Holodance

At 71 years old I'm quite certain most other players of this VR game are considerably younger than I am. I just started playing it yesterday. I've logged in 2.2 hours of play so far, gathered 10,200,000 points, and am enjoying it a lot. I exercise close to 3 hours a day, and this game will now add a bit more to that. Primarily arm exercise of course, but arms need exercise too. This game is different in that you are not just hitting targets flying at you, you have to use your brain too. You need to quickly determine what type of target is coming and where you need to hit it, and then move your arm in the correct direction to capture that orb and get the points for it. Plus you have very little time to make these determinations. Very much recommended for couch potatoes to help keep them from making permanent double indentations in the couch cushions. The more I use it, I'm sure the more I will understand. It's pretty user friendly though after you play a few songs. I'm still trying to find out if statistics can be saved for more than one person. Probably not, but it would be a nice feature. I've only been playing in the Free section so far, and primarily just racking up points in order to open up all the playing areas as soon as possible. Up till now I've been playing mostly AudioShield, Space Pirate Trainer, and PowerBeats. Along with them, I’m sure this game will soon become one of my favorites. Update -- today is August 2 and when I completed playing Holodance last night I had accumulated 40 million points. It's a bit addictive for me because I'm pretty competitive. I'm not concerned about competing with others, but I do compete with myself. At first I thought a million or two points a day would be OK, but now I don't feel like I'm done until I hit another 10 million point level in a day. Perhaps I'll even understand what "osu" means eventually. I do have a suggestion of how to get better and better with this game. Play a level of difficulty above what you are comfortable with. Don't play the easy levels just because you can win there without much effort. Maybe that will make you feel good, but that's all it will do. If you play above your present skill level, you will push yourself harder. Try not to let it bother you that your point levels are lower than when you are playing a less difficult level. Who cares? You will be getting more skilled at it at in a shorter period of time. Play for a couple of days at a harder level and then check and see how much easier you can raise your score on the easier level version. I'm so impressed with Jashan, the developer of this game. I presented him with several questions and a number of problems I was having while playing the game over the last week, and he answered back on every one of them. And he did so much quicker than I would ever have expected. I was starting to feel a bit guilty by being such a pest with all my questions, but then started to feel like I was actually participating in the further improvement/development of this game by pointing out these problems.

After seeing some gameplay videos on Youtube, I really wanted to like this game. But after playing Beat Saber for about 2 years and just getting into Synth Riders, I could not find this game enjoyable. This game probably could have done without the story mode, but it is an interesting idea and it was created before free play mode, which is the only thing that can remotely make anyone want to keep playing is if they like or have played osu. Pros: Has access to the osu library. Many many songs to choose from. You may like this game a lot if you play osu. The game has part of a story mode and I found the dragons charming. Plenty of environments that are nice to look at. Different ways to play, catching orbs, slashing orbs, shooting drones. Lots of options in the menus to customize your gameplay. Cons: Practically no tutorial. There is a box to read on the main menu, but it tells you almost nothing about the game. In all gameplay modes all of the notes can be hit with both hand interchangeably. Makes for dull gameplay. Lots of options in the menu to the point it was hard to navigate through them. It appears that you cannot fail songs. The story mode is unfinished. I found the very 1st level not beginner friendly at all. There is no difficulty to choose from in story mode, only in free play mode. There is an option to unlock later story mode levels automatically, and maybe it is just that this option is broken. I wanted to see if the story got more serious over time, so I picked this environment with burning trees. It seems like only the first 3 areas in the story actually have songs. Although somehow I got a song from the 11th area playing with the menu still open. It started fairly busy, but the notes weren't spaced out much and then later on only would have the occasional 2 notes at a time and was rather boring. Likely an unfinished song and not supposed to be there. This later environments wouldn't deload unless I quit the game. Very buggy. Maybe this only happened because I didn't play through the entire story and skipped ahead, but even so if the developer gives and option to unlock later level to skip ahead, it needs to be tested to make sure the game isn't breaking when it is used. Understanding that this game was the 1st VR rhythm game, it tries. But Beat Saber and Synth Riders do a much better job and if you want this because it has a shooting mode, get Pistol Whip instead. Only get this if you really like osu or have children who like dragons. You have to high five and fistbump the dragon to continue, it's kind of cute.

I can appreciate it for being one of the original VR dance/rhythm games, but it does not hold up to today when you have much better options. You have two options in the game, the original story mode, which is basically where dragons throw colored balls at you. The dragons are really pretty, but it all seems a bit random and out of place and I never really felt like I was "dancing". The second option is a free mode, in which they don't seem to have any songs of their own (the UI is also a confusing mess to navigate). It's more all player made maps, which means you might find something you like if you dig far enough but there seems to be no ranking, so you will have no idea if the map you pick is actually *good* or not. Even with some of the expert and expert + maps I played, I didn't really get that dance feeling like you do in something like Audio Trip, Beat Saber, or Synth Riders, unfortunately. I appreciate the fact that apparently it supports LIV mixed reality and foot trackers, but unfortunately I could get neither working with this particular game. The avatar in LIV would work, but then after a few seconds of being in the game it would be obscured by black screen. Holodance also could not pick up my foot trackers despite giving them roles in the Steam VR settings.

