Cosmonious High PSVR 2 Review

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Starting at a new school is always a difficult experience for children. Whether it’s the first day of nursery, primary school or secondary school, you’re always one of the smaller fish in a new pond. Things are only more trying if you’re joining class some years later or mid-term, with established cliques and friend groups to figure out as the only outsider. Thankfully, Cosmonious High is about as harmonious, positive and uplifting a school as you could possibly imagine. Its AI has gone completely off the rails, though….

Cosmonious High is the latest game from Owlchemy Labs, a much more ambitious successor to Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator in every way. It’s lost none of the vibrance and colourful graphics, the quirky, playful interactivity or feel-good vibes, though.

This is an inter-galactic school with a handful of different species amongst the student body, with tall Bipids with tentacle hands sprouting from the heads, squat Flan slimes, and brilliantly rendered 2D Trisks that are flat, but with the look of 3D to their internal shading – it’s difficult to describe. The whole game is luridly colourful, like a Saturday morning cartoon that’s been through a neon filter, but it’s remarkably consistent, and nicely in keeping with the rest of Owlchemy’s work.

Even within this alien-filled school, you’re something new altogether: a Prismi. That’s a little Rayman-like character with a large head and floating hands, and as you prepare for the school bus you get to pick out a hat, backpack, glasses, and a few other little incidental customisation bits. You generally won’t see them, but you do have a neat little camera in your backpack for snapping pictures and selfies.

Getting on the bus is where things start to go wrong. It