It might be available in VR too, but its just a regular game. Not that I’ve ever played a VR game, but I feel its one that probably would actually suit the format
Heres my ramblings
Downloaded Superhot this weekend and played for an hour or so yesterday. Anyone played it?
It’s advertised as being a first person shooter in which time only moves when you move your character. In reality, time moves very very slowly when you’re stood still, but it doesn’t stop entirely.
It’s got a weird meta vibe to it, the plot starts with you communicating with someone online in some MS DOS style Web chat and they send you a link to a weird online shooter that they recommend, which you “download” and then play. So the shooting parts are a game within a game, if that makes any sense. Hard to describe better as I’ve only played a few levels, but it seems like the story gets weirder from this point forwards.
But in the shooting parts of the game, you’re basically free to use the right thumbstick to look around while time is paused, giving you the opportunity to suss out where your enemies are, where to move your character to, which enemy to tackle first, if there are any environmental objects you can use as melee weapons or to throw at your enemies to stun and disarm them etc.
It’s a pretty cool concept, the whole “time only moving when you move your character” thing, and transforms it from being a typical first person shooter into something more akin to a puzzle game.
I’m not saying its as good a game, but it’s the most interesting thing I’ve seen done with first person shooter mechanics since Portal (I adore Portal 1 and 2)
@Castiel is it a game you’re aware of? I feel you might appreciate that it’s done something innovative in the FPS genre. I can’t speak to how long the game is or what they do with the story, but I’ve had fun so far, based on my fairly limited time spent with it.
I think I made this post right after pissing you off about something, so at the time I felt you probably just ignored me haha. May have just been that you missed it lol
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