 Shadow Legend is a VR game that really does its best to take advantage of the fact that it is a VR game in ways That I wished so many more games did this game Surprised me time and time again over the course of its four to five hour campaign with just how creative it got with its use of Virtual reality and motion controllers and yes You will need move controllers if you want to play this game to the point where I didn't want to stop playing Because I was just so curious to see what other tricks Vitruvius the developer had up their sleeves It really was a delight to play even if it did fall short in a few areas So Shadow Legend is a story driven RPG that sees you playing as the grand master You're tasked with saving the world from this big evil entity and you're tasked by a very good entity It's just your classic tale of good versus evil. I didn't really find the story too gripping in this game It was more just a way to justify the gameplay and what your character was doing rather than adding that was too interesting That brings me to the characters in this game the NPCs and they're all pretty rough-looking the animations are super stiff The voice acting even as well as one of the stiffness matches the voice acting It can kind of feel like you're playing a ps2 game with the way the NPCs look now That's not to say that the game is ugly because I was actually really surprised with how clear and crisp The visuals are in this game now. It should point out I was playing on a ps4 pro and the ps4 pro offers 30% higher resolution as well as two times higher Anti-aliasing so there is advantages on the pro your mileage may vary if you're playing on the standard ps4 But just things like the details on the caravan of a stone tomb or the way the moon was glistening on the rooftop In a cemetery area. It just looked really nice. What about how it plays now? Shadow legends is broken up into several levels these levels aren't particularly big or anything But there is enough to them where you could find yourself spending quite a bit of time Common over every nook and cranny solving these small enjoyable puzzles Looking for treasures interacting with objects in fun ways For example, you can put a steak on a frying pan fry it up and then eat us all using the motion controllers You can pet your dog play fetch with a dog You know, you can feed a Carrot to a horse you can do lots of crazy things in this game that like it keeps you hooked like you You're always wanting to know what's what am I going to be able to do in this next area? And you're never really disappointed because there's always something different in the next area I should give special mention to the climbing mechanics in this game You can really climb around you can go across ropes like this, you know It's you feel like Nathan Drake kind of and it really proves that climbing like that can work in Virtual reality and this game is just the proof of that Thankfully you can do all of these things with smooth locomotion smooth turning and blinders turned off because the developers Vitruvius had the good sense to add all these comfort options toggle them on and off So round of applause for them after adding that It's nice to not have to wait for a patch for these things to be added in Combat in Shadow Legends is pretty fun, too. You'll be facing off against an undead army You'll be avoiding their projectiles You'll be blocking their attacks with your sword and you'll be dismembering them in order to collect their hearts Collect enough of these hearts and you can trade them in for upgrades the upgrades in this game aren't particularly deep But there's enough there that you will want to be collecting these hearts to better your character speaking of the combat There are several unique weapons in this game one of them in particular I really like it's pretty much basically Kratos from God of Wars acts, you know It kind of works the same way. That's very cool I'm thinking that's my favorite one you can acquire these weapons from merchants that you'll find throughout the levels as long as you have The gold and the ruins of power necessary to wheel these weapons And it's just worth pointing out as well that you can kind of haggle with these merchants to get better prices for your gold If you want to feel a bit like Geralt of Rivia Shadow Legends will also throw a few boss fights your way And even these do a great job of taking advantage of the fact that you're in virtual reality One of them will make you feel like you're Harry Potter in the way that you're kind of testing the triggers on these Move controllers to try and overpower the enemy another one will see you need in rapid Reflexes to block incoming sword strikes from an enemy. They were just really fun. I enjoyed those boss fights a lot It was just a little bit of a shame that the music that was playing throughout the game It was kind of low-quality imagine if you're watching a YouTube video at 360p It was like this, but the equivalent of that for audio for some reason it just sounded low quality So if the quality had to be a bit higher there Probably would have really added to these epic moments these boss fights and just the general ambience of the game I guess so to wrap it up Shadow Legend is a game made with limited resources and it shows But Shadow Legend isn't meant to be a triple a title It feels more like a glimpse into the future of virtual reality It's about showing us that climate can translate well into virtual reality that Combast can be precise and fun not just waggling your stick around that viewer players have hands in the game Not just buttons. So let's give them way more interactions I mean yes Skyrim has huge open world and it has hundreds of hours of content But it's not built from the ground up for virtual reality like Shadow Legend is I can't help but dream of what a game like Skyrim would be if it was built With virtual reality in mind from the beginning Shadow Legends is $25 and 25 euro on the PlayStation Store. It may be a short game But with two endings and a platinum trophy up for grabs I have no problems Recommending this game to any PS viewer owner 2020 is off to a good start for PS viewer and that's it for this review Thank you for watching lads and ladies. Let me give a special thanks to my patreon supporters whose names are on screen now Thanks to their support this channel can continue to improve and let me give a special shout out to Pete Hawkins Tradition Columbus Thomas III and crumb those lads are supporting me at the top tier over on patreon And I appreciate that very much. 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