Lucky's Tale

The first VR platformer I played and what a wonderful experience it was. Gameplay consists of: - Story Mode: move through the levels collecting coins, diamonds and extra lives, with checkpoints - Red Coin Hunt: explore the levels more thoroughly and collect all red coins, no checkpoints - Time Trial: rush through the level and receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal, no checkpoints Most players won't find too much difficulty in the Story and Red Coin hunt, but when it comes to receiving a gold medal on all Time Trial levels, we talk 'Ghost n Goblins on the arcade'-kind of difficulty. This quickly turned the cute, fun platformer into an excruciatingly frustrated nightmare. All in all Lucky Tale VR is a fun platform game with gorgeous graphics, atmospheric music and a cute 'n nimble hero. Just forget about gold plating the time trials.

I love Super Lucky's Tale and New Super Lucky's tale. I thought I would be getting more of that. I was wrong in every way. This game starts out narrated like a children's book. It does not get better from there as the game itself is constantly loading the levels in the wrong location. It will load right under you so you look down very uncomfortably, or the orientation will change and the whole level is now loading off to your right or left and you have to fix it. Often you just can't see where you are headed. The first couple levels are very easy but what makes the other games fun is completely mission from this one.

One of those games I kinda wish steam allowed for a middle ground between yes and no. Just a "meh". But I'm leaning more no with this one. It's just an incredibly generic platformer with the singular gimmick of a VR camera. That's all it does with the VR and that's disappointing. Could of had the player able to interact with things in the game world like move sliding platforms or pull out-of-reach levers, stun enemies, block projectiles, anything... Mario galaxy managed to pull off this concept of the player being able to interact with the game world independent of the character nearly 10 years earlier. Honestly how did they not do this sort of stuff? The player here is just a pair of gloves that can kindof pet or boop Lucky but not really cus Lucky's only interaction with the hands is that his head is awkwardly pushed around by them, and he does a little animation and sometimes says hi whenever they're in his vicinity. Basically just a game for kids. And I say that as someone who greatly enjoys most of the iconic colorful mascot platformers from the n64-ps2 era that this clearly takes a lot of inspiration from, and thinks they have a lot to offer people of all ages... Mario, Sonic, Spyro, Crash, Ratchet&Clank, Jack&Daxter, even Gex for those that remember Gex exists. This just has none of the charm or substance of any of those. It feels like they took the very bare essentials of what constitutes a platformer, slapped a cute generic fox character on it, and made it a very basic proof of concept for a 3rd person vr platformer. I'd wager most teens to adults who've actually played any of those, or just other platformers in general, would find this horridly dull after the novelty of being able to physically look around wears off in the first 10 minutes. But for a small child you've just handed a piece of technology they're definitely too young to be allowed to use, this would be one of the few vr games actually suitable for them. 20$ is also just excessively overpriced for how little there is here, and for it being a 10 year old game.