Quest 2 In Death Review - Is the Unchained Edition the Best Archery Game on This VR Headset?

The game looks amazing!

Hey Andy ... very clear and fluid review... good job as always.

First giveaway. This is B I G. We will all remember this day when you will eventually be giving away hundreds of dollars. Keep up the great work!

this guy should have 100k+ subs

Already got the game, so no # from me. Just wanted to stop by and appreciate your vids. Very nice content so far! Thank you :)

I just bought it off the sale last weekend because I wanted to have this run natively on my Quest (1) after having dumped lots of hours into the original version from Sólfar Studios on PCVR (well, that's Q1 with VD in my case). Interesting things to notice:
- I feel the PC version is a lot harder. I get killed there so easily and I've only managed to reach the first boss area (not even seeing him at all) just once, but on my first run on Unchained, I managed to get there and even have full health. Of course, without all the progess achievements, so there are no harder enemies like the wraiths near the pit portals or harder versions of knights and monks, but anyway I think the enemies do react slower in Unchained and give you more time which is pleasant, but I also do like having to crack the nut in the original version - I'd like to have that as "hard mode" in Unchained actually.
- The shield gets pulled with the off hand grip button whereas it was the trigger in the original game. This gets me off guard ever so often and I'd really like to be able to switch the mapping to the original one.
- The teleport shard changed - totally. I do love this now for evading, but it totally lost its precision when you managed to learn how to use it in the original version. I'd love to see the old mode added as well with the trigger pressed additionally and an option to choose which is the default mode.
- As a Q1 user, I love to see how far you can see on Q2 and it seems to be brighter as well, more like the original PC version. I wish they'd change the lighting at least on Q1, but that probably wouldn't look good with the shorter view distance which probably is needed dur to hardware limitation
- Unchained added the save state to the shop areas which is great! That makes the game more suitable for shorter sessions

Anyway, it's such a great game to have and I highly recommend it - and I even do like to play the original one still as well, so I don't feel like having paid twice for the same thing. Was well worth it!

I wish there was a sword game like this.

In Death is a great game not for its VR technicalities even though it has excellent bow and arrow mechanics but because it's top notch Rogue Lite mechanics, deserves a place in the Rogue lite pantheon of gaming. The only thing that is really lacking is the music.

But does it stand up as a great FPS?