This game is a mess of multiple unpolished features. There are multiple gameplay elements that you can find from other VR rhythm games, but that doesn't matter when there aren't any beatmaps to use those properly. Slapping huge pile of features on top of the osu! beatmaps results in a jerky and flowless gameplay. Maybe there is a way to setup the game so that gameplay is flowing and fun, but the UI is one of the jankiest I've ever seen. [strike]I don't know why would anybody want the whole user interface rotate at full field of view when switch to different panel. Sometimes the menu panels just randomly popup on top of each other, so you can't select anything. [/strike] UPDATE: interface rotation animation can now be disabled from the comfort settings and random menu glitches have been fixed in version 1.3.3. From starting the game and start of the first song can take about 5 to 10 minutes of fiddling with the settings and navigating different menus. Holodance would be a much better game if the developer focused only on few features and provided an easy way to make beatmaps with a good flow. Maybe that will happen in the future, but currently I can't recommend this game. P.S. What's up with the campaign mode? Why there are dragons??

Unplayably awful, a huge disappointment. I love rhythm games, and was really excited to try this out, as it sounds like it has great potential. Unfortunately, what it actually is, is a badly ported tablet game unsuited for vr play. The game itself is played in a flat 2d screen awkwardly placed just out of reach in front of you. There is no 3rd dimension - although the background environment looks amazing, the game itself is completely flat. The videos showed people using laser swords and guns, interacting in 3d - this is not available. Possibly these options might be unlocked later; personally, I am not willing to wade through hours of rubbish to reach them. This feels like it is perfectly designed to be played on a tablet, and it would be really good in that environment, unfortunately it is really not designed for VR. Graphics: 10/10. Gameplay: 0/10.

I got it for osu beatmaps Thats more like 2000s graphics game with really bad gameplay that supports osu beatmaps.... They really want to milk money out of everything ( char creation , osu implementation , tons of scenes completely useless, beatsaver support etc) but none of them standout to the game , all executed badly The graphics are that horrible that they should tag the game as "Horror" The gameplay sucks , so uninspired and without any difficulty I dont enjoy it at all , waste of money

By far my favorite active game on VR, next to Until You Fall. So many songs and a great challenge. A work of love from the developer. Prefer this over Beat Saber and Synth Rider

Exactly what I was looking for! I have been scouring all the VR dancing and rythm games looking for something similar to IIDX or Stepmania. This game lets you download ranked osu! files in game and play them immediately. You can download osu! and get unranked files for that, and the next time you start Holodance those songs will be added. If the backgrounds could play videos and custom images it would be perfect.

Отличная игра с процедурной генерацией музыки, но, к сожалению, заброшена, а имеющиеся на текущий момент мелкие баги очень портят впечатление как на стандартной версии (1.4.2 от 12.2020), так и на alphadev (1.5.0 от 03.2021) Да, это та ритм-игра в VR с различными режимами, в которой вы можете, как в Audiosurf / BeatHazard / MelodyEscape / Symphony, просто указать папку с музыкой и играть. Не надо специально готовить музыку и выстраивать уровни самому, как в AudioTrip / BeatSaber / SynthRiders. Еще есть исторический Story Mode, с предзаданными треками (и со своими глюками) но он скорее оставлен для истории. Однако даже на мощном железе в игре регулярно ощущаются дергания и микролаги, вибрация контроллеров частенько живет своей жизнью - иногда или не реагирует, или залипает и не заканчивается до следующего изменения вибрации (до следующей ноты). Уровень сложности песен сильно плавает в зависимости от песни. Некоторые ощущаются в 4 сложности как во 2 и тому подобное. В других играх с процедурной генерацией такого сильного разбега не ощущается. Раздел онлайн-загрузки битмапов Osu! сломан из-за изменений на сайте, можно только загружать файлы вручную. В общем и целом, AudioTrip / SynthRiders гораздо лучше отполированы, но там надо готовить каждую песню, там нельзя быстренько зайти и "а вот сейчас я хочу 'потанцевать' под вот это", как в Holodance.

游戏是好游戏。。。节奏还不错，我超喜欢第二条龙！！问题指引太少了。。。free mode怎么玩啊。。。进去完全不开始，就只能站着，还是我等级不够吗? ----------------- I mean that when I enter the free mode,I can't play maps from osu! .What I can do is standing and listening music.Does it because that my level is too low? The novice tutorial is too few.I don't totally understand how to play the game.