The Curious Study of Dr. Blackwood: A VR Tech Demo

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"The Curious Study of Dr. Blackwood: A VR Tech Demo" is, as the developers blatantly admit, not a full proper game. But they published it anyway, because I guess what's good for the developers ego is much more important than delivering full, high quality games to gamers. Gamers don't matter, only developers? Well, gamers are the ones who write the reviews. And we do care about games that are made to be games for gamers. What do you do in the game? Nothing... really. Because it's barely a game, and is more of a "sandbox" tech demo, all you do is look around and poke around and maybe find a couple of easter eggs. This game looks a lot better visually than the actual gameplay. It could be the developer purchased high-end assets (no proof of that), or somehow managed to create great-looking assets while delivering a mediocre game, in this case it could be either... but there's no hard proof this is an asset flip. But as always, ethics of asset flipping aside (whether this is one or not), what matters is the quality of the game, and this has all the same low qualities that we expect from asset flip shovelware. It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to unders…

Игра «The Curious Study of Dr. Blackwood: A VR Tech Demo» предлагает захватывающее погружение в виртуальную лабораторию, где игрок исследует загадочные эксперименты. Графика и интерактивность впечатляют: каждое движение, взаимодействие с объектами и динамичные последствия действий создают ощущение полной свободы. Однако это техническая демонстрация, поэтому сюжет и геймплей остаются поверхностными. Основной акцент сделан на проверке VR-технологий — и тут разработчикам удалось добиться высокого уровня погружения. Для любителей экспериментов с VR — отличный выбор, но полноценной игры от этого пока не получится.

The idea is good, but it gets slower as you continue to explore the room, causing lagging and after images when moving the hands. The mechanics are good but the movement isn't smooth and kept getting stuck on many places that clearly had enough room to pass. Guess it's good for a free trial, but wouldn't be willing to pay for a game if not fixed the issues mentioned.

it was ok. kinda buggy. kinda surprised this came out in '19 not '15 tho...

Even though this tech demo is quite old now, it's still quite pretty. There isn't a lot to do besides have a nose around and listen to some developer voice clips where they are getting very excited about the possibilities of VR. The interactions haven't aged too badly compared to other older tech demos and experiences but it's definitely just something to put on, look around and then forget about again. It's free and won't take up much of your time so why not, but equally, you aren't missing out on anything mind-blowing if you decide to skip it.