System: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £7.19
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Interactive Experience
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 20
Description: KENDO is a pure VR sword fighting game focused on realism. Enter a virtual dojo and face a series of unique practitioners with their own styles and techniques. Use timing and skill to land the winning point. Dodge thrusts, swing and lock shinais to follow the true way of the warrior.
Review: KENDO isn’t so much a game, it is more a light practising tool for those who do Kendo Japanese martial art in real-life. But not being fun to play is just the start of this apps problems. The view is narrow and pointless, the gameplay is not responsive or accurate in any way and the challenge level is zilch. While I admit that I have never done any sort of Kendo before I am sure it is not like this app. Add the £7.19 price tag for VERY little content and you have an app no-one should be recommending any time soon. It just doesn’t have the content nor the quality to justify this app costing anything more than being free, but I am willing to suggest that I am missing the point to this. If I am why not let me know in the comments below.
