COGconnected: The Midnight Sanctuary promises an occult horror visual novel experience, but only manages to rise above its basic 3-D graphics and skin-deep reading of Christianity in its final moments.
Noisy Pixel reviews The Midnight Sanctuary on Nintendo Switch from developer Cavyhouse and publisher Unties, available now on Switch, PS4, and PC.
Rob Pitt writes: I’ve played a lot of genres through my PSVR headset, from your common wave-based FPS to the top-down third-person games. However, I never thought I’d actually play a full-on Visual Novel in Virtual Reality! The Midnight Sanctuary is a rather mysterious and haunting story from Cavyhouse and Unties which can be played in both flat and VR mode on your PlayStation 4.
With its mesmerising graphics, creepy soundtrack, brilliant voice acting, and rather interesting art design, The Midnight Sanctuary had me interested from the moment I started playing it a while back, yet I wasn’t truly hooked until the game was updated with PSVR support. Just how can a visual novel work in virtual reality?
From time to time, tinier Japanese publishers bring some truly bizarre games to the West, one of them is The Midnight Sanctuary.
