Sony has announced Pavilion, a fourth-person puzzler heading to the PlayStation 4 and Vita consoles. Created by Visiontrick Media, Pavilion will toss players into a mysterious world without any text tutorials or beginning explanations – much like indie game Don’t Starve. The puzzle game revolves around exploration and audio-visual imagery, where players will interact and observe in the game to learn things about both the puzzling gameplay and the world itself.
But what’s fourth person? According to Sony and Visiontrick Media, the character in Pavilion is not your avatar and you are not in control of him. Instead, you have to find ways through environmental interaction to guide, influence or force the character to explore and fulfill his purpose in the mysterious world.
In other words, while the character is central to the game, players won’t be using him to “play” the game, but rather the environment and objects around him in order to navigate and progress.
