The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition

русский отвратительный, а за игру спасибо

Very good game imo, Very replayable, looks cool, gameplay and class variation is nice

I just did not enjoy it. Flat out. I think for a roguelike it doesn't do Anything particularly interesting with the genre's staples. Mostly just regurgitating the same "Pick three" quirks that can be seen elsewhere. Where it excels is undeniably the gun combat, it feels good and snappy. But I personally just didn't like the enemies, or environments, or story, or frankly the implements provided from what I tried. The first area being a fog dense zone where you can barely see enemies is weird and kinda cruel for no good reason. Plus learning there's only 3 bosses in the game informed that I wouldn't get much enjoyment once I cleared even the first. It's a real shame, if the game was a linear narrative with these guns I would've 100% been so down to play it. But ultimately after doing a handful of runs I just felt uninterested and dismissive. I look forward to future VR games from the dev, but this one was a miss for me.

Easily the best rogue-like game I've played on VR. shooting feels good, there's a lot of variety with weapons, and enemies. I'm 6 hours in and I haven't unlocked all the classes, let alone all the upgrades - there's a significant amount of stuff to do here, it's not a 4 hour experience like a lot of VR games.

takes a second to get used to but a lot of fun when you realize what the heck is going on around here

It's a difficult recommend and I admit I should play more to be sure, and maybe I'll play more, I can't tell, but from what little I've seen, some core aspects of this game fell unfinished and in a way you can tell the game is just abandoned and won't be refined or patched at all. It's a really neat concept of a game and the gunplay feels really tight and satisfying, but it just feels like early access. If you like arcade shooters and rogue-like gameplay loops, I say get it on sale. I had it on my wishlist for a year before it finally went on sale, and I'm glad I didn't pay full price, because I was tempted based on some youtube reviews. I don't know why, but I didn't expect it to be so arcade-y. I thought it would be more open, longer levels where exploration is a focus. That's kind of the narrative theme of the game, from what I can understand. The narrative isn't concrete, but it seems you go into this alternate dimension to try and farm souls from fallen soldiers, like you're in purgatory or something. So, while I didn't expect an open-world, I did expect more open environments. What it actually is is an arcade arena shooter. The levels are quite small and have a finite number of enemies. Once all the enemies are dead, you have as much time and peace as you want to find all the chests and collectibles in the arena. It's not bad and is a nice breather to be able to rest and loot in peace, it's just more like busy work than exploration and I can see it feeling tedious to move around the map to collect chests I already know are there at the end of a level. The arenas are really nicely designed, with lots of cover and verticality, thought you're usually pushed down a very linear path forward. Speaking of movement, there's no analogue control to smooth locomotion. It's full-speed or not. This makes fine-tuning positioning really difficult as well as making movement not feel very immersive. If I get immersed, it just takes one step to literally jerk me out of my immersion. There needs to be some acceleration to movement, at the very least, if there is no analogue input. But this highlights one of the worst core issues: it is painfully obvious this was originally meant to be a teleport-only game. Maybe they realized that with such fast-paced enemies, teleporting all the time would be too much for a frantic player to wrap their head around, which is true. So, they slapped joystick movement on, but never worked on it beyond a cursory pass. But this creates a clash, where teleport is still required and you have to switch back and forth between movement styles to move quick and then fine-tune, but the fine-tuning isn't very fine. It works, but it just doesn't feel like they thought it all the way through. Collision is beyond borked. It was a really bad look to be walking into the hub world for the very first time and running into a non-sensical invisible wall directly in the middle of the obvious pathway, just 10 steps into the game. And there are mysterious invisible walls all over the place. Sometimes you can shoot through a small gap, sometimes you can't. What's really wild is just how many invisible walls that seem more like oversight than anything else I encountered in just an hour of play. I was constantly getting stopped in my tracks and feeling like I was stuck on invisible hooks; it's wild. Performance-wise, it looks great and runs great. No hiccups at all at 120Hz on Quest3 with Virtual Desktop. (Specs say Linux, but I run VR under Win11; just writing the review on Linux.) A big reason for being so performant is the level design as smaller arenas, kind of like Compound VR. I doubt this game had more than a cursory glance for QA. But there is a lot of potential if this is your kind of jam.