ANDERSON

I wanted to preface this review by saying I am physically unable to play a large majority of VR games due to nausea. This is not the case with Anderson. Anderson has a plethora of options for movement and its incredibly smooth and playable. The graphics are fantastic and stable (no visual bugs or artifacting). The game doesn't hold your hand but provides adequate indicators to keep you progressing. This has been a wonderful mystery/puzzle experience and I'm glad to have been able to play it. The game is priced fairly for the length of game play and I hope the developer succeeds and puts out more content!

ANDERSON von AJRPG ist eine Art Escaperoom-Adventure mit Story. Anderson beginnt mit einer etwas konfusen Geschichte, die uns filmisch als Cutszene präsentiert wird. Am Ende dieser einführenden Erzählung befinden wir uns in einer Art Bunker oder Gefängnis. Aus diesem gilt es nun erst einmal auszubrechen. Hier begegnen wir auch der hilfreichen K.I. ANDERSON, Namensgeber des Spiels und des großen Kühlschranks im Bunker. Mit der Hilfe der K.I. entkommen wir relativ einfach aus dem ersten Raum und gehen nicht normal durch eine geöffnete Tür in die vermeintliche Freiheit, sondern teleportieren durch ein sonderbares Portal. Soll dieser Kniff die langen Ladezeiten kaschieren mit denen Anderson erheblich zu kämpfen hat? Oder habe ich da einen Storyteil überhört? Nahezu alle Türen im Spiel funktionieren nur als eine Art Portal. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2721685171 Nun gut, sind wir raus aus dem Bunker stehen wir auf einem eingezäunten Gelände an einer Küste. Komplett mit Leuchtturm, Wohnhaus und zwei Laborgebäuden und einem kleinen Hain mitsamt gruseliger Statue. Wobei wir hier jedes Gebäude als einzelnen Escaperaum definieren können, sind wir nämlich einmal drin, kommen wir erst wieder raus, wenn wir alle Rätsel im Raum gelöst haben. Die K.I. Anderson fliegt uns, nachdem wir sie befreit haben dabei ständig als begleitende Monitordrohne um und immer wieder auch durch den Kopf. Teleportieren wir durch eine Portaltür wieder in die dunkle regnerische Nacht, glitscht Anderson auch gerne im Kreis fliegend durch den Fußboden, bis wir uns ein paar Meter weiter bewegt haben. Die Geschichte in Anderon ist konfus und wird in Dokumenten und Tonbänder usw. erzählt, die wir in den einzelnen Gebäuden finden. Dabei können wir uns sehr langsam in freier Bewegung auf dem Gelände umsehen, oder uns per Teleportation umher beamen. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2722917333 Die Grafik in Anderson ist wunderbar gelungen, alles sieht sehr realistisch aus. Die Gegenstände im Spiel haben alle einen physikalischen Körper, sodass wir nicht mit unseren Händen z.b. durch Wände, Tische oder andere Objekte glitschen. Das finde ich super und sollte in Pflicht in VR-Spielen sein. Allerdings ist die Performance des Spiels immer noch grottenschlecht. Ich habe drei Versuche gebraucht, um Anderson überhaupt ordentlich zum Laufen zu bekommen. Beim ersten Mal waren die Wände des Bunkers transparent, beim zweiten mal ist mir der komplette PC abgerauscht. Wenn Anderson aber läuft, dann macht es schon Spaß und sieht ja auch richtig gut aus, wenn es auch viel zu dunkel ist, meiner Meinung nach könnte es etwas mehr Licht gebrauchen. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2722922290 Schlimmer und leider ein Gamebraker ist die Steuerung des Tabletts, das man später findet. Es ist zumindest mit den Index-Controllern unmöglich zu bedienen, es reagiert nur sporadisch auf die Eingabebefehle. Obwohl das Spiel wunderbar die Index-Controller unterstützt. Dieses Problem hat mich leider dazu gebracht, das Spiel abzubrechen. Mir fehlen nur noch zwei Errungenschaften, ich denke ich bin kurz vor dem Ende. Und zweitens leider einen Daumen nach unten zu geben, bis dieses Problem gelöst wurde. Aufgrund Steuerungsprobleme am Ende (mit Knuckles) z.Zt. nicht zu empfehlen, leider. 👀[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32170554/]Alles von der dunklen Küste[/url] auf meiner Kurator Seite. 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Curators group in German / English 👑 [list][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Follow Main group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40282064/] Follow Second group [/url][/list] [u]English:[/u] --------------------------------------------> ANDERSON by AJRPG is a kind of escaperoom adventure with a story. Anderson begins with a somewhat confused story, which is presented to us cinematically as a cutscene. At the end of this introductory story we find ourselves in a kind of bunker or prison. The first thing we have to do is break out of it. Here we also meet the helpful K.I. ANDERSON, eponym of the game and the large refrigerator in the bunker. With the help of the A.I. we escape relatively easily from the first room and don't go normally through an opened door into the supposed freedom, but teleport through a strange portal. Is this trick supposed to conceal the long loading times that Anderson has to struggle with considerably? Or did I miss a story part? Almost all doors in the game only work as a kind of portal. Well, once we're out of the bunker, we're standing on a fenced-in area on a coast. Complete with a lighthouse, an apartment building, two laboratory buildings and a small grove with a creepy statue. Here we can define each building as an individual escape room, because once we're in, we can't get out until we've solved all the puzzles in the room. After we have freed her, the A.I. Anderson constantly flies around us as an accompanying monitor drone and repeatedly through our heads. If we teleport through a portal door back into the dark rainy night, Anderson also likes to glide through the floor flying in circles until we have moved a few meters further. The story in Anderon is confused and told in documents and tapes, etc., that we find in each building. In the process, we can look around the grounds very slowly in free motion, or beam around via teleportation. The graphics in Anderson are wonderfully done, everything looks very realistic. The objects in the game all have a physical body, so we don't slide through walls, tables or other objects with our hands. I think that's great and should be mandatory in VR games. However, the performance of the game is still terrible. It took me three tries to even get Anderson to run properly. The first time, the walls of the bunker were transparent, and the second time, the entire PC crashed. But when Anderson runs, it's fun and looks really good, even if it's way too dark, in my opinion it could use some more light. Worse and unfortunately a gamebraker is the control of the tablet you find later. It is impossible to operate, at least with the index controllers, responding only sporadically to input commands. Although the game wonderfully supports the index controllers. This problem unfortunately made me cancel the game. I'm only missing two achievements, I think I'm close to the end. And secondly, unfortunately, giving a thumbs down until this problem is solved. Due to control problems at the end (with Knuckles) currently not recommended, unfortunately. 👀[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32170554/]Everything from the Dark Coast[/url] on my curator page. 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Curators group in German / English 👑 [list][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Follow Main group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40282064/] Follow Second group [/url][/list]

