Tiger Blade gives a big middle finger to any hand holding and accessibility options and ruthlessly tests your skills without mercy and I don't know how to feel about that.
It's gorgeous, immersive, and whether you play it like a slap-happy overweight Steven Seagal or as 'I know Kung-Fu' Keanu from the Matrix, you will still have a lot of fun and get a workout at the same time.
The metroidvania genre has evolved so much in so many cool ways these last few years that playing a game in 2024 that doesn't even deliver on the basics, just isn't worth it.
Border Bots VR is gorgeous, quirky and its gameplay loop is intoxicatingly brilliant. Yeah, it's one of the best games I've played on my Quest 3 so far.
Rocksteady clearly cares for these characters and world, but the open-world and looter shooter conventions chosen don't serve the story or gameplay well.
Its polish makes mechanics sing in harmony, carrying you through by sheer enjoyable force alone. UNDERDOGS establishes new standards for what arena fighting games can achieve in VR.
While its sublime visuals, engrossing puzzles and memorable boss encounters show glimpses of greatness, inconsistent gameplay and an overreliance on excessive dialogue undermine this ambitious game.
Through ingenious level design and gratifying systems married to intensely satisfying moment-to-moment gameplay, The Lost Crown reinvents Metroidvania conventions while carving out its own new legacy.