Child Of Ault

EDIT: I'm updating my review after a patch than change a lot the whole balancement of the game. I would say than Child of Ault for my eyes is almost twice as good as before. Now your units are very effective, you can cast many of them (before they go and die soon, so slingshot was the only afforbable way to combat) and I'm experimenting mixing tanks and long range units. Slingshot is still useful, but not as much as before. With this change I was able to progress more in the game, and there are quite nice environments later. Can't say the overall lenght (the difficulty jumped out after a while), from the map doens't seems huge but not sure if it's the only map avaliable, if something drive you to replay previous locations as any of them has a star ranking. In any case, very promising improvements. Nice feedback too, it's ever a good thing when a dev listen to users. --- At the moment is missing a review of this game in english, and the description itself is not very clear about contents. Child of Ault is a tower defense game, with the classical slingshot fighting seen in other games, but with some differences: 1) your shots could use mana to cast magic; 2) you can summon character to defense your tower; 3) you've a map with lot of locations to beat during the campaign; 4) you're going to grow unlocking new spells and summon; 5) the game try to add a story and some characters; 6) there are sort of boss fights. All those elements are interesting, in my opinion. Unfortunately in game strategy weights 20% where slingshots is 80%, and as an action game is not good enough to stay close to QuiVR or archery in The Lab. That said, Child of Ault is not a bad product (at least for VR standards) and delivers some variety and contents. With more strategy I would be way more happier, but could be a game to consider if you like this kind, maybe discounted.

Game starts and some 'uncle' walks in what I presume to be his house and tells me he's going to give me a poo on my magic report card unless I do better?? Tower defense in VR good for kids, ok graphically but boring as an uncle taking a ♥♥♥♥ on your report card in whatever country this dev is from. Also in that country they have hands the wrong way round, so in a country with hands the wrong way round and uncles taking dumps on report cards this may be a good game. Here not so much.

Im not a big fan of tower defense games in general, but this was a pleasant surprise. The game play is rather unique, and works quite well. You have a good variety of defensive structures and unique units (toys) to your disposal and is able to participate in the defense in person as well. At first glance this appears to be a "kids only" game with a cartoony world, toys and a wizard uncle. But its actually turns out to contain challenging tactical battles along the road. The story, dialogue and voice acting is not much to look forward to, but the game play is great.

游戏总体还算可以，风格是卡通化，老少皆宜，核心玩法是塔防，以前玩的塔防类游戏都是玩家一个人站在塔上射，但是这个游戏允许玩家自己造兵，所以对于我而言，有那么些新意。 先说下游戏的优点： 1、全程语音，至少中文版本是这样的。 2、多种多样、各具特色的兵种和怪物，使得游戏的策略性有所提升。 3、4系魔法，每一系魔法都有自己的特点，这也能提升游戏的策略性。 4、BOSS出场方式生动形象，确实营造出了一种大魔头出现的氛围。 5、开场剧情丰富。 6、游戏配置要求低，即使是960的显卡也丝毫没有任何延迟。 但也有不少缺点： 1、从第2关开始，关卡与关卡之间就没有了剧情衔接，第一个BOSS我甚至不知道为什么会出现。之所以有这种感觉，原因是开场剧情挺丰富，但是后面突然之间就什么剧情都没有了，给人感觉很奇怪。 2、游戏虽然加入了造兵机制，但是造兵需要能量，然后能量有限，玩家至少一半的时间依旧是在玩射箭游戏，射箭的塔防游戏大多大同小异，所以造兵带来的新意，在玩一会儿后就会立刻消失。 3、玩家在同一时刻需要关注的事情太多，既要造兵摆陷阱、又要自己瞄准射击，尤其是BOSS关卡，玩家还需要在多个塔之间来回切换，并且既要想方设法进攻BOSS的基地，又要时刻注意防守自己的基地，完全忙不过来。 4、那些总是朝向玩家的面片植物感觉可以去掉，玩家居高临下看这些植物，一眼就能看出来这些植物是面片，而且还会随着玩家的位置而旋转，给人感觉很奇怪。 5、新手引导最好能有些位置提示，或者直接就放在玩家当前位置的正前方，否则容易找不到新手引导。 然后还有些不算是缺点，但是加上可以使游戏更好的地方，比如： 1、玩家的房间内可交互性物体太少，且可交互性物体没有任何物理效果。 2、关卡选择不够VR化，可以想一些更适合VR的选择方式。 3、4系魔法释放方式都是一样的，除了效果不同外，不能给玩家带来额外的操作体验。 以上仅个人愚见，希望后面游戏能做的更好！

