I Hate Heroes: Rocket Man

I'm really enjoying the game HOWEVER there is a major drawback in that the game is totally out of focus, blurred so it takes a great deal of the fun out of it because you can't really see well where you're going. I have an inteli7-7700K quad processor and an NVidia GTX 1080 graphics card and 32GB RAM. I am using an Oculus Rift. Perhaps that's the problem. I don't know but it is very frustrating and I wish someone would address the issue... Soon. If this gets corrected I will update my review.

First of all i my computer setup: Intel core i7 3770 GTX 1070 Samsung 850 EVO SSD Oculus Rift My problem now is that the game has such a bad performance (even on the lowest grafik settings) that I wasn't even able to play threw the tutorial. I am talking about an estimated 3 FPS and it takes a while when you look around till the screen even loads. You can argue that my CPU is not the newest but i have ablosulty no problem in most of the other vr games

Disclaimer: I was given this game by the dev during a Reddit giveaway (and he did ask that I write a review, of course) This isn't a ground-breaking game that will hit the must-own VR games lists. But it is a reasonably fun and pretty challenging platformer. You hold rocket boosters in your hands and pull the triggers to thrust. They generate the most thrust when pushing off something, and have only a small effect when you're in the air. This means the game's challenge is in properly generating momentum while on the ground and then thrusting vertically towards the next platform. The level design so far (I'm two levels in out of six) has been interesting with varied types of terrain. Only six levels right now, but they are fairly long. There is some story about you being a captured super hero navigating these death mazes for the amusement of some villain. The villain's dialogue is cringey and sounds like it's voiced by a fifteen-year-old who hasn't quite finished puberty yet, but that might all be intentional. It kinda reminds me of Syndrome from the Incredibles (when he was starting out as a villain). I did run into a bug where checkpoints simply stopped working halfway through a level, so as I died near the end, it was sending me back to the halfway point about 3 checkpoints back. A reload of the level fixed the problem, but it did happen. It's not a bad value for $6 and could fun to play with friends to compete to finish levels the fastest (there is a local leaderboard where you enter your name each time you finish a level).

Controls are the big problem with this. In the first few levels it is fun, but as the levels get harder, the controls become more of a limitation. It needed to have rocket boosters work without boosting off walls.

Does this only work with VR?

I found this game utterly charming as well as pleasantly challenging. The actual concept of the gameplay is something that can only be done in vr and is pretty original as far as I can tell, but the additional atmospheric elements like the villains voice acting was what made this game really stand out as a fun experience. I can say with absolute certainty that the main reason I completed the game was to hear all the fun dialogue the "syndrome-esqe" villain had to say. I got this on sale for $4 and I'd say it was definitely worth it!

Not....very good.