noise will attract an enemy moth monster…
    For the majority of this is the only threat...
    the screen will start turning red and you have to find a hiding spot fast…
    This makes exploring this dark mansion even more terrifying…
    The game understands that less is more when it comes to horror..
    It doesn’t flood you with enemies to deal with…
    You only have to deal with one...
    And it comes when there’s too much noise happening…
    This leaves you feeling vulnerable at every moment of the game…
    The challenge also comes in the form the house changing…
    This house has been home to many families... and you have to solve the mystery of all of them…
    Each chapter takes place in the same house... But the house always looks different and offers a different challenge depending on the time period and who lived there...
    All the way back to the 1600s…
    This changes the gameplay up a bit to keep the game interesting as it is insanely repetitive...
    Again it is just figuring out how to get to the right room in the house over and over for 3 hours and listening to dialog and the echoes of this house…
    And I never truly felt like I was exploring the house as practically every door is locked expect for the one you need to go through,
    This is a gift and a cruse because you won’t be wasting your time in rooms you don’t need to go through…
    but a curse because you can just go through a simple route to the right room.. you have to go through a bit of a maze as if being blind wasn’t hard enough…
    Though perception is a bit repetitive, it still offers a terrifying and unique experience worth picking up for horror fans…
    I give perception
    a 7/10    … Expand
  2. inmh
    Mar 12, 2019
    7
    I enjoyed it. It was creepy, had an excellent source of tension with the character being blind (you can't see what's in the distance, after all, and have to rely on phone apps to fill in the gaps).

    That being said, I think I got this for like... $20? And as short as it was and relatively simplistic as it was (the story was OK, not fabulous) that's not something I feel was worth $20.    I enjoyed it. It was creepy, had an excellent source of tension with the character being blind (you can't see what's in the distance, after all, and have to rely on phone apps to fill in the gaps).

    That being said, I think I got this for like... $20? And as short as it was and relatively simplistic as it was (the story was OK, not fabulous) that's not something I feel was worth $20.

    Also, though everywhere I went insisted a patch had fixed the issues back in October 2017, I was still unable to get the "Snoop" trophy: A relative simple trophy acquired by listening to all the messages on Cassie's phone. Which I did.

    Three times.

    In two different playthroughs.    … Expand
  3. Hatefarm
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    Absolute trash. Game was very poorly designed. Scary at first but if you for some reason if you don't follow the exact direction they want you to follow. WHILE YOU ARE BLIND, then the game decides to not work and refuses to continue. Absolutely dreadful. Don't waste your time or money.

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56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 24
  3. Negative: 6 out of 24
  1. GameCritics
    Oct 11, 2017
    55
    By Perception’s conclusion, I’d witnessed several generations of families who’d lived in this mysterious estate, how they meshed together and found Cassie’s link to them. Some were more interesting than others, but Perception ends up dragging on for too long with too little intrigue to carry it through. Had it been half as long and experimented more with the applications of Cassie’s blindness, Perception could’ve been a fascinating experience. What I actually got was the chance to stumble around in the dark for six hours, which is about as enjoyable as it sounds.
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  2. PSX Extreme
    Sep 13, 2017
    80
    Perception has a lot of heart put in to it by the husband and wife team. It really shows in the details in the game. That heart also shows in some parts as being slightly rough around the edges.
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  3. Gamers' Temple
    Aug 21, 2017
    50
    Strip away the game's echolocation feature and you're left with a rather lackluster ghost story adventure game. The path through the game is extremely linear, there's little in the way of interaction, and what puzzles there are in the game are simple and far and few between, For the dark to be scary, you have to believe that there is something lurking in it somewhere, but in Perception the darkness felt about as scary as my bedroom does at night.
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