Recent reviews by Ponlets

Game is more varied than the first in environments and "kings" are fun (skully guy is annoying lol)

game is too easy though sadly so i have to knock off a few points for that

Combat: 8/10 (sword and weapons are almost as good as the first game but feel slightly more limited in how you can handle and grab them) sadly player health on "default setting" makes winning almost guarenteed
Combat(cont): first game has more enemies at one time with differing arena sizes whereas this game has differing arenas all of the same size but only 4 enemies at a time which makes the rounds rather easy even if they have armor and whatnot

Graphics: like the first game though cutting through them has less overall detail (no graphics settings what so ever) ... first game had bones and more apparent viscera inside the Gladiators that stuck out (ribs for example would appear with some guts in there) .. Blood decals disappear too quickly 7/10 sucks they dont have PC specific options

Controls: smooth locomotion is a welcome addition but removing the jump option feels wrong .. would be nice to be able to adjust player hand position so it feels more like i am holding the things at the proper angles 6/10

Arenas: the differing arenas appear to have a few configurations with bonus instagib wall or floor hazards for the gladiators (but none of them seem to effect player with exception of "thumb" on skeleton and "cannons" from the chinese tower and vines in tree) 8/10 nice additions but wish they could kill player too

i have yet to try the hardcore mode but i cant help but feel that would only fix a few of the issues and not all of them

things to add or fix:

graphics options (with a warning to the end user about performance) for PC players
control and hand placement adjustments so one can make sure things are in the right place (reasonably usable but not perfect at the moment and is lacking adjustment)
Save file reset? is there a way to reset the saves?
it is likely that hardcore might fix some factors with difficulty but not all of them .. please allow endless mode for PC players to have more enemies than 4 to attack at once (maybe like the first game with 10 enemies)

overall:

graphics and gameplay are solid and performance is pretty good but the default difficulty is too easy and this more than anything makes the end goals less rewarding despite how some of the bosses feel like bullet or hit sponges

Robit, Flop, die, repeats

i dunno is fun tho ... kinda hard too but in a fun way

8/10 would flop over kart just to see shadow specter sock muppet thing kill the teammates and the kart items

blind hunter muppet is so OP tho so minus a point for his ability to phase shoot through solid objects

Beeffy clown and brainlient are annoying but fun to see do their thing lol

white flobber mallow monster is a big meenie ... minus one point for flimbing meening ... (he explode good tho so i dunno)

anyways:

short version ... game good but best with a friend group .. playing solo is possible but quite a bit harder and less fun than co op

movement system is horridly broken and the in game controls are overly simplified (is this only good on htc vive?)

graphics are mid and the gun play is decent enough but falls flat compared to other VR shooters like Onward

feels like it has some good bones and does at least partially play like time crisis but a tad more jank than i wanted

get this on sale

4/10 walks into the wrong zone and shoots left handedly with no option to force right handedness or left handedness

constantly crashing without predictable causes means i cannot recommend this game to anyone

if it wasnt crashing then i would say:

it plays like the old flash game but at full screen and with a sense of continuance between the 3 worlds

sadly however since i cant seem to finish a single level without the game glitching or hanging up or some other odd unreasonable thing happening in game then i have to recommend against purchasing it unless you get it for free or 90% off

poor servers with absurd ping levels combined with the lack of awareness of what makes for good gunplay

Dice should go back and play Battlefield Bad company 2 then 4 then Battlefield 1 and see what good gunplay is then replicate that into this game

when swapping from main to pistol i have had many times where my guy fumbles and doesnt do anything resulting in him dying

granades .... whos empty headed idea was it to "switch to" granades when i press G ... it should be "Press G to throw" or "Press and hold G to cook grenades"

battlefield SHOULD NOT have the ability to scrollthrough different items save for main firearm and pistol

if i wanted to scroll through all the items i have i would play Doom or Serious Sam .. i should press the number row numbers for the items NOT scroll to get them all as it removes speed from the gameplay allowing only for fumbling

graphics: .. .no big stepup in any real way looks more like battlefield 3 with a resolution bump

gadgets need better implementation

overall:

fix the horrid Ping issues and set the gunplay to that of Battlefield 4 and 1 with the sound design closer to 1 in terms of realism and depth

mini map and spawning works (mostly)

4/10 would not waste a week downloading this on DSL again

its a fairly solid "battlefield like" medieval combat game where the game plays alot like battlefield but has actual dismemberment and it has reasonably dynamic gameplay

only issue i have is that its slow with the weapon swings lol

i love doctor who... that said... this game is broken

no Index support (it uses the Wand controller layout mapped to the index but lacks the finesse one expects)

longer version down below:

game starts off promising (mostly) but its VERY hand holding to the point where it almost feels like it insults your intelligence as the player

when i purchased this game i expected to BE the doctor not be guided by Jhodi tron 5000 holo face (i wont be spelling her name right and thats a choice)

you are given the "new" sonic that was jodis sonic ... it is barely functional as a sonic with poor tracking and very pedantic pointing (unintuitive play really)

the game is so scripted that there is no room for improvisation ... you as the player are hand held audio guided through a very VERY linear story

its almost just a passive (hardly interactive) episode of Doctor who from after the time it was actually good (wish it was david tennant or matt smith or peter capaldi)

if you want a very pedantic hand holding game ... get this on sale for under 5$ as even that feels like it might be too much for this game

i feel sorry for the people who actually put effort into the environment as their work will be diminished by the quality of the gameplay which sadly is rather lackluster even given that its VR

Suggestions to the devs (if they ever actually read this)

make and allow for the tardis controls to be improvised with exception to the "launch lever" being used to actually "launch" the tardis

remove (or allow the option to disable) the doctors voice over

redo the game to where the player is the doctor and they have to make choices with a few potential outcomes (a sequel maybe?)

make the sonic screwdriver able to interact with the surrounding environment including the ability to scan objects or hack computers and whatnot but have this feel dynamic and not stiff or rigid (it technically is a wand so treat it like one)

i might later come back to try to pass the initial tardis puzzle but its so annoying and terribly designed that doing so feels like a chore

2/10 hardly worth the sale price

a very solid dungeon crawler game

a few minor issues with level generation on rare instances but aside from that it performs well and is properly hard to play but once you get to the point where you know what to expect then it gets easier to a degree but is still quite hard

it works most of the time but some of the recent updates feel like they are trying to turn steam VR into some META nonsense

also apparently when launching games through VR if those games have "options" (Ragnarock, Dirt Rally2.0) the game wont launch fully through VR until you click the things on desktop (which never used to be the case)

overall the software does work and has gotten reasonably robust but some of the more recent updates are questionable

Guitar Hero and BeatSabers love child

a very forgiving Rhythm game with no direct fail state

it is also technically a race for distance (the better and more accurate your note strikes the better and faster your rowers row)

neat landscapes

Pros:

a fun slightly silly aesthetic
runs flawlessly from my experience
fun songs that fit the vibe (mostly)
good workout

cons
online play can be spotty (no notable servers in my experience)
customization is minimal (but is present)

Overall:
would be fun to allow 2 player VR with both hybrid play (one in VR and the other in controller)
would also be fun to have 2 VR headsets plugged in and play in room space with those too

game is solid and performs very well and most of the songs feel like they fit well with the overall game vibe

8/10 would burn my arms off again trying to keep pace at 10 rank songs