Jet Island

If you're reading this, swing your arms manually to yank on your grapples and you'll go REAL fast. You're welcome

Jet Island has game demo vibes and is over-priced. Nevertheless, I recommend it as it is the only game filling a certain niche. What niche is that? Its the one where you combine the level design of Sonic (loops, corkscrews), Halo (the geometric structures) and 'babie's first terrain generator' (everything else) with hoverboards, jetpacks, grapple hooks, and a fear of heights. The grapple is for changing direction. The jet packs are for gaining elevation and making adjustments to speed/direction. The hoverboard is to make everything impossible. I may be skill/imagination limited, but the vast majority of the environment seems to have no function--the loops and ramps mostly seem to be the product of the idea of 'wouldn't it be cool if...' The result is game demo vibes. The viewing distance is outrageously good and the performance is great. The worm in the sky is a marvel. The islands high in the sky are probably sick, but I'll never see them up close. The textures are blurrier than my uncorrected myopia and I'm legally blind. I feel like the game would be boring for anyone lacking a crushing fear of heights or a fetish for minute angle calculations at 150 mph. For me: it's a lot of fun but I can only play for 15 minutes at a time because every fall from a high place kills my heart a little.

Best swinging game ever. You'll need a pair of strong VR knees though

This game often requires you to turn your head while looking up at extreme angles to be able to see where you need to get to. I felt I was at risk of straining or injuring my neck while playing this game. This is definitely only for people who have strong and flexible necks that they can twist and turn constantly without feeling uncomfortable.

Got my headset yesterday, got Jet Island last night, didn't boot it until the morning after, hungover to hell and back. The effort of holding in the poop in my butt was counterbalanced perfectly by the effort it took not to fall over because it literally feels like you're standing on a plank of wood with a nail sticking out of it getting launched across the landscape through the air over an extremely narrow bridge while a giant robot dragon curlicues a thousand nautical miles overhead. 10/10, can't believe we evolved from monkeys, because this game makes me feel like a caveman.

Play this game. It gets very fun traversing the large map after a few upgrades

God, I love this game. I almost never write reviews, but I have to write one here even though it's been 5 years since I've played this. When I had a VR headset in 2021 on a HP Reverb G2, this is one of the few games I remember playing. It was by far the most fun, and I think about buying a gaming desktop and VR headset again just to experience it again. This is the type of game that feels like someone developed in their basement out of pure imagination lol, and I mean that as the highest compliment. The movement + flying + scale create this kind of freedom that I have never really found in any other game honestly. This was just such an amazing game that only Superhot and Duck Hunt came close to in terms of originality, so if you have stumbled across this store page and see this review, I highly recommend purchasing it! It is such an underrated gem that rarely gets talked about!!