Most levels start with you playing a game-within-a-game, with gameplay modeled after famous classics like Super Metroid, Sonic the Hedgehog, and others. Similarly, 1989 has you, an elementary-age girl, playing games in class while keeping your teacher distracted. You play a young boy trying to squeeze out as much gaming time as possible, while NPCs like your disapproving mother get in the way.
Pixel Ripped 1995 (and Pixel Ripped 1989, available as DLC) hearken back to those childhoods in the best possible way. Whatever your childhood-era video game console or favorite arcade was - I’m an N64 and Nickel City child myself - you’ll probably remember long weekends spent gaming non-stop until a parent made you turn off the console or you ran out of tokens. Michael HicksĪ nostalgia-filled love letter to SNES games for ’90s kids Our other recommendation is to get active on the Ironlights Discord server, where players like to put together tournaments and compare techniques. If you stand in one place, certain classes can exploit this and attack with longer-range weapons, making it hard for you to counter-attack. I’m sure I look ridiculous swiping and posing while trying to outsmart my arena rival, but successful hits and blocks make me feel like a medieval swordsman, which is really what matters.īefore buying, make sure that you have plenty of space to move around the virtual arena.
Still, we appreciate that the game lets you fight AI opponents to stay fresh while you wait for PvP duels, the true meat-and-potatoes of the game.Īs someone who grew up trying to master different fictional lightsaber fighting techniques, Ironlights gives me the one-on-one dueling that I wish Vader Immortal had. People are much harder to trick, while AI is more prone to falling for feints. You’ll start with single-player matches against AI to master your techniques, but the difficulty level spikes once you start playing multiplayer. In our Ironlights review, we praised the game for its balanced classes and stressful combat. To prevent you from just wildly swiping at enemies as fast as possible, your weapon breaks every time you use it, so you have to strategically strike without leaving yourself vulnerable. In Ironlights, you challenge your enemies as a variety of classes, each of which uses a different weapon combination. Step into the ring against AI or human opponents and use your brain as much as your arms to strike down foes in a game that has some of the best combat and multiplayer we’ve seen on the Quest. Michael HicksĪn intense melee dueling arena where skillful technique trumps speed
It’s impressive that developer Warpfrog managed to make the game work with the Quest’s limited hardware at all, and it’s been a blast to play so far. He praised the game for its variety of weapons and mostly bug-free gameplay. The Goldilocks of VR weapon handling, if you will,” in his review. Nick described B&S combat as a “balanced mix of ‘video gamey’ and semi-realistic that feels just right. Plus, this port will allow you to use mods, which creative gamers have used to add foes from Star Wars, Marvel, and other popular brands. Plus, it adds a new procedurally generated Dungeons mode in which you traverse through different environments, vanquishing foes, collecting loot, and leveling up your skills. Now it is available untethered on the Quest 2 with Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, so your duels to the death can become fully roomscale. Its popularity stems from the realistic physics engine, which lets you parry or deflect attacks and ensures your weapons don’t just teleport through foes.
One of the most popular PC VR games, Blade & Sorcery is a giant sandbox where you fight foes with swords, bows and arrows, or magical attacks. Medieval duels backed by a realistic physics engine