Stargaze

Wanna feeling yourself like those old long beard wizard sitting at the top of tower (in this case outer dimension) and fidget around the god's know what arcane equipment with enormous telescope? This game given you just that experience, You almost felt like Merlin (From Sword in the Stone movie). As for what you'll get here aside a fun roll play? Well, A very unique and beautiful art style. This game is a semi 2.5D rigging animation with 3D models which are done very superb in detail. Even by original price tag, The game still worth it, So giving it a spin and for once in every while. Pretend yourself a busy wizard.

Wow, instead of actually seeing these locations you have to look at them through a screen. we are already looking through our VR screen but that's not enough for this game, we need to look through an in game screen to see the planets/things we are observing

Less than 2 hours of actual game play (for me). My game time shows higher as the game locked up due to me taking my VR headset off and having to redo the first three planets. Note: the save game happens when you go back to the main menu and doesn't have auto-save along the way. Most of the puzzles are fairly easy and if not, it is easy enough to stumble across the solution just by moving the screen around until something happens. I was only frustrated once on the water ring planet trying to get the vase(?) around the water stream and it kept breaking. Other than that, I enjoyed solving the puzzles and taking the pictures. Note: some pictures can't be taken until the planet is restored. Also note, that make sure you use the quill to take the text from the top of the screen and place it in the journal. I missed two entries not paying attention to that. To me, the only negatives are the short game time and the narrator voice can be a bit annoying. I got it on good sale, and I enjoyed it for the price I paid.

hidden gem

Promising game marred by tricky and fiddly controls. After a half hour of playing it on my Quest 3 I exited and it didn't save it and wanted me to repeat the whole opening tutorial which is where I bowed out. It's also annoying that you are rooted in one spot and cant just flip your thumbstick to change the direction you're facing. I want to be able to see what is behind me when I'm sitting on the sofa even if there is just a wall there. The game wasn't for me, though I liked the idea. It just needed more work so the controls would feel more fluid.

This game should be a mobile title. It doesn't benefit in any way from VR and a mouse or your finger on the phone screen would be much better than trying to awkardly control everything by waving your hands around while sitting in front of a flat screen that's pretending to be a telescope. Another thing: probably even developers didn't know what they wanted to make. Is it sci-fi? Is it fantasy? Is it esoteric? Comedy? Social commentary? It's all of that and nothing at the same time. It's as if you tried to make a jigsaw puzzle out of pieces from different sets. But the worst part are the "puzzles". They can hardly be even called that because puzzles are supposed to follow some logic and there is none. Sometimes you have to aim the reticle directly at some element, sometimes it just has to be just partially visible. Most of the time gameplay revolves around aligning two elements one in front of another, but good luck trying to guess which ones. Yes, sometimes you get clues, but only... [b]after[/b] you solved the riddle! Yes, the clues are given as rewards for solving the related puzzle. Just... ugh.