Chainless

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Chainless is a compact virtual reality action experience that builds almost everything around movement, momentum, and the unusual pleasure of swinging through an environment using chains. Developed and published by Albert MN, the game embraces the experimental spirit of early room-scale VR and turns a very simple concept into an arcade-style challenge. Instead of overwhelming the player with complicated systems or a lengthy narrative, it concentrates on escaping, staying alive, maintaining momentum, and traveling as far as possible without making a costly mistake. The defining mechanic involves grabbing chains and using them to swing through the environment. It sounds straightforward, but successfully linking one swing into another requires surprisingly careful timing. Players need to judge distance, understand momentum, release at the correct moment, and quickly locate another chain before gravity brings the run to an abrupt conclusion. Early attempts can feel awkward as the physics take some getting used to, but improvement is noticeable. Eventually, movements that initially require conscious thought begin to feel much more natural, producing an enjoyable rhythm of grabbing, swi…

Chainless is a strange little VR game built around one main idea, swinging through a city using floating chains while trying to escape from prison. I play from a first person view and use the motion controls to grab onto the chains and pull myself around the environment. The goal is simple enough, but the movement makes it feel very different from a normal platformer. I am constantly trying to judge where I should swing next, how much momentum I have and whether I can make it to the next point without falling. The swinging is easily the best thing about the game for me. When I get the movement right, there is a really satisfying feeling of building momentum and launching myself towards the next obstacle. It can almost feel like I am actually swinging through the city rather than controlling a normal character. The game also uses randomly generated environments, so the route changes between runs instead of giving me exactly the same layout every time. That works well with the simple escape idea because I am always reacting to what appears in front of me. I also like that Chainless keeps the basic objective very clear. I am not dealing with a complicated story or a huge collection …

Игра 'Chainless' - это глоток свежего воздуха в жанре платформеров. Инновационная система передвижения, основанная на цепях, позволяет почувствовать себя настоящим акробатом, парящим над уровнями. Механика требует привыкания, но когда освоишься, получаешь невероятное удовольствие от динамичных прыжков и захватывающих полетов. Графика выполнена в приятном минималистичном стиле, не отвлекающем от геймплея. Саундтрек отлично дополняет атмосферу, усиливая чувство скорости и азарта. Уровни хорошо продуманы и сложны, но всегда ощущаются честными – любая ошибка, как правило, результат неверного расчета, а не несправедливости игры. Боссы – отдельная тема для разговора. Каждый из них представляет собой уникальную задачу, требующую не только ловкости, но и стратегического мышления. Победа над ними дарит ощущение настоящего триумфа. Несмотря на сложность, 'Chainless' не вызывает чувства разочарования. Игра мотивирует становиться лучше, экспериментировать с тактиками и оттачивать навыки. Рекомендую всем любителям хардкорных платформеров, ищущим что-то новое и оригинальное. Это действительно игра, которая заставляет почувствовать себя свободным.

"Chainless" is a lame VR tech demo where you swing on chains through a low poly Unity Asset Store town asset, and discover that VR exclusivity does not make asset flips any better. It's a pointless little tech demo, and nobody likes asset flips. The game graphics look better than you might expect (even if it is just one of the low poly town assets they ripped off), but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $5 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is …

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