PlayStation VR is getting a fascinating 2D action game
Pop-Up Pilgrims is a PlayStation VR exclusive from Dakko Dakko, the studio that previously made such offbeat gems as Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails, The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character and Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims (if experience has taught this studio anything, Pop-Up Pilgrims suggests it's how to craft a snappier name for its efforts).
"We're a 2D-focussed studio," Dakko Dakko's Rhodri Broadbent says of how we decided to pursue such a strange concept. "When we first saw VR we were a bit unsure, but then when I tried it we took one of our games and put it in a 3D space wrapped around you, so could look at anywhere in the stage at any one time, and that was cool enough. And then we thought what if we layered it back - so we put three instances of the game and you jumped between them and you controlled the action in between, and it was fun. We threw this prototype out and it was basically this 2D platform game with multiple layers of platforms in 3D."
Pop-Up Pilgrims doesn't deviate too far from that original prototype, and it feels ostensibly like an extension of Dakko Dakko's earlier work; something entirely original yet something that also draws upon Broadbent's impeccable taste in games. There have been traces of Treasure and Nintendo in Dakko Dakko's previous work, and here you can see a little Chu Chu Rocket as you lay down markers that help guide your pilgrims to safety.
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