Skydance's BEHEMOTH

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Behemoth hits like an epic fifth or sixth gen action-adventure game. Obviously it's not the same - not in the least because those titles are mostly played from the third person perspective - but I found myself coming out the other end with a similar sense of satisfaction as I got from the likes of Soul Reaver or Prince of Persia. The game is ultimately fairly linear. There's only really the one path which you follow through all its twists and turns, with any side paths either leading to the same place or having some collectibles or bonus resources for upgrades. Somehow, in spite of this, it manages to never feel cramped except for where it's meant to - you're almost always surrounded by snow-covered mountains, vast caverns, or crumbling ruins, and occasionally the Behemoths themselves, which are all fairly spectacular to look at and make the world feel huge. Combat makes up a decent chunk of the game, and it takes a little getting used to. It isn't bad, but it just feels a little disconnected. Weapons try to simulate weight but ultimately feel just a bit laggy, and if you get too close the enemies can push your hands around and interfere with your flow. But when you do get used to it the experience becomes extremely satisfying; save maybe a couple of annoying boss mechanics. Fair warning, though, I never did figure out the throwing system beyond the tutorial. Puzzling of course makes up another good chunk of the game. Jumping puzzles thankfully didn't carry across from the predecessors, but there's plenty of climbing, swinging, a bit of dashing, and some good old fashioned box dragging puzzles. A novel (so far as I know) rope mechanic adds an interesting new aspect to both traversal and puzzling which sets it apart from most of what I've played previously, and outside of a little jank descending it's handled extremely well. The Behemoths of course represent a huge puzzle unto themselves, and there's quite the feeling to solving them; even if little bits don't always make sense. It isn't a perfect experience, though. There's a handful of graphic issues which don't affect gameplay but mess with the polish - a floating torch or square-cut snow here or there, a handful of bizarrely low resolution textures, some narrow gaps in cave walls that show the bright sky box, and a couple instances of overlapping geometry leading to Z fighting. The aforementioned combat issues take time to come to grips with, along with a delay while using snap turning (I recommend smooth if you can handle it) and forced instances of slow smooth turning while climbing. The biggest issues, though, are the tendency to grab weapons instead of handholds and some marked handhold areas simply not working at all, both of which can work separately and in tandem to cause a lot of needless frustration when you wind up falling. Still, in spite of those issues, I came away at the end of each session feeling like I'd accomplished something and had a good time doing it. Outside of two collectibles hidden such that really the only way to find them is luck and one zone with a collectible out of order, even the optional extras were satisfying - though I don't much care for an achievement which can be locked out early, including for NG+. But I plan on a fresh playthrough when I finally get a new headset anyway so maybe that's just whining, and that I'm looking forward to it really speaks to my opinion of the game in general. NB The game can fail to detect your headset if you launch via the SteamVR interface, which will leave you staring at a black screen while an error shows on your monitor. I don't pretend to know why - I've never seen this from anything else. Launching from the regular Steam interface works fine, even if you access that via the SteamVR monitor view.

Why have the developers no idea about locomotion... One shall NEVER use the direction where Im looking at for the direction of movement. Moving around and looking around are always two different things, in real life too. Soo much nausea because they have hard-coded the head-direction to the movement direction. Did the devs ever play VR before. Its almost impossible to evade during a fight because you have to look away from what you are running from.. great so I cant tell where it is. Ive died countless times already just because I couldnt get away because your charater can only run forward and also the dash is useless if you go backwards... The next mechanic that is flawed is that pulling of objects, where you have to build up tension until it pops. thats just annoying and badly implemented. The collision detection is not fast enough for really fast movements because the physics engine does not run often enough. so you have to do it slowly... in combat.. yikes. and the graphics look a little outdated, like Just Cause 3 aera. ChatGPT told me thats because it must run on standalone headsets aswell. What do I have a beefy GPU for

I like the world and the concept but that's where it ends for me. I've done a couple of boss fights but it's just to clunky for me. It just feels like a step back compared to their other titles gameplay wise

VR if it was actually good, plus hyperkyphosis maxxing

ВАУ, меня еще никак не удивляли vr игры как эта. анимации, боевка, парирования, сражения а так же эпичные битвы с бегемотами. все на высоте и я в восторге. анимация рук так вообще самая лучшая я думаю из всех игр

I just flat out did not enjoy this game, for a few simple reasons. The game's marketing is heavily focused on the Behemoth parts of...Skydance's Behemoth. Which is why I bought the game, climbing all over big monsters in VR sounded like my kind of party. But after getting through the first Behemoth fight, I bounced off this hard. The big behemoth fights were sluggish, drawn out, and featured a bunch of stupid little human adds to make the fight that much more annoying, but I'll get to that. Swinging feels slow and lurches, and the path to climb the behemoth for the big boss fight is simple and straightforward. Which isn't very fun. But what REALLY killed my excitement for this game was the intro. It sets up the characters and the setting just fine, but why is most of a game about climbing large monsters ACTUALLY about boring fights with small packs of human enemies? Obviously to pad the run time out, but that sucks. There's already a lot of better melee combat games in VR, so I feel very little excitement playing a worse melee fighter, especially when it just wants you to spam the rage power and blow through the fights. It's not fun, and it took away a lot of time, effort, and focus that could have been directed at the more interesting parts of the game. Also there are puzzles, but tbh they are less "Use your brain" puzzles and more "Put the heavy box on the switch" so...basically not puzzles at all, more like video game busy work. I~ wanted to like Behemoth, it's just unfortunate that it was about 20% of the game I was expecting and 80% Blade and Sorcery: ♥♥♥♥ Edition.