Recent reviews by Derrick

extremely good

10/10

completed in less than 58 minutes, it's really really short

- good graphics, good art
somewhat scary atmosphere with a (spoiler) decent chase at the last couple minutes

- bad everything else. feels like a tech demo, and feels like not much love went into it? idk how to explain it; just missing something that good horror games have. it feels like it's an amateur mash up of outlast and portal 2, but short.

One of the best games I've ever played. The timer creates a lot of great anxiety-induced-moments, the music choice is always on point, and there's more seriousness, drama and fear than any of the other Dead Rising games.

With Dead Rising 2 onward, they introduced a system where you combine weapons; I really, really dislike it. It completely ruins my favorite thing about the first Dead Rising: exploring an abandoned, zombie filled mall and using whatever's around you as a weapon. In Dead Rising you can pick up a knife or a paint can and destroy zombies with it. There was a reason to explore and go into shops, because they might contain a useful weapon. But in the other iterations of the game, if you're not using COMBO WEAPON X or Y, then you're handicapping yourself because that's the overpowered option.

It's also more of an RPG than the other games. You've got stats, level progression, items that upgrade your stats and affect how well you do in combat in certain ways. You can carry books that boost your followers' abilities, make sharp weapons last longer or do more damage, or allow you to use toys as weapons more effectively. So for me, this provides hours and hours more gameplay time because I enjoy progression, pushing to the next level, and the rewarding sense of reaching the maximum level and becoming a god-like man.

spoilers ahead tho
My favorite thing about Dead Rising, without a doubt, is the 3 day limit with events that happen at certain times. It makes the world feel like it's moving, it's alive, and you're experiencing a story. It's hella cinematic. While you're trapped in the mall, within 2 or 3 days a cult begins to appear and post fliers everywhere saying they're having meetings in the theatre. At a certain time of day, the zombies become ultra powerful for a few hours. Prison inmates break free and terrorize survivors in the park.

Scripted events happen at certain times and eventually (spoiler) the military busts in and kills all the zombies... There's an incredibly surreal moment where you're exploring the mall and it's DEAD quiet! No zombies, just acres of dead bodies everywhere. You'll hear a walkie talkie or a drone flying around sometimes and, like I said, it's just surreal.

It's an eventful adventure with an unusually big map (or at least, it gives the illusion of being big because of how much stuff they've crammed into the little mall).

Really good

Amazing experience.

Highly recommended, this should cost money!

Currently I have a "gamebreaking" issue though, that is totally ruining my experience. I've played games in my virtual theatre, watched Netflix with no issues laying in bed with a massive display monitor on the ceiling...

But any of the videos I've bought from the Windows Store, which can only be played on Windows Movies & TV (a built-in app), they're just black screen. I can see the videos playing on my real-life monitor, but they're blacked out in virtual reality. So I'm assuming Windows THINKS that I'm recording/stealing the video, and they're defensively and automatically blocking out the screen.

Is there any workaround? There's absolutely no way to google this with any helpful results, and reddit hasn't been able to help me either. If you google "big screen" and "oculus" and "recording" or "windows tv" all at once, obviously the results aren't really going to be helpful for this issue. It just comes up with "how to record stuff on your oculus rift".

Not really worth $10 but it's alright. Works perfectly well with Oculus Touch and I had no issues, and it scared the living duck out of me.

It's really short. But it's only $30 and I was expecting it to be $60, so there's that. I didn't hide from enemies, I basically sprinted through a lot of areas, so that's a couple hours of gameplay I missed out on, and it sort of ruined the experience. Still though, I managed to complete the game in ~8 hours, and if a second playthrough brings me to 16 hours, that's not bad.

The game tried to simulate almost everything people could fear, and it did a good job IMO. I have a deep fear of *spoiler* dark lakes and oceans, */spoiler* and it even managed to trigger that fear. It reminds me of Resident Evil 7; you've got your usual muck monsters, jump scares, but there's sections of the game with "bugs" or "torture" and Outlast 2 also attempts to segment the horror into different types of fear.

Things get really climactic and cinematic, and it's equally terrifying and stressful. Just constant stress throughout the entire playthrough. I loved it.

This is really, really incredible. I'm physically and emotionally excited as I play this. This is something more than a game.

It's really, really easy to set up.

I plan on finally sitting down and watching The Matrix in my very own theatre. It's really nice being able to play my old games in this setting. Magical.