it's a heavily Metroid-inspired game. Not the greatest, but compared to the usual meager offerings we get in VR, it's pretty damn solid and good. Brainlink is the morphball, most creatures look similar to Metroid designs. Just really mostly missing vertical exploration through jumping - but that's not quite realistic and more queasy than usual in VR, so we only got swimming parts...
So the look of the environments can get repetitive. Otherwise, the game stays pretty fresh all the way through. Room layouts change, enemies change, and each area is pretty expansive with plenty of side rooms to explore. You can tackle different areas in whatever order you want once you get through the first area.
This is NOT an immersive sim. There's no emergent gameplay and multiple solutions to problems, and you can't even move and stack boxes. And there's no 0451 keycode.
Good points (especially 0451). My thinking was that your choice between different upgrades and weapons combined with the exploration would merit the comparison. I can certainly see what you mean though. As always the definition of genre is kind of subjective.
@@RealityRemake Thank you for a polite response :) I'm an immersive sim affictionado, I played almost all of them. I would love this game to be an immersive sim, but it's really not - the choice of different upgrades and weapons and exploration is in no way exclusive or characteristic of the immersive sim genre - these two aspects are not enough to call the game immersive sim as it's missing critical features of this genre, which I enumerated in my previous comment. If you search the internet you'll see that a much more common (and warranted) genre association is metroidvania.
@@RealityRemake I replied but the response seems to have been lost or removed by youtube. Anyways, thanks for a polite reply :) This game is more of a metroidvania than an immersive sim, the elements you mentioned are so universal that they are not associated exlusively with immersive sim game so they do not warrant ascribing that genre to Genotype.
it's a heavily Metroid-inspired game. Not the greatest, but compared to the usual meager offerings we get in VR, it's pretty damn solid and good. Brainlink is the morphball, most creatures look similar to Metroid designs. Just really mostly missing vertical exploration through jumping - but that's not quite realistic and more queasy than usual in VR, so we only got swimming parts...
A non roguelike non sandbox VR game that's this solid throughout is strangely such a rarity.
Looks decent 👌 how many hours roughly ?
Ah, I should have included that in the review! It took about 8 hours to complete the game.
it looks a bit linear can you explore, does it get repetitive?
So the look of the environments can get repetitive. Otherwise, the game stays pretty fresh all the way through. Room layouts change, enemies change, and each area is pretty expansive with plenty of side rooms to explore. You can tackle different areas in whatever order you want once you get through the first area.
Does this game use dynamic foveated rendering or eye tracking?
I don't think so. If it did I never noticed.
There was a patch today and it looks way better.
@@dagripper77 Awesome! The devs really keep making this game better and better
This is NOT an immersive sim. There's no emergent gameplay and multiple solutions to problems, and you can't even move and stack boxes. And there's no 0451 keycode.
Good points (especially 0451). My thinking was that your choice between different upgrades and weapons combined with the exploration would merit the comparison. I can certainly see what you mean though. As always the definition of genre is kind of subjective.
@@RealityRemake Thank you for a polite response :) I'm an immersive sim affictionado, I played almost all of them. I would love this game to be an immersive sim, but it's really not - the choice of different upgrades and weapons and exploration is in no way exclusive or characteristic of the immersive sim genre - these two aspects are not enough to call the game immersive sim as it's missing critical features of this genre, which I enumerated in my previous comment.
If you search the internet you'll see that a much more common (and warranted) genre association is metroidvania.
@@RealityRemake I replied but the response seems to have been lost or removed by youtube. Anyways, thanks for a polite reply :) This game is more of a metroidvania than an immersive sim, the elements you mentioned are so universal that they are not associated exlusively with immersive sim game so they do not warrant ascribing that genre to Genotype.
Immersive sims revolve around combat?.....ehhh.