As a PlayStation VR owner, I know that I’m not getting the top of the line virtual reality experience. The headset tracking is inconsistent if not straight up miserable at times, the Move controllers are lacking inputs, and the graphical fidelity often isn’t all that great. Despite these problems, I never felt as if I was getting a considerably worse experience than those playing the same VR game on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
Then I played SUPERHOT VR.
SUPERHOT VR was the first time that I had an experience truly marred not by the game’s design, but due to the PSVR hardware not being up for the task. Every minute I spent with the headset on made it clear: this game was not developed with PSVR in mind. For it to be played optimally it requires a fine degree of accuracy where every moment is read correctly, and there isn’t any type of interference. That’s not the experience I had, and sadly that’s all I can relay.
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Every small tracking error that would be a small annoyance in almost any other title became a huge ordeal in SUPERHOT VR due to the game’s core mechanic: when you move, time moves. That meant if the camera thought I suddenly moved my arm from one side of the screen to the other that time would speed up when I wasn’t ready for it. This often resulted in myself looking at a white screen because a bullet just crashed into my virtual dome.
What further worsens the experience is how the levels are laid out with...