Hyperbolica

Owie my head hurts

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I had fun! Play it if you want to: - learn what hyperbolic and spherical space feels like, - lose track of where everything around you is, - (Optional) go out of your way to read a bunch of random NPC dialogue just for fun (and sometimes puns) I think it's best feature is for sure the mind-bending geometry of the world - it's somehow a lot of fun to have your sense of what's physically real undermined just a little bit. I love the moments when I turn 360 degrees and then have to awkwardly realise I need to turn another 90 degrees to end up where I started. I think it was definitely much more fun because I watched the creator's devlog on YT before playing. 100% would recommend watching the devlog first - both to see if the idea of hyperbolic space is interesting to you, and to give you the context to be amazed by the geometry of the game when you play it. I also think it's more fun if you're patient and a bit of a collectaholic. Look, I don't like to miss stuff, so I often resort to basically doing a grid pattern search on a game to find all the dialogue and collectibles before I do any plot progression. What's really weird about trying to do that in this game is it's actually PHYSICALLY DIFFICULT to explore every last corner of the world. Like, every corner has 3 sub-corners you need to explore so it takes way longer, and if you try to cut across and skip a section you already explored, you might misunderstand space itself and leave a section unexplored. So you've gotta be patient, but I enjoyed that the gamespace itself was hostile towards my playstyle - it didn't made doing a grid pattern search more entertaining (it's a bit boring in any game), but because it felt like I was fighting the game to do it, I got a sense of achievement from it. You've also gotta be patient to enjoy the dialogue, because there's a lot of it. It wasn't thrilling reading small talk for 15-20 minutes while I gradually completed my grid search, but I honestly enjoyed it. Also for the collectaholics, there are hints for where to find things if you miss them, which is great because a grid search would've been less fun the 2nd time. Just a fascinating experience geometrically, wrapped in a reasonably slow-paced game that gives you a bunch of minigames/puzzles as opportunities to see how weird and fascinating living in hyperbolic/spherical space can be. 11.5hrs for me to 100% it (minus VR achievement), and I play slowly.

geometri

i'm cracking cornelius

Cool for those interested in non-Euclidean geometry and how it works, I love how decently accurate the rendering is. Main quests are simple but give you a good idea of how each world works. I recommend taking breaks though as the game warns, you mayy get a migraine if you play for too long!

gimmick doesn't really work well in vr honestly, just makes the world feel super flat