Switchback VR Interview – Bullets, blinks and coaster kinks

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It might have slipped from the day one launch line up, but The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is coming to PlayStation VR 2 later this week, a spiritual successor to the original PSVR’s Until Dawn spin-off Rush of Blood that will send you on another action-horror coaster of a rail shooter.

We visited Supermassive and got to play two levels from the game last week – see and read our Switchback VR preview here – before sitting down with Game Director Alejandro Arque Gallardo to chat about the game’s creation.

TSA – Supermassive had its ups and downs with games on the first PSVR, so was there any kind of trepidation about coming back to VR for PSVR 2?

Alejandro Arque Gallardo – To be honest, no. Sony contacted us to say they have this amazing new device, and I was actually brought in [roughly two years ago] precisely for this! I was a big fan of Rush of Blood – it was the first game I played on PSVR – so when Supermassive asked if I wanted to do a spiritual successor, I was like, “Hell yes, I’m in!”

So for us there was no push back or… fear.

TSA – [laughs] Ironically! And what was that starting point for development? I’d assume you went back, looked at what did and didn’t work seven years ago.

Alejandro – Yeah. We started in that place where we knew a lot of people loved [Rush of Blood], and the whole team were big fans as well. We just wanted to do justice to what the original team made and then to build on top of that. As soon as we knew the features of the PSVR 2, it was how can we bring this to a different level?

We did a few brainstorming sessions about how we can make it a gameplay feature with the blinking, how can we integrate it so it’s all just one thing. That’s how we started.

TSA – One of the real strength of VR is how