Hi everybody!
Let’s start by telling that I’m blind, not completely but almost…
I’m a braille reader with no colors, I see something maybe 3 meters far, shapes, ”big lines”, car, house, door, even big signs of supermarkets and such when I’m standing near by…But mostly in the nighttime when the contrasts are strong, you know what I mean.
I play games on PS4. It’s had dot find games that are accessible for my sight, that’s
why I’m so happy I was able to play RE7 completely through actually twice now
without any help from sighted people.
For my sight Resident Evil 7 is as accessible as it gets. I use a PSVR virtual helmet
and enjoy very much the virtual worlds it offers me 
.
Anyway, with PSVR I can take a closer look with all the menus and such so I get them
as big (zoomed) as I need to and in the inventory it tells with a text what the items you
carry are so you don’t meed to recognize them from pictures and such. also (unlike every other game I have tried) the inventory text can be zoomed just by bowing your head and looking closer.
Everything happens in the night time so no disturbing sunlight or bright
light and colors that would be hard for me to watch. Even though
I’m very poor with maps there’s lots of time in the game to walk around and find
things.
All the fights in the game are quite slow and all the enemies make noise
when they come.
I usually have difficulties aiming in games but here I was able
to shoot and use things like flame thrower and grenade launcher with success .
Since the game is full of writings on the walls and documents with codes and such that are
hard for me, I used a walkthrough to help me play the game through…Here is a link to the walkthrough:
http://www.ign.com/wikis/resident-evil-7/Walkthrough
If you enjoy horror films or games, this is something all low sighted
players like me might want to try. Also the game doesn’t need a VR headset
to work and actually the reason I played the game through twice was because
the first time (until the very end) I played using a normal TV. I have tried some other Resident Evils in the past but haven't found them that accessible at all.
Hope this helps someone, I'm a happy camper .
-- Mikko
