Both are interesting to scan: The hallways give a more immediately sense of pathfinding and progression, while the caves are more interesting from a discovery and exploration point of view. That’s it, I guess - at least for now.Įvery now and then, the cramped hallways give space to more open caves. But I had to know if the myths were true.” My wife couldn’t understand my obsession. Scratch: “My friends all told me I was crazy. No call for help would ever reach the surface.” Silence. “Nobody had been as deep as this for thousands of years.” Silence. The text announces itself short, scratchy jingle. There’s no reason why it wouldn’t permanently show every place I’ve scanned or if there is a good reason, ‘because there’s real stone in the way and my brain expects this to not be possible’ isn’t it. It’s already easy to forget that I’m not looking at actual light, but that I’m wearing a VR headset that visualizes the scanner results. As in, when I walk into the small cave and follow the curve to the left, I quickly spot a ghostly outline of the area I just came from in the distance. What also doesn’t help, or I guess it does help in overcoming any claustrophobia, is that the scanner can apparently keep track of the cave layout through walls. I might as well be in actual outer space, for as much as this area is real. It’s dark in here, but oddly, it’s so dark that it’s actually not claustrophobic - I can’t possibly feel trapped when I can’t feel any feelings in relation to this space. I use the LIDAR scanner to make my way through a small, winding cave opposite the tent. In lieu of zooming in on that, though, look at these options! They’ve got a resolution! And a quality filter! And a field-of-view slider! And… and pretty much nothing else! That’s not really how a ‘message of the day’ generally works, but then again, what do I know. “Welcome to Scanner Sombre!” Scanner Sombre has been saying for a month and a half now. Colourful lights with a promise of darkness, gloomy music, Darwinia figuring.
Mechanical, high.)Īlright, I’m immediately digging this opening.
Though it is interesting to note that for the longest time I mentally referred to this game as Scanner Sombra maybe my subconscious is telling me that as much as I think I’ll enjoy a solitary cave dive, I might enjoy it even more with a cast of diverse and colourful fightin’ dads. They’ve got a history of games that I find neat or at the very least interesting, and they’re applying this to a theme that I can see myself literally and figuratively get lost in for a while I don’t want to say that Scanner Sombre was made specifically so I’d review it, but the numbers don’t lie. Plus, Scanner Sombre is developed by Introversion Software, the people behind such big names as Prison Architect, Darwinia, and a personally formative title of mine, Uplink. The theme of exploring dark underground caves through the mechanism of rainbow lights appeals to me, what can I say.
I’ve been eyeballing Scanner Sombre for a handful of weeks now, ever since a random Rock Paper Shotgun news announcement that I since haven’t managed to find again.
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