EXD - Extra Dimensional

Beautiful game but very boring and dumb puzzles, story line is ok. didnt enjoy anything pass the warehouse.

4.5/10. I got this game in a key bundle and would have chosen to refund if I could have. It's a little sad that so much imagination and scope went into this game only for so much of the execution to be shallow and meaningless. The example that comes to mind first is you start out in a dystopian reality where you're an amazon warehouse employee who gets fired after one mistake. Love it. But a bit later your character is popping jokes that excuse the exploitation as if they didn't matter to the character at all. Why set up the back story just to ignore it later? The problems continue from there. I'm not saying the devs didn't make all their assets from scratch, but it seems like they got some asset packages and threw them together almost randomly. This game could have made use of a creative director that didn't just graduate from middle school. The beauty is skin deep. It's sad because we are starving for good VR games. Skip this one...

I wanted to like this, and support a small team creating an epic adventure. It's cheesy and knows what it's about, but I found it tedious to play. I didn't get super far, but more than once I was reduced to wandering around instead of having some kind of plan, not that I'm opposed to puzzles, but if it's too dark to see the stuff you need, I'm not having fun. The hand interactions are good - haptic stuff similar to Alyx. The combat (at least as far as I got, which was fighting the same demon spider thing) felt weightless - I was just waggling my sword at things. I thought I was softlocked for a while until I found a light (which as best I can tell you can't get by the time your character mentions probably needing a light, so get ready to reload checkpoints) and finally noticed a dark button in a dark corner that was necessary to progress. Then I died and had to restart from checkpoint anyway, then got frustrated and came to write this review.

Too many bugs

맵이 대부분 지하 던전이라서 좁은 편. 특히 버튼 같은 것들도 암석 재질인데 가끔 안빛나는 것도 있어서 찾기 어려움. 전투는 근접 무기 휘두르는 거랑 마법 발사하는 게 끝. 무기는 솔직히 길이 말고는 성능적인 차이 몰라서 의미 없는 느낌이고 마법은 불, 얼음, 전기 3종류인데 효과 차이가 없는건 아니지만 결국 3속성 발사체 형태라서 퍼즐 이외에는 거기서 거기인 느낌. 덤으로 마법 바꿀 때 손목에 테블릿 터치로 해야해서 유기적인 교체도 불가능한 건 덤. 적은 벌레형 적, 인간형 적 뿐이라서 다양한 것도 아니고 보스라고 할만한건 거대 거미 뿐인데 얘는 그냥 근접으로 잡기엔 VR로는 힘든 감이 있고 결국 마법 난사로 잡게 되는지라 좋은 보스라고는 생각 안됨. 스토리가 개인적으로 제일 불만인데 2편까지 염두해서 만들어서 그런가 제대로 완결이 안되고 중간에 끊김. 플레이 타임 4~6시간 짜리라 당연한가 싶을 수도 있는데 그거 감안해도 끊는 타이밍이 이상해서 원래 하나로 나올거를 개발 시간 부족으로 반토막 내고 출시했나 싶을 정도. 종합적으로는 3만원급은 아닌거 같음

Buggy as hell. Concept is cool but it's such a huge pain to go through this game. Plenty of enemies don't have proper death animations. They also tend not to react when hit. Only some sound is played. Some enemies go through the floor, teleport, becomes invisibles... Spiders for example are really badly made, they don't even seems to have a proper attack animation. You juste get hit. Also, I have been soft locked a fairly big number of time and going back one or several saves is always a pain in the ass. The last time I got stuck is in some kind of crypt, I pushed a button that seems to open a path to go underwater but I juste stand on the water, without any means to go under. I watched a youtuber that went trhough that path without any problem so it's probably a soft lock. By watching his video, I also could see that he unlocked a legendary hammer with the same key I had. It worked for him, not for me. Mine did worked in another socket which seems to be for a path we can't unlock yet (need a second key). So I lost my key for the hammer and will probably have yet another bug when I get back to this part. Anyway, start great, end up feeling very much half backed. Should be an early access.

I didn't refund it, because a game with this much hype behind it tends to spur the developer into going borderline crazy with updates and changes. The All Eyes on Me effect. Don't kill yourself over it though buddy! But I really was disappointed, pretty much as soon as the combat started. The game starts really well. I got vibes of Half Life when I first played it as a kid. You turn up to work at an Amazon style warehouse and you're basically just doing your job. It's frustrating that the game operates on 'you F'd up, go back', even at this stage, but it is what it is. It becomes even better when it presents you with this super hot barbarian valkyrie style character with big boobs and visible hairy flange under the armour. If you poke her boobies too many times she slices you in half, which is an odd way to treat the chosen one, but it made me laugh, picturing Morpheus ejecting Neo back into the sewage water because Neo grabbed Morpheus' butt too many times. Machines = Win. Neo = sadge. Morpheus = offended. I'd be lying if I told you this didn't just make me want a version of this game that lets me just speed bag her boobies unrestrained, but it is what it is. You know, just her and me in a room, and that's the game, if you catch my drift WEHEYHEY ;)))) A lot of time clearly went on that section and it shows. But it's what happens right after this that made me realise the game was bad. I walked up to this big egg, now being a veteran gamer, I know big eggs hanging from ceilings are bad, so I attacked it. Nothing. A cutscene animation takes place that lets you move around while it's happening, with a spider-thing emerging from the egg, dropping down disgustingly, getting its bearings, and finally attacking you. I was attacking it for this whole sequence. I have very fast reflexes, I work out in real life and take care of my physical health, so I have struck this spider's umbilical cord, nothing, struck it / stabbed it 30 odd times during this animation, and nothing. Incredibly disappointing and frustrating to hack and slash at a small spider like enemy with a sword and absolutely nothing happens. Then, the actual combat begins. It has an attack with no telegraph, an instantaneous little poke like something from Terraria. I am slashing at it, but noticing that when I enter into its 'AOE zone' it starts triggering these almost animationless attacks. It's not taking any apparent damage. It's not animating to show that I'm hitting it. This is dreadful. Its other attack is a flying charge attack through the air. I had no problem dodging this, but the first time it did this attack, I tried to intercept it with a stab, expecting the spider to just skewer itself on the sword. No, what happened is the spider took a small amount of damage, with no animation or break in its animation, and it hit me through my attack. Once this spider was dead, and I was feeling frustrated, and my heartrate raised for no good reason just fighting a pathetic little spider, I quickly turned the game off. Why bother with this when you have Half Life 2 VR? I haven't even played Alyx but I'd wager it's far superior to this. I can imagine you can just whack headcrabs out of the air like you can in Half Life 2? Why bother with it when you have literally any other VR game? The best thing about it is the woman and the physics surrounding that encounter. And wouldn't you guess it, there's other games that fill that experience out more, and better, too. Overall, the hype was not deserved. Whoever is responsible for starting the hype was probably just enamoured by the boobs section to the point they ignored how bad the combat is. It looks like the developer is actively trying to improve that though, so all is not lost. I would definitely keep your eye on it. If you buy it, do so to support what the developer has in mind, the vision. Not because you're getting that right now.