While I'm hardly a rhythm game buff, I do like them. Maybe I won't pull off a full combo on Through the Fire and Flames, and god forbid how ridiculous I'd look playing Dance Dance Revolution, but stuff like Rez, Parappa the Rapper, Rhythm Heaven, Space Channel 5, Osu, Electroplankton and that kind of stuff is right up my alley. Maybe a better way to put it, is that I absolutely adore games that mix gameplay with music to achieve that almost synesthesic connection between those two elements.
Now, Beat Saber is a game I've been aware of for a while. It's arguably the most popular VR game out there, and for a pretty good reason: it's simply amazing. If you don't know what it's about, take a look:
The gist of it is this: you have two differently-colored lightsabers, and you gotta cut in half blocks that come at you at the beat of the music. It's a very easy concept to understand, and you really don't do anything else during the game, but words cannot describe how amazing of an experience it is.
The most key element of Beat Saber, in my opinion, is that from the very first moment you put the headset on you feel like a badass. Even at first when I could only finish stages on normal, I never felt bad at the game, which only encourages you to keep playing and getting better because you're having fun. Contrasting this with my experience with OsuMania where at first I could barely finish the easiest stages (which are also pretty damn boring), it's simply night and day. It's also a rhythm game that doesn't use any buttons. This makes it extremely accessible to everyone regardless of their experience with videogames and why Beat Saber is just a good showcase (nothing to possibly give you motion sickness as well) for people who haven't tried VR yet.
It's also so fucking addictive. Ever since getting it I've been pretty much playing it daily and I quite literally can't stop. It just feels so good to slash these blocks with your own lightsabers, dodge the walls and do silly poses whenever you have some time to rest mid-song. The only downside I can think of is that on the PSVR version you can't play custom songs so you're limited to the official songs, which isn't much of a problem for me as I dig pretty much all of them, but stuff like the Rasputin song from above is not possible. Hopefully Beat Games will find a way to implement something like an automapper that creates a level automatically from your own music, but I'm not expecting it at all.
Still, no matter the platform it's an amazing game. The $30 pricetag might be "steep" considering it literally has never gone on sale, but it's absolutely worth it.
Now, Beat Saber is a game I've been aware of for a while. It's arguably the most popular VR game out there, and for a pretty good reason: it's simply amazing. If you don't know what it's about, take a look:
The gist of it is this: you have two differently-colored lightsabers, and you gotta cut in half blocks that come at you at the beat of the music. It's a very easy concept to understand, and you really don't do anything else during the game, but words cannot describe how amazing of an experience it is.
The most key element of Beat Saber, in my opinion, is that from the very first moment you put the headset on you feel like a badass. Even at first when I could only finish stages on normal, I never felt bad at the game, which only encourages you to keep playing and getting better because you're having fun. Contrasting this with my experience with OsuMania where at first I could barely finish the easiest stages (which are also pretty damn boring), it's simply night and day. It's also a rhythm game that doesn't use any buttons. This makes it extremely accessible to everyone regardless of their experience with videogames and why Beat Saber is just a good showcase (nothing to possibly give you motion sickness as well) for people who haven't tried VR yet.
It's also so fucking addictive. Ever since getting it I've been pretty much playing it daily and I quite literally can't stop. It just feels so good to slash these blocks with your own lightsabers, dodge the walls and do silly poses whenever you have some time to rest mid-song. The only downside I can think of is that on the PSVR version you can't play custom songs so you're limited to the official songs, which isn't much of a problem for me as I dig pretty much all of them, but stuff like the Rasputin song from above is not possible. Hopefully Beat Games will find a way to implement something like an automapper that creates a level automatically from your own music, but I'm not expecting it at all.
Still, no matter the platform it's an amazing game. The $30 pricetag might be "steep" considering it literally has never gone on sale, but it's absolutely worth it.
