Oh! Sorry, there is no ‘Excellent Use of VR’ category, that was a glitch and I’ve removed it! Thanks for pointing that out 🙂
Well, it knocks it out of the park for what it is, but at the same time it doesn’t break that much new ground, and it doesn’t raise the bar for VR games in general, etc. So it’s a great game, and perfectly satisfying for fans of the franchise, but it is still, a franchise entry and is being judged on that metric. Having said all that, I’m the editor, not Doc Neale, who reviewed it, so perhaps his reasoning might differ, but knowing him and knowing how we score games, I’d wager I’m not far off.

That’s fine, the written review just seemed beyond “good” to me, and your individual category ratings perfectly average to 7 with that “Excellent use of VR” zero appended (8.4 without) so I was thinking it was an average.

If knocking it out of the park is 7, what’s 8 and 9?

Edit: P.S. Just clarifying that I’ve only played the first Expect You To Die and wouldn’t say 7 is necessarily a bad score for that — just saw this and mistook it for a website bug. (Was its “Excellent use of VR” rating really supposed to be 0/10 though?)

Also if you loved Obra Dinn I highly recommend The Case of the Golden Idol.

For us, 7/10 is a good score 🙂 You’re probably just used to reviewers whose scoring system goes from 6-10 😉