Child of Ault definitely has a charm to it: maybe it's the whimsical music, or fairly well-designed cartoony environments. However, there is no polish here at all. I can't recommend this game for its many flaws and obnoxious dialogue and voice acting. I completed the game in about 2 and a half hours in two sittings, and didn't particularly enjoy it past the first half. The instructions are confusing, and new mechanics are often thrown in seconds before they are needed to avoid death, particularly during long boss battles. This resulted in dozens of respawns where I had no idea what had happened, and had to die a few more times in order to figure it out. While this might be endearing to a 'hardcore' style of game, it only amounted to frustration and confusion. The system of both spawning creatures and firing your bow-like staff was what drew me in. While it provided some degree of entertainment, the game just wasn't difficult enough (outside of the randomness mentioned above) to make full use of these mechanics.

Child of Ault is what you would get when you turn mobile app tower defence games into a VR game though plays a combination of a tower defence game and Longbow from "The Lab". Its a little confusing at first and doesnt do a great job of explaining what you are supposed to be doing but I picked it up pretty fast. This may or may not be due to the fact it's been translated from Chinese to English and that the voice over acting (whilst in perfect English) dosent seem to have been translated correctly. A few spoken sentances are...off for lack of a better description. However..once you start popping up your defensive points and firing magic bolts at incoming enemys it no longer matters. Playing the game is quite intuitive (once you start at least). It's a very nice looking cartoony world and one of the nicer ones I've visited in my Vive. The game play is acctually fun and quite engaging as well. Whilst I'm only a couple of levels in, I can see me playing this right through the main campagin (when I get the free time). Well worth the price asked and a must if (like I mentioned earlier) you like both tower defense games and enjoyed Longbow in "The Lab".

Some of the worst voice acting I've ever heard combined with just dropping you into the game with no context or how to play makes this a pretty average game... I can see why it was in the Indie Gala VR II Bundle...

挺不错的塔防游戏，有宝宝有道具和NPC，发射的魔法箭也有各种属性，如果你没有体 验过VR塔防，这会是你拥有的第一款VR塔防游戏。我的体验视频：http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg3MjcyMDQ3Ng==.html?spm=a2hzp.8253869.0.0 希望大家喜欢，我会把所有的steamVR游戏都买下做个测评，每天为您推送一款精彩作 品，求关注 微信公众号：VR顾小逗

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Polished gfx and presentation but an odd amalgam of tower defense and archery with a cartoon style. Some VR games drop you right into character and you feel part of the game but i personally didn't identify with the role of a boy opening up presents from his bearded wizard uncle and then defending crystals from incoming rabbits and other wildlife. The magic scepter draws back like a bow but has 'laser sights' so you can align your target. It's ... different. After deploying your 'toys' (traps, turrets etc) you have a wave of different attackers to contend with. After several levels there's a 'boss' fight with a witch who hurls fireballs. Then i traced a pattern in the air (spell) and the witch was defeated. The voice acting was pedestrian but it was in English (accented US) and there were lots of mid game overlays that clearly show controller functions. I got the impression that there was a lot more levels and variety of scenes ahead. At the current discounted price there's certainly a lot of content for the price, the UI works well and it all looks great but there are better individual archery, RTS and Wizardry games. If you're looking for something that combines all three however and you don't mind the confusing storyline then try this. 6.5/10