{"id":4457,"date":"2025-10-24T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:41:10","slug":"video-game-perfect-vermin-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/video-game-perfect-vermin-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Perfect Vermin (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/shared.fastly.steamstatic.com\/store_item_assets\/steam\/apps\/1416130\/header.jpg?t=1708109979\" alt=\"Perfect Vermin\" width=\"428\" height=\"200\" \/>Perfect Vermin<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2020<br \/>Rating: M<br \/>Time Played: 30 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, you just want to smash up an empty office with a sledgehammer. <em>Perfect Vermin<\/em> scratches that itch initially, but the longer you play, the more bizarre and horrific it gets. I&#8217;ve played plenty of first-person games before, but the unique way this one evolves with each iteration of the same level had me feeling nauseous for more reasons than just motion sickness. I appreciate its innovation, but I probably wouldn&#8217;t have played it if it wasn&#8217;t free and short.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, the short length of this game is one of its saving graces. I don&#8217;t know if I could play it for much longer than the main story. I&#8217;m sure those who don&#8217;t suffer from motion sickness like I occasionally do won&#8217;t have an issue with this game, but the combined aspects of the first-person controls and the rush of the ticking clock combined in a way that made it uncomfortable for me to play for very long. I was so focused on playing that I became nauseous from the camera whipping around so much as I frantically searched the office for the last enemy to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, I think I would still recommend people give this game a try. After all, it is short, but its creative ways of re-imagining the same space and goals for the level were what kept me playing through my nausea, just to see what new idea would be next. And it&#8217;s not like the horror is too bad considering the graphics are equitable to the 64-bit era of video games. Still, if you&#8217;re looking for something interesting to kill 30 minutes (and not 30 dollars), this at least has the cathartic ability to smash up an office with a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n<p>A unique first-person hide and seek game with some issues for people with motion sickness, I give <em>Perfect Vermin<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> 1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect VerminYear: 2020Rating: MTime Played: 30 minutes Sometimes, you just want to smash up an empty office with a sledgehammer. Perfect Vermin scratches that itch initially, but the longer you play, the more bizarre and horrific it gets. I&#8217;ve played plenty of first-person games before, but the unique way this one evolves with each iteration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3353,1900],"tags":[2282,649,702,332,4276,4275,8,4277,4278,906],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-free-to-play","category-video-game","tag-2282","tag-alien","tag-first-person","tag-horror","tag-office","tag-perfect-vermin","tag-review","tag-sledgehammer","tag-surreal","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}