Bakemono – Demon Brigade Tenmen Unit 01 (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £15.49
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

Description: Bakemono is an anime-themed VR mech action-adventure. Shoot, Wallrun, and fly while having full control over both hands and weapons. The game’s campaign is centred around a battle for the Solar System, in which The United Mars Federation betrays the treaty of 4712 – NSE ( New Solar Era), initiate a terrorist attack on The Sky Dominion Corporation and The Terrestrial Royal Empire.

The United Mars Federation has banded together with the current Raider Pirate Tribes and Rogue Military Factions to form an unstoppable force and wish to unseat The Terrestrial Royal Empire as the primary ruling body in the solar system and by proxy The Sky Dominion Corporation. Circumstances have forced The Terrestrial Royal Empire to use the original seven BTB Units: code-named “Bakemono Initiative”. These legendary mechs are the only weapons capable of defending the Earth.

Review: I’m not really sure what ‘Bakemono – Demon Brigade Tenmen Unit 01’, but if I had to guess the developer (or developers) had grand ideas above their abilities. Its a mech action game in which you are chucked unto some random battle with no real explanation and then you just shot at anything and they shot at you even if you are behind something or even inside a building, it all feels so broken and unfinished, but yet in the same way it also has massive potential to be something great. While I would love to see this game grow into something better I can’t really see that happening as it is such a long way off being worth anything near the current £15.49 asking price.