Windlands (PSVR) – can you keep your lunch down?
If you’re confident you can play VR games without feeling sick this parkour-filled platformer will put you to the ultimate test.
Later this afternoon our review for Resident Evil 7 will go live, the first big name release to have PlayStation VR support for the entire game. For us, PlayStation VR (PSVR) was one of the highlights of 2016; a fully-functioning, elegantly-designed, virtual reality headset that offers a comparable experience to the PC on a normal console. It’s expensive, but not nearly as much as PC headsets and it had a better launch line-up of games than any modern console. We are concerned that there seems to be worryingly few games scheduled for this year, but so far most of the best ones have been indie titles that we only find out about at the last minute. Like this one.
In actual fact Windlands was released last October, but the developer sent round a reminder email last week to try and attract more attention for it; since it seems we weren’t the only ones to be oblivious to its existence. Given how bad the PlayStation Store is at highlighting smaller releases it’s not hard to see why it slipped under the radar. Although given how many warnings it has about nausea, and how you should only play for five minutes at a time if you’re not used to VR, we’re not sure it was necessarily the best idea to release it just a couple of weeks after the PSVR’s launch.
At that time there would’ve been few console gamers that had built up any immunity to moving around in VR in the same way they do in a normal action game. But now that everyone’s had a bit of time to acclimatise, a VR platformer featuring free running and Bionic Commando-style grappling hooks seems a lot more viable.
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Source: Metro UK