ANDERSON erinnert in der ersten Stunde Gameplay eher an ein Escape the Room Spiel als an ein Point n klick Adventure. Das Spiel verfügt über eine Story, allerdings dürfte der Entwickler den Einstieg ins Spielgeschehen noch etwas ausbauen. Man startet in einem kleinem Raum in dem man von einer KI begrüsst wird. Hat man den geschafft giebt es sogar ein grosses Aussenareal. Die Grafik und Atmosphäre sind sehr stimmig. Auch die Lichteffekte sind schön gemacht. Die Rätsel sind bis jetzt nicht zu einfach, so dass man auch mal die grauen Zellen im Kopf etwas anstrengen muss. Das Spiel ist bis jetzt gut gemacht hat aber dennoch einiges Verbesserungspotential. Man wird ständig aus der Immersion herausgerissen.Das Greifen mit den Händen wurde nicht schön umgesetzt. Hält man etwas in der Hand wird die Hand ausgeblendet. Auch kommt es mit den Händen oft zu kollisionen mit Gegenständen oder Wänden noch bevor man diese berührt. Das Wände (der ganze Raum) nach vorne gleiten wenn man ihnen mit dem Kopf zu nahe kommt finde ich persönlich gar nicht gut. So was gehört zurück in die Anfangszeit von VR. Wenn diese Kleinigkeiten aber noch behoben werden ist es ein sehr cooles Spiel. Ich empfehle es Rätselfreunden welche gerne mal wieder etwas Escape - Adventure spielen möchten und dazu noch eine Story zu schätzen wissen.

The game is a puzzle kinda escape the room game with a few rooms, and a few things to do in each room. Voice acting is pretty good, puzzles are satisfactory and the story is intriguing. But is pretty buggy, i had to uninstall and reinstall to get the initial computer to "power on" i thought i had to power the monitor but it was a glitch. This is probably my main issue, as i dont know if im supposed to be able to do something or is the game bugged? i felt this a few times during my playthrough, and in a puzzle game, it kinda ruins it. Performance was pretty bad, 60fps on low with a 1080 and a 3600, and it still had dips. Graphics arent bad, but they are pretty basic, and i had to go to LOW quality settings where the textures where pretty ugly looking. Also, the overall environment i felt was way too dark like you cant see your hands dark. You can grabpull items, you point at something, and it comes to your hand, but this causes anything in the way to get knocked off, i had to restart once because a mission item was knocked off and couldnt find it anymore. It lacks polish in a sense of guiding you where to go next, and if you miss the audio you might have to wonder aimlessly until you find your next objective. I understand its an early access game, and it would normally get a positive recommendation because while it lacks polish, and is glitchy and has badish performance, its totally playable (finished it in ~1hr), and i did enjoy the puzzles and story and voice, it totally has potential. But it has not had an updated in over 6 months, so it might be abandoned?, but if its not, currently its too short and too glitchy to recommend.

