Accessibility review: PRAGMATA – PS5 Pro
After delivering one of the best games of the year with Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom continues its incredible momentum with PRAGMATA, a cinematic sci-fi action adventure set inside a mysterious lunar research station. Mixing third-person shooting, exploration, puzzle solving, and hacking mechanics, the game feels and plays great thanks to its atmosphere, presentation, and unique gameplay systems.
The story is intriguing and, without revealing too much, I can tell you that PRAGMATA delivers a tense and mysterious sci-fi narrative filled with questions, danger, and emotional moments. The abandoned space station setting creates a constant feeling of isolation and suspense, while the characters themselves are surprisingly well written and believable. Combined with strong voice acting, excellent music, and outstanding sound design, the game does a fantastic job pulling players into its world.
The gameplay feels smooth, responsive, and polished. The combat combines shooting with hacking mechanics that keep encounters interesting, but thankfully these never become overly complicated. In addition, the exploration and puzzle-solving are paced nicely, and the game introduces all these systems naturally. On PS5 Pro, the game looks and runs absolutely fantastic, with detailed environments, impressive lighting, and excellent performance throughout.
Alina and I recorded a deep dive accessibility video where we explore the accessibility menus, settings, and gameplay systems currently available in the game.
For those interested to check out the first hour of the story, we also have a video with that.
PRAGMATA includes subtitle customization, speaker names, closed captions, motion sickness settings, visual adjustment options, reticle customization, and several gameplay assists designed to make the experience more approachable. The DualSense implementation is also excellent. Haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and controller speaker integration all add to the immersion, while the sound design itself is easily one of the strongest parts of the experience. Weapons, machinery, environmental ambience, and robotic enemies all sound fantastic!
I would have loved to see more focus on accessibility from the developer, as PRAGMATA unfortunately does not include text-to-speech functionality for menus or navigation assistance to help us find objectives. Because of this, the game is completely unplayable for totally blind individuals like myself, despite its excellent audio presentation.
Regardless of its shortcomings from an accessibility standpoint, PRAGMATA is another strong and memorable release from Capcom. Players who love atmospheric sci-fi games set on abandoned space stations in the style of Dead Space should definitely give this one a try, especially since the story, characters, gameplay, and overall presentation are head and shoulders above many similar games.
Review copy provided by Capcom
Victor Dima
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