
Got the Platinum (PC equivalent). Was my most challenging Platinum yet but also the most fun. Love the game, 10/10. I wouldn't have given it a try if not for Digital Foundry looking at it and its' inclusion of Path Tracing.
I haven't bought a AAA game at launch in years. I exclusively buy AAA games on big Steam Sales since I've been going through my backlog and finishing games I bought over the years. I didn't care much for Pragmata when it was announced because as much as I appreciate games like Resident Evil , I'm not into survival horror or abstract puzzle solving. When Digital Foundry brought up Pragmata having Path tracing I decided to look into it a few weeks before the game's launch and was impressed with what I was seeing in terms of graphics and performance. Gameplay was fun, no focus on horror or unkillable enemies or puzzle solving that has you searching for items to unlock a door that doesn't make any sense (ala Re2).
The game looks great even with just ray tracing but the lack of Ray Reconstruction harms reflections a lot, still if you don't have a high end PC, regular RT is fine enough and performance is awesome (I played through Lunatic with just RT for the highest frame rate possible, which was around the 200's in my case). I would not play the game without RT though, it was clearly not meant for it and you'd be missing artistic intent.
Lunatic and some of the training sims were quite a challenge for me. I'm no souls player but I really enjoy the game mechanics and balance of fun action and challenge. I would've really liked if Lunatic was available from the start. After the demo being so easy I knew I wanted more of a challenge but who knows, maybe my opinion would be different if I didn't already have the experience of the game mechanics on normal.