System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £2.09
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Arcade
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 75
Description: This is a VR version of my game Ding Dong XL. This is my first Virtual Reality game so please let me know if there are issues or concerns and I will do my best to address them ASAP. Please expect ‘Ding Dong VR’ to be a small, re-playable, arcade score-chaser game where the only basic goals are to constantly beat your previous score and unlock a handful of cosmetic skins for the character. This VR version adds 3D depth and effects to make it more immersive while retaining the same one button arcade pace of the non-VR version.
Review: Ding Dong VR is not a game in which you control a character from ‘Carry On Nurse’ (ask your parents), it is a retro arcade-style game that is a mix between pong and frogger. The gameplay is simple. You need to get the ball in the middle of the playing field to the top of the screen and then back to the bottom as many times as you can. This is done by a single button press and that is all the controls you need so it’s pretty easy to play, to say the least. While basic the small particles effects are quite nice, but for many, this will be too retro for its own good. But I kind of liked it and feel it is just about worth the asking price.
