Mizuguchi Does Tetris
HIGH The VR integration works beautifully.
LOW There’s no adversarial multiplayer.
WTF Why is the default camera zoomed out so far?
Tag: VR
Astro Bot: Rescue Mission Review
Astronomical
HIGH It’s absolutely stuffed with one high after another.
LOW Having to swivel my head like an owl to look behind me.
WTF I’m not usually ‘into’ platformers, but this absolutely blew me away.
Detached Review
In Space, No One Can Feel You Dream
HIGH The frantic trepidation of wondering whether I have enough fuel and oxygen.
LOW Unclear objectives and frustrating checkpointing.
WTF I don’t understand why these pirates want to kill me so badly.
Archangel: Hellfire Review
Return Of The Robot Jox
HIGH Dropping from a stone tower and unloading into an unsuspecting enemy’s back.
LOW Forgetting to look down and walking right into a deadly pit. Multiple times.
WTF Wow, the co-op mode isn’t balanced for single players at all!
This Is Not A Review: Seeking Dawn
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Seeking Dawn, developed and published by Multiverse.
Downward Spiral: Horus Station Review
The Fragile Slip With Teeth
HIGH Probably the best zero-gravity controls in any game, ever.
LOW Lots and lots of repeated assets.
WTF A couple of trippy plot turns that don’t feel adequately set up.
Out Of Ammo Review
First-Person RTS
HIGH Finishing off a tank with a manually-thrown grenade.
LOW The whole desert map, really.
WTF How weirdly deadly medics are.
Downward Spiral: Horus Station Preview
I’ve been the owner of a Vive for little more than a week so forgive me if I’m stating the obvious here, but I’m noticing that the games most well-suited to VR are the ones where the developers don’t need to contrive some bizarre replacement for walking. By and large, if the main character doesn’t have an excuse to be standing or seated, we’re forced to either teleport around awkwardly or risk motion sickness.
Blasters Of The Universe Review
Hitting The Target
HIGH Blasting an enemy without looking while dodging a wall of bullets unscathed.
LOW A couple of repeat blaster modifications.
WTF The decapitated heads of bosses are oddly gruesome.
Cold Iron Review
The Gun Is Hungry
HIGH Gunning down a foe before they can touch their weapon.
LOW Trying to notice which of my enemy’s eyes are twitching.
WTF The ‘victory lap’ players get to run on the final boss.
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