Recent reviews by Reyos

The game looked good and has promise but there's control issues that made me just quit in the first mission. First, and a common issue among VR games, they give you a control scheme but show the mapping only on a single VR controller type - knowing what the controls are on an oculus does nothing for me on the index. The second issue is when I picked up a smart pad audio log, there seemed to be no way to drop it, the audio played, but I was in combat and couldn't grab a new clip to reload my pistol without being able to drop the smart pad item, which there was no way to do it seemed - made the game completely unplayable.

Start with a Legend of Zelda style base, add in some light soulsborn style combat, turn it all in an isometric camera angle that hides more secrets than it reveals, hide all the instructions deep inside the game where you need to find them, and finish it all with a cute fox. What's not to love?

Really this is a great game and a callback to an earlier era of gaming, where games were a bit harder and required you to think through things a bit more sideways. Even the manual in game is a call back to 30 years ago, with the pen markings filling out sections and notes, and even a few cola can/coffee cup rings on the pages. There's a lot to discover and an actual story that you won't understand most of even after it puts you through a few twists because half of it is told in an in game language you would have to figure out for yourself.

I do like the idea, and there is promise here, but the tapping is far too sensitive, it turns on randomly thinking I had tapped my headset, and sometimes doesn't even recognise me actually tapping it to turn it off! Perhaps if they also somehow made the tapping only work when the controllers were near the headset, as a double check that it's actually the user's hand and not just motion during gaming it would be much more useful.

Decently fun rogue like, reminded me a lot of Binding of Isaac (with less religious imagery and naked horrible things) but there are some issues with this game.

Biggest issue was the control scheme. It took a lot of getting used to even though it was similar to Isaac, this side on view as opposed to top down feels a little more awkward. Another big issue for my taste there's so little that needs unlocking as you play, just side rooms (most of which i turned off since they weren't worth using) and half of these things are 'unlocked' anyways in the DLC. All the items themselves seem to be in the pool from the start, with none of them unlocking as you make progress in the game, one of the things that's enjoyable about games like Binding of Isaac or Dead Cells. Some of the mechanics are pretty poorly explained and the game did leave me wanting a bit more complexity, but the references in it are fun and it's overall a good game.

Why would you get this game at this point? Everything that made it fun was simply made better in the remake. get Rebirth instead!

I like the general idea of stained glass puzzles, but there are issues with the system that makes this hard to play. The drag and drop sometimes freezes up completely, thankfully alt-tabbing out handles that problem but having to alt tab in and out of a game a half dozen times during single puzzles gets really, really annoying.

If they fixed the issues I'd recommend this game, but since it's nearly a year since the last update, they likely won't be solving the problem.

I am returning this game.

While it claims to support Index, Vive and Oculus, it really, REALLY is only made for Vive. It even tried to map vive textures onto the controller objects the index puts in game, with ugly results. The controls don't at all match what the game says they are, and the differences are completely nonsensical. It took me most of my attempted play time to figure out that when the game wanted you to press "A" that mean't pulling the right stick down.

If they recognised the VR system being used and mapped to it, the game probably would be great, I have been playing Zen's pinball FX series for years and love them, but this is just unplayable on index.

Some of the choices made for sake of being artistic were pretty bad for the game itself. No lore exposition, which is pretty bad for a metroidvania game, and I got game "complete" in under an hour of play where the game just turns around and makes you go back through the same thing but harder in reverse.

The mechanics are not very well explained anywhere, the only reason I know the enemies are supposed to be some kind of ghosts is because it's what they are called in the achievement, and the enemies feel forced with the platforming, the difficulty curve is forced not something enjoyable.

It's not a good game, and even though I got it 80% off I may have overpaid.

The music is great, the images used are very nice too, but the game itself isn't that good. You can only color in a spot with the right color, this lets you just hold the mouse button and scribble over the whole canvas for each color in turn and finish the games without precision mattering at all.

The game is just bad.

Controls are wonky, some times the game seems to just ignore inputs, which makes the problem of how easy it is to get stun locked to death by the most basic of enemies far worse. Climbing was implemented terribly. There's a bug in the resolution that sets full screen size to 0 x some number in the billions I think, which makes it actually display like the screen resolutions are in double digits - not excusable in something over a decade old.