Oscar Ortega Lorenzo recommends Audio Trip

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RobRuffo 6 years ago
Absolutely beautiful and hypnotic, but..
This is a wonderfully active and visually hypnotic game, that has your whole body moving - as such it's a rare VR game that works out not just arms and shoulders + cardio, but your legs and abs as well. The songs are great too- real EDM tracks from known artists, and each song has a different environment.
Each song has you moving in different ways, doing different things, in a wonderful flow that matches the feel of songs WAY better than any rhythm game I have ever seen - and I have tried them all. Same holds true for how the environments morph and shift in a way that is almost like a music video for the tracks.
However, I rake off one star due to shortcomings that I hope will be fixed:
- No structure. Just pick a song, select a difficulty, rinse and repeat. I would LOVE a campaign that moved through tracks in increasing difficulty, as well as Box VR style workout set, with varying lengths and difficulty settings. Even just a button that said "Next song" and would play through all the tracks in order would be better than the nothing we have now. Come on guys, I know enough about coding to know that both of the above would be extremely easy compared to all the work you've already done here.
- There is no score recording of any kind - you have no way of knowing if you're improving between plays of songs unless you write down your score. Again - how hard would it be to record your score and its date - so you could see your progress.
- No leaderboards
- No unlockables. Guys (Girls? Don;t know enough about developers) unlockable stages, tracks, etc are fun motivators. No game design theory book would ever say different. It goes to how humans are motivated. This is why in a Karate class they don't just give you all belts when you show up and say "Have fun" - because no one would show up for that class. Maybe other rhythm games (except for the most popular ever - BeatSaber) have no structure of progression, but that does not mean it's a good idea.
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