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Blood & Truth Review Thread
- Thread starter Loudninja
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I've been itching to play something new in VR and this looks to fit the bill. I'll pick it up this weekend.
Lol Videochums really didn't enjoy it haha.
I'm close to finishing Days Gone so I may pick this up in a week or two. How long is it supposed to be?
Edit: ah, 5-8 hours. Not bad. A bit more than Deracine. Thanks!
I'm close to finishing Days Gone so I may pick this up in a week or two. How long is it supposed to be?
Edit: ah, 5-8 hours. Not bad. A bit more than Deracine. Thanks!
I thought it was...pretty OK. But very uninspired compared to other VR shooters.
The thing is, there are a lot of shooters on VR. And since inception, there've been a lot of really amazing, innovative experiences.
Compared to games like Firewall: Zero, Robo Recall, Killing Floor VR, even something like Arizona Sunshine, Blood & Truth seems REALLY restrictive and one-note. It's not only that it's on rails, it's also the fact that you can't turn, only strafe, that you can't go backwards, can't even play standing up. It feels decidedly "last-gen", like PSVR launch title that still hasn't figured out how to really make use of VR and the controllers.
It tries to compensate with a lot of spectacle and story, which is a nice change of pace for VR andI feel like that's the reason most people will have fun with it. It's one of the first real spectacle shooters with huge setpieces. The thing is, you are not ever moving yourself through the spectacle, you are always weirdly gliding along without any hard motions or the character ever turning his head. The spectacle is cool but restrictive, the shooting is extremely uninspired and has been done better in most VR shooters I've played. Saving grace is that there is a lot to do other than shooting - climbing around, interacting with items, opening locks etc. The game only kinda turned sour for me when it presented me with nothing but shooting sequence afte rshooting sequence towards the end. Because, ironically the shooting in this Rail-Shooter is by far the worst aspect.
The thing is, there are a lot of shooters on VR. And since inception, there've been a lot of really amazing, innovative experiences.
Compared to games like Firewall: Zero, Robo Recall, Killing Floor VR, even something like Arizona Sunshine, Blood & Truth seems REALLY restrictive and one-note. It's not only that it's on rails, it's also the fact that you can't turn, only strafe, that you can't go backwards, can't even play standing up. It feels decidedly "last-gen", like PSVR launch title that still hasn't figured out how to really make use of VR and the controllers.
It tries to compensate with a lot of spectacle and story, which is a nice change of pace for VR andI feel like that's the reason most people will have fun with it. It's one of the first real spectacle shooters with huge setpieces. The thing is, you are not ever moving yourself through the spectacle, you are always weirdly gliding along without any hard motions or the character ever turning his head. The spectacle is cool but restrictive, the shooting is extremely uninspired and has been done better in most VR shooters I've played. Saving grace is that there is a lot to do other than shooting - climbing around, interacting with items, opening locks etc. The game only kinda turned sour for me when it presented me with nothing but shooting sequence afte rshooting sequence towards the end. Because, ironically the shooting in this Rail-Shooter is by far the worst aspect.
I'm not sure I get some of your complaints. What do you mean you can't turn or move your head during the spectacle moments? That seems impossible considering the very nature of the VR headset.
I strongly disagree. Like, I get what you're saying with regards to the character movement and the way everything happens in front of you, but the fact that you can be juggling ammo in one hand, tossing it up in the air, slowing time, catching the magazine in the butt of your gun, then popping off a couple of headshots is what makes this so much fun to me.
It's very interactive, just in different ways.
You can turn your head of course, but nothing is ever happening outside of the front of your face. What I meant with "you can't turn" is that the character can't turn. When you are looking straight and there is a door to your north east, he doesn't face the door and walk there, he instead keeps looking straight and just kinda glides to the North East. Because some people get motion sickness with smooth turning in VR. But the thing there isn't even any snap turning like in most of these games. Theres none at all. If the character ever has to turn 180 degrees in a cutscene or something the game fades out and fades back in with the character now looking in the right direction.
Especially in the set pieces this seems extremely weird. Not only do you not walk but glide in a steady motion as if you are Lakitu during a Mario Kart Race (to make sure that you don't get motion sickness from any kind of head bob), but your character also never, you know...turns. He runs as I described above. And if he jumps through a window from one building to another, he just calmly glides upwards, through the window, then through the other window and calmly glides down to the floor again. It doesn't feel immversive becauseit doesn't feel like you are inhabiting a body, but a weird, floating camera instead.
A lot of more intricate shooters (or, really, VR games in general) give you various options to deal with the potential motion sickness. In fact, that has become pretty much the standard. B&T doesn't give you any of those options, instead just going for the least immersive, safest option in all of those aspects, which, I thought, was kind of a bummer.
Anyone in the EU got a PR contact for this game? I sent Sony a ton of e-mails over the last few weeks but got totally stonewalled :(
Really happy it's turned out well.
London Heist was such an incredible tech demo for VR. There's just something so satisfying about shooting and manually reloading a gun in VR.
London Heist was such an incredible tech demo for VR. There's just something so satisfying about shooting and manually reloading a gun in VR.
Looks like between this and Trover I've managed to delay purchasing an Oculus Quest. For now, anyways.
Yes, yes you can, I'm switching between seat and standing the whole time. It's not ideal but a quick hold of the start button and the perspective goes back to normal
2 Hours in, if we forget 2-3 sections that feel like tech demo, everything else is amazing so far. These face animation and motion capture ! When they look in your eye and make a little head notch when you watch them during intense moment. I truly feel i'm really there, immersion wise it's top notch.
Personally I've been waiting for an on-rails shooter spectacle like this since the PSVR released.
It's nice to get all these VR games trying new and innovative things, but sometimes I just want something basic and solid.
It war pretty clear from the beggining that the game tries to put you in an over the top action movie. I was never expecting advanced movement our some hardcore FPS mechanics.
I think they nailded it.
Dan from IGN said in the comments section of the Beat Saber review they just did that they are working on it. Will be up in the next couple of days most likely.
Look at your "Purchased" section in Library (or Download List on web store). There are two extra downloads: The Art of Blood & Truth, as well as The Sound of Blood & Truth
It's a Lightgun Shooter. It's it own genre. It never was to be something like Arizona, Killing Floor or Firewall.
It's a PS4 app, but you can export the tracks to a USB drive
Eurogamer: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...p-to-the-ritchieverse-thats-filled-with-charm
"Guns and gangsters make for a silly delight in this PSVR caper."
"Have an Alka-Seltzer, Princess, and get back out there before someone gives you a rap on the beezer. Okay, I may have descended through the High Ritchieverse and struck the nineteenth century by this point but what does it matter? Blood & Truth is a lark, a caper, a nice bit of business. And if you're the kid who loved reloading, you'll be particularly happy. "
I don't know. I think they liked it.
"Guns and gangsters make for a silly delight in this PSVR caper."
"Have an Alka-Seltzer, Princess, and get back out there before someone gives you a rap on the beezer. Okay, I may have descended through the High Ritchieverse and struck the nineteenth century by this point but what does it matter? Blood & Truth is a lark, a caper, a nice bit of business. And if you're the kid who loved reloading, you'll be particularly happy. "
I don't know. I think they liked it.
The review was a good read, keep up the great work. Reviews that don't agree with the consensus are often interesting.
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IGN review helped lift it back up to 81 again on MC. Seems like 80+ is secured at this point with reviews slowing down.
We got another one! Thank you PS heads for doling the dice on VR. Seriously unique experiences and can't wait till the tech catches up and it's just as clear as TV gaming.