System: PSVR 1
Price at Time Of Review: £11.49
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Fun Shooter
Input: Move Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: A Shooting Gallery-style game, players must take up their bow and protect their banana stash against waves of monkeys coming to get them. Gameplay involves the player taking up the PlayStation Move controllers and mimic the movements shooting an arrow. Features a child-friendly cartoon style with cheerful graphics, Gameplay mode is solo play (with cooperative multiplayer coming out soon with up to four players fighting together). Compare your scores and compete for the rankings, with waves and waves of enemies are varied with huge Boss Battles occurring randomly. The player can look around with their Headset while aiming with their Move controllers. Players are fixed in one position while being able to switch to various other locations in the game with their Rope.
Review: Ace Banana is what I can only presume the first of many, many bows and arrow games on the PSVR. The story behind the game is pretty simple, you need to stop hordes of monkeys eating bananas! Wave, after wave of them, will keep coming and you need to become a fast shooting Robin Hood to play it. While the first few waves of this game will seem pretty simple and almost childlike, you will soon realise that things are not that simple and find monkeys coming at you everywhere you look. Gameplay wise it feels pretty natural to shoot the bow and arrow style, you will be quick loading and firing in no time. Some of the aimings take a little getting used to, but it is best to look where the target crosshair is, not so much the line of fire. Also by tipping it onto its side, you can fire 3 arrows at once! It’s cartoon graphics and fun style makes this a family friendly game that works amazingly well in VR.
Just a moment ago I said this game “works amazingly well in VR”, well that is true and it feels great in VR, no sickness at all, even the platform teleports have been done in such a way as to prevent VR sickness. But what this game does show is how badly the PSVR does VR. You will constantly be out of tracking range and forever having issues firing the arrows off at the sides because the camera tracking simply doesn’t work that well. This is a short but fun game that should be played on any VR system apart from this one.
