Budget Cuts Ultimate PSVR 2 Review

Throughout your escapade, you’ll encounter robot co-workers with amusing dialogues, frequently expressing their unwavering passion for their roles within the company. Furthermore, the sequel introduces a delightful addition in the form of a robot news reporter, often found on TVs scattered throughout the environments, delivering witty reports, largely about events that you were involved in.

As you may have already gathered, both games primarily fall under the stealth genre. Within the bustling office environment filled with diligent robots engrossed in their tasks, you will face various patrolling, hostile robots that demand cautious evasion or elimination, with the latter often being accompanied by dramatic oil spills and dialogue hinting at their impending demise. You can arm yourself with a pair of scissors, a dart, as well as other lethal objects  to quickly and, hopefully, quietly take down your foes.

The game’s locomotion system is intricately integrated into the gameplay, providing you with the ability to effortlessly teleport between areas using a special translocator gun. This feature proves indispensable in manoeuvring past stealthy obstacles and adversaries, facilitating swift and strategic movement throughout the game’s world, as well as getting to areas that you would otherwise not be able to reach. Whether darting across corridors, traversing through ventilation shafts, or swiftly hiding behind objects to evade patrolling robots, the teleportation mechanic offers you a versatile means of navigating the various challenges that you’ll face.

“In Budget Cuts Ultimate, you have the freedom to accomplish tasks through diverse methods.”

Besides the translocator gun, you have the option to switch between various hand attachment, such as equipping an attachment that allows for interaction with the environment, or a magnifying glass attachment. The magnifying glass proves useful for marking enemies, allowing you to monitor their movements, while the interactive attachment facilitates object interaction, door manipulation, and inventory management.

In both games, you have the freedom to accomplish tasks through diverse methods, whether it’s locating key cards or navigating through ventilation shafts, which means that exploration and a keen eye can often pay off. However, despite the overall excellence of the package, it’s disappointing that the concluding moments of the sequel are marred by frustrations. It’s both perplexing and disappointing that such frustrations were deemed necessary to conclude the game.

Budget Cuts Ultimate encompasses all previously released content from both games, including the Halloween-themed add-on. Additionally, the arcade mode offers an entertaining diversion, challenging you to navigate through five levels while completing tasks and scoring points. You can also lose points based on being spotted by an enemy for example. With its re-playable nature, the arcade mode adds an extra layer of enjoyment to the overall package, making it a worthy addition.

From a visual standpoint, Budget Cuts Ultimate may disappoint some due to its lack of significant upgrades for the PSVR 2. While the visuals remain attractive enough, they may appear somewhat basic and dated, characterized by soft colours and jagged texture work. Additionally, the overall resolution is noticeably lower than what the PSVR 2 is capable of, which makes the presentation all the more disappointing.

Budget Cuts Ultimate PSVR 2 Review Summary:

While Budget Cuts Ultimate may exhibit dated visuals and encounter late-game difficulty spikes, it nonetheless delivers a fantastic package of 10-12 hours of stealthy gameplay and amusing humour. Despite its shortcomings, the game shines brightest when experienced as a whole within this comprehensive package. All in all, Budget Cuts Ultimate offers an enjoyable and memorable coming together of two games.