Overall, the game is pretty enjoyable, it does have a lot of weirdly and badly design things which I'll get into in a bit, I got this game on sale after eyeing it out for a while, and I thought it was going to be a lot different than it is, it's a stage based game, the maps are really small, you can walk from edge to edge in like 10-15 seconds, and the enemies notice you and attack you the instant you enter their line of sight, which wouldn't be much of an issue if you could move, but this game does something I haven't seen any other VR shooter do, and it's hinder your movement speed based on how you hold your weapon.
MOVEMENT:
If you aren't holding any weapons, you move at a medium to fast walking pace, if you grab a weapon in your hand, your movement speed slows down, if you grab a weapon with both hands, it decreases even more, and if you get close to what you would consider aiming down sights, you're pretty much walking at crawling speed, which means you cannot dodge, move to cover or peek through corners because you're going so extremely slow, the enemies can't miss you. If you want to peek a corner you have to lower your weapon, or even release one hand from it, peek, and then aim and shoot, because if you're aiming while you peek, you're going so slow, the enemies instantly see you and can shoot and hit you before your eyes leave the cover.
INVENTORY:
Another thing I really dislike is the inventory, it's a belt that's attached to your waist that overall functions alright, you have an ammo pouch where you store the magazines for the weapons you carry, and depending on your class you get different inventory slots to carry grenades, keys, tools, or whatever other equipment you can find, you also get an enchantment clip, where you can carry the "Enchantments" that's basically a weird futuristic looking gun model that does magic stuff, the problem with this pouch, is that when you move it lags behind you, and I don't mean a little, it flies around you while you move so much that it literally makes it impossible to grab anything from it while you move, so you can forget about reloading while you're moving because it's jerking around so much it's impossible, furthermore the actual interactibility of the belt doesn't match up with it's movement, so even if you manage to grab something from a pouch mid-movement, you're just gonna grab something from a different one than the one your hand is on. And on top of jerking around, it doesn't follow you when you turn as you would expect it to do, when you turn, either using your body or the snap/smooth turning control in game, the pouch stays where it is and doesn't turn with you until you reach a certain threshold and it suddenly jumps around you to a new position, once again making it incredibly awkward to grab stuff from in hasty situations.
WEAPON HANDLING:
The weapons in this game have the usual artificial VR weight added to them, so if you move your weapon around it will lag behind your hand and then oscilate back and forth until it stops where your hand actually is, this changes depending on the weapon you use (longer ones weigh more) and can be reduced if you grab the weapon with both hands, comming from H3VR, the weapons here feel a bit clunky, they're far too "heavy" in many cases, and if you add the movement debuff you get while holding a weapon with both hands, it ends up feeling a bit awkward to walk around with a weapon on just one hand, and then seeing an enemy and having to wait for the weapon to get to the place your hand is so you can grab it with the other properly, overall making it feel overly clunky for no real reason.
The gunplay itself is fine, the recoil can be absolutely uncontrollable in the automatic weapons, so you really have to limit yourself to semi or burst firing, because the weapon will just fly out of your hand, and because it still lags behind it takes like 2 or 3 seconds to be able to actually fire precisely again if you do a longer burst, but in general the weapon feel and handling is pretty alright, reloading, grabbing and racking the weapons feels very nice, and because they have weight you can throw them around and grab them with your other hand pretty easily, your second hand will actually slide on the gun depending on how you're grabbing it, so it feels awesome to handle a weapon with both hands.
Note: I did run into a problem with the "sniper" bolt action rifle and the first one, and it's if you're using a headset that uses controller tracking from the headset itself (Quest 2, 3, etc) because of how you grab a rifle like those, your hand ends up directly in front of the headset while aiming down sights, and it can and will make the tracking of your second hand very hard, which will result on your rifle not moving at all when you move your arm, making some of these more precise weapons borderline unusable, but you can bypass this issue by going into settings and changing the verticall offset of the guns (you can also change the angles and offsets for each specific gun type, which is a really cool feature) and just making the rifles sit a few centimetres on top of your actual hand, will help with this issue a lot if you're experiencing it
At first the weapons seem a little bit underpowered, but you can upgrade them with points you earn by leveling up your class, or with attachments or cards you get, my first experience with the sniper class was a bit dull, since at first the sniper doesn't even oneshot the first enemies with a body hit, which I kinda expected given how quickly their life scales overtime, and before reaching the first boss, with upgrades it couldn't even oneshot with a headshot, so in a game where enemies can see you and shoot you instantly, and will in many cases just rush you if you're behind cover, having to fight multiple enemies at close range with a bolt action rifle that kills in 2 shots, and that inly has 5 bullets can be a bit frustrating at times, and given the inmensely dense fog that every map has, you can't see anything past a few dozen metres, plus the falloff damage of the weapons also applying to the "sniper" will make the class not really be played as a sniper, but more like just a rifleman soldier with a bolt action, rather than an actual sniper. Overall the rest of the guns (and the bow) feel pretty alright, if you're unlucky with upgrades you might feel very weak as you progress through the stages, but in many cases you'll always get stuff, or you'll be able to upgrade your weapon permanently once you level up a bit and you'll in most cases be able to put up a fight regardless of how much luck you had with weapon trinkets or upgrades in the actual run.
ROGUE LIKE ASPECT:
I was a bit dissapointed at the card system for the upgrades, given I expected the cards to change up the actual gameplay a bit more, like give you powers or changes to your weapons or how they play (stuff like for example making your weapon have more firerate, shoot more bullets per shot, make the ammo behave differently, like explosive ammo or something like that) but they're seem to just be like... damage buffs, or giving you a chance of stuff happening, like, "+2 damage per shot" or "10% chance of stunning an enemy" or "if an enemy is below 5% health he insta dies" so it doesn't really feel worth it or exciting to get upgrades, and in many cases you'll just end up picking the same ones you did before because they're just better than the rest, the only interesting one I've been able to find is one that makes the weapon reload a mag on it's own once it's empty, you sill have to rack the weapon so you can't even have an endless magazine like I expected you would.
It can get repetitive really quickly, but even with it's many issues, it's a fun game to catch if on Sale, you have multiple classes you can unlock (only changes the weapon they use and some stats) but you can have fun trying out the different playstyles each weapon offers.
