Twilight Path

Небольшая, простенькая головоломка, про шастанье духа в китайском загробном мире. Нормуль. Обещали продолжение.

Un excellent jeu de puzzles à la 1ère personne en VR dans la même lignée que leur précèdent jeu FORM, cette fois-ci dans un royaume fantastique proche de l'au-delà avec une direction artistique d'inspiration asiatique & une petite aventure narrative en plus. On y retrouve ici les même types de casse-têtes/puzzles statique façon The Room & co déjà présent dans FORM en encore plus simplifiés il semblerai. Vu sa courte durée de vie d'une heure & demi comme son prédécesseur, il sera à faire d'une traite.. Par contre, petit soucis au niveau des contrôles sur celui-ci qui rends certaines manipulations beaucoup plus compliquées que prévu... (qui d'après le forum semble commun au moins aux manettes Vive & Index) Les 'points de visé' & mains semblent décalés de 45° voir 90° la plupart du temps, ça rend les puzzles de suivi de ligne très récalcitrants... De même, je n'ai pas vu l'intérêt de devoir rapprocher le symbole Yin/Yang avec les mains à chaque fois qu'on veut viser quelque chose, ce qui devient vite répétitif... (sous HTC Vive Pro 2)

Graphics are ok, as you can tell from the screenshots, especially for when the game was made. I think the developers' goal with this game was just to introduce people to looking at stuff in VR and basic interaction with your VR controllers with items in the world. There there is no real locomotion of the kind where you can choose where to go next - there's just a teleport between fixed nodes on a one-way path as you solve "puzzles". I think this game might be suitable for children or just to introduce your non-VR-gaming friends to the novelty of VR. If the game had been billed that way, I would have given it a thumbs up, or more likely, just not bought it. However, I feel like I was led to believe it be more. After all the Steam page description says "Explore a gorgeous and vibrant world". I feel the word "explore" here is deceptive advertising, given that you are on a very rigid fixed linear path of nodes in the world. As far as any immersive or explorative experience, the game is sorely lacking due this. However. what kills it for me are the very boring and simple puzzles. Based on the achievements I got in my 1.2 hours of gameplay, I think I was one or two puzzles from the end, when my controller batteries ran out and I had to quit. After taking off my headset, and thinking about it for a moment, I realized the only reason I would go back into the game would be for the mental satisfaction of completing something I started, and not because I was eager to explore or solve puzzles in this world based on what exploration and puzzle solving I had already experienced. I decided my time would be better spent articulating how I felt and warning other people off by writing a steam review.

weird mechanic but reasonably magical

Enchanting and charming. The puzzles are mild and it's point to point on rails. But the entire experience was thoroughly enjoyable and beautiful to behold. Going to keep my eye on this developer after this game and Form.

A bit dated, but still enjoyable 1.5 hour long Asia-themed VR entertainment with a few light puzzles.

Im at the start of chapter 3. the game is beautiful with wonderful music and flawless game-play. I love the approach to movement with magical teleportation. Wow, I didnt know it was an old game. plays wonderfully new with my pcl.

If it was 2016 when I first got my headset, this would be great. VR has just come too far for this. Back in the day, this could have been a great game to throw in the mix when demoing VR to new users, but at least with Index controllers, certain things felt kinda janky. Tracing the paths didn't work well half the time, and I had to use both hands, one after the other, to catch it after it lost tracking. The puzzles are all really simple and basic, which is fine. The environments are huge, which made me feel really disconnected from the game. I'm not sure how I found out about this game, or why it was even on my wishlist, but it was on a huge sale, so I bought it. I remember playing FORM a long time ago, probably 2017 when it came out, and I remember it was great. I'd have to go back and compare it today to really be fair, but from memory, this game isn't as good. Lots of older games, flat and VR, stand the test of time, but I don't think this one does.