No Man's Sky on PSVR2: glorious, overwhelming space exploration

I’ve been standing here for 15 minutes and I have no idea what to do.

It makes sense, I suppose. I’ve never crash-landed on an alien world where flora and fauna are both beastly and beautiful in equal measure in real life, but if I did, I don’t suppose I’d know what the hell to do then, either. I’m sporting a laser-stroke-scanner-stroke-multi-tool, but I don’t really know what to do with it. I have a very impressive Minority Report-esque smart device velcroed to my wrist, but I’m not entirely sure how that works, either. Then an alarm starts beeping – apparently, the crust of this world is fatally radioactive – and pretty soon, I’m dead because I couldn’t work out how to stay undead.

Huh. Interesting.

My second life in No Man’s Sky’s Fractal update doesn’t fare much better. While there is a tutorial here, it is very wordy, and small, and my tired, middle-aged eyes find it hard to read the tooltips. Also, I keep getting distracted by the creatures snuffling about behind me. I turn – almost knocking over the cup of Biscuit Brew next to me; pay attention to your surroundings, Vik, just like the warnings tell you – and I finally see one. He’s short and squat, like a sentient cowpat, his long snout twitching along the ground for… uh, I don’t know, actually. He’s not keen on partnering up with me, though – when I approach, he scarpers in the opposite direction, mewling softly.