These are puzzles, in a way, but I never found that they tested my brain very much, especially since there were only so many things available for me to manipulate in each chapter. You assist cute little Louis LaFleur by manipulating the environment in ways that his diminutive self cannot you might have to lift an automobile onto the road for him to drive, or obtain a key and then pull open a door for him. Ghost Giant is interactive but only to a point.
I understand the “choice” the developers made here in their gameplay mechanic but I just couldn’t shake the weird feeling of being confined as I played.
My reflexes kept pushing me to try and move around, change my point of view, but that was not an option, and that is something I never quite got used to. Frozen GhostĪ less successful aspect, in my opinion, is the way the game plants you, like a tree, in one spot throughout each chapter – you may use your ghost arms to interact with objects, like poke or lift them, but your lower body remains stationery. Despite the fact that everything is created in a bespoke paper cut-out visual aesthetic, the world of Ghost Giant feels wonderfully alive, organic and immersive, and the 3D effect only enhances that impression. The settings change with each “chapter,” but they are always some sort of diorama that you look down upon, complete with miniature houses, farm fields, roads, vegetation and characters, many of whom are living, talking, sleeping or eating inside the little houses and you can even bend down and look inside the windows to see what they’re up to. You play as quite literally a ghostly giant, but a benevolent one who exists to help the young cat/boy protagonist, Louis, do what he needs to do and get where he needs to go as the story unfolds. It certainly offers you immersion into a beautiful world with a magical, fairy tale-like quality, full of fascinating anthropomorphic characters. By this measure, Ghost Giant on PSVR from developers Zoink Games, is a very good game. I imagine virtual reality, at its best, to be a liberating experience – something that allows me to shed the restrictions and confines of my physical reality and see and do things that I would never otherwise experience.
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