Forsaken Spire

After getting used to the controls i had a lot of fun climbing the different towers available and i would recommend this game to anyone with a VR headset.

I found controls to be pretty disastrous (HTC Vive), others don't seen to have complained yet though. I had high hopes for this, thought it looked pretty fantastical, but basically I can't control the little bu&&er. Seem to be 2 sorts of action a pull (without button press) and a grip with trigger - neither are guaranteed to fix you in place - so you're constantly slipping and sliding away from your current position. Also you often find yourself sinking into the ground (reset camera/height does not resolve). Sometimes a hand won't detach as well, leaving you frustratingly stuck thrashing about. Having to slap-drag, grip the ground to move along particularly when going downwards (stairs, sand dune) is tedious. Particularly as each move seems to see you slip back a bit. No idea how the dev(s) have managed to perform that jump and grab onto a vertical bar and hold on, I can't grab one whilst (standing/slipping off) on a box below it. To me 3 things need to be fixed - the slap-drag and grip need to be more predictable - a grab is a grab, not this weak buttered fingered thing, standing has character fixed in one place and not slipping and sliding and some locomotion option for flat ground, moving downwards.

pretty cool

Either something about the controls needs to drastically change, or the devs need to put some explanation of how the controls work in-game. As it stands, I genuinely don't think the interactions shown in the trailer are possible. It seems you need to make sure your "fingers" in game need to be on opposite sides of an object and you need to squeeze the controller (on Index grip with your fingers and push on anything on the face with your thumb), but no matter what the fingers just slowly slip off the object. Or not so slowly. Trying to climb a vertical ridge is a guaranteed trip back to the bottom. The little bit at the start of the trailer where they grab a token and throw it into that bowl? That was actually [i]hard[/i]. Picking up an object shouldn't be hard. It's frustrating, because this game has a lot of potential. The concept for the grip system is interesting and unique, just not tuned right. The procedural towers are very cool, and I desperately want to explore them.