After fiddling around with making controller bindings for WMR I was finally able to play the game, so lets (me) talk about it. Also for WMR users as of right now theres no official support for it but you can still play it, I've uploaded my configuration to the community bindings (albeit lazy config on my part but I think it mostly works fine) VR setup: Samsung HMD Odyssey + (WMR) Firstly for an early access game I am genuinely surprised on how playable it is despite many things being rough and unpolished (more on that in a bit). At first bat when you launch it you're dropped into this sort of tutorial area with some story thing at the end, very straight-forward (sitting or standing, how to grab/select etc) then you go to the main game after. Right now I don't know much about the plot so I'm not gonna comment on that. The atmosphere here is pretty dark, both visually and storywise (I think). Music and ambience suit each other nicely, in other words you feel completely immersed which is nice. From the starting section when the lights flicker on when you get closer, it gives you some very cool vibes, almost reminding me of a past click-and-point adventure game (maybe a different genre) but I cant remember which. Also in general the island has this near Myst sorta feel to it, that being a small island, buildings that serve as a powerplant or house, which contain puzzles and all. Adding to that the puzzles/challenges feel pretty challenging and will make you think (totally didn't spend 30 minutes on one lol). Now with this game being early access its gonna have its flaws, I'll list what I experienced or thought was weird in dot form: - Can grab objects from a distance without the indicator showing up - Game lags quite a bit, but I've read optimisation is heavily being worked on so I wouldn't worry about it - Some world objects don't seem to have the same visual consistency/fidelity but this could be just placeholder objects etc - Hand doesn't seem to grab onto handles/levers - Smooth locomotion is a tad janky - Hitboxes/collisions are way too large/oversized for some objects - Not much interaction despite objects such as cabinets and drawers placed everywhere (last two might be a little nitpicky but I thought I may as well just point those out) Overall I'm pretty impressed with this game, again despite (x3 lol) it being rough and early access it is very playable, not once did I ever feel like force quitting the game or ripping off my headset even due to the amount of bugs. I'm going to play some more soon and to add to that I really can't wait to see what the future updates are gonna bring us, so all the best to the devs! gameplay vid: https://youtu.be/_0KUAgZZsBY (also please add official WMR support soon pls)

Anderson is a pretty good VR puzzle game. I had a lot of fun with this game, however, it is not without its faults. The graphics and Sound design are pretty good. Voice acting wasn't professional grade, but it seems like they tried. The puzzles are fun, but not very hard. Not being hard is fine by me. Only got stuck a couple times, but even then it wasn't for a frustratingly long time. The puzzles take place in several areas each being like a mini escape room. The story wasn't too deep, but I liked it. It clicked with me (I don't want to give anything away), Really, the only problem were the bugs. None of the bugs I ran into were game-breaking, however, one towards the end held me up for awhile. On that note, the loading screens, when one transitions between areas, are very shaky, which could cause problems for some, I imagine. Once loaded into the area, however, the performance seemed solid.

ANDERSON is a paid story-driven VR game inspired by classic point & click adventures. It worked on my HTC Vive system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Has short in-game tutorial at the start. Hard enough puzzles. Has 6 steam achievements. CONS: Does not work with Index controllers. If you like Escape the Room type games, maybe give this a buy. I got a free key for this from the Steam Curator program. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/23133713-VIVE-VR/]ViVE VR curator group[/url]

ANDERSON isn't the most original of games, but from what I've played, it's very well executed, especially so for an early access game. I've seen some gripes about performance in previous reviews, but it runs just as I require on my 8700k, 1070 Ti, 32GB of RAM and original VIVE. It's a little dark in some spots, but otherwise the textures and modelling is really good. I obviously haven't played much, but the tutorials are good and enjoyable to work through. However, the tutorial kind of drops you right in, and while tutorials that hold your hand are super annoying, I do feel it could be slightly more explanatory. There are also some issues with collision, but nothing game breaking. The sound is also pretty good, especially with the voice acting. I would recommend this game to other people.

Really solid VR experience. Everything feels right and more than anything the vibe in the game is coming together very well. You can tell the developers care more than just having one go from point A to point B. They have added a lot of detail to each environment to give it a very particular mood.