System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £5.59
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
Description: SwingStar VR allows players to swing around a virtual reality world using a giant sticky hand attached to their head. The game is a third-person swinging physics puzzler that puts players through a wild ride, accelerating the player as they swing. It’s wacky and super fun.
A disaster has mutated physics, you must save your home multiverse by ringing the mysterious bell. A magic helmet allows the player to swing through all of the affected dimensions and set things right by ringing all the resonator bells. A colossus robot stands between you and the final bell. Explore a colourful cartoon world by swinging through enchanted deserts, bright forests, steep canyons, and many more bizarre and beautiful worlds!
SwingStar’s deceptively simple controls use only a button and your line of sight to soar, flip, swing, fly, and explore in ways you have never experienced in any other video game.
Review: Played inside a bright and colourful game world you play as some sort of daredevil, deathwish boy with a special helmet that has a spring loaded giant hand on it. This hand can grip to various things and propel your character along.
The idea is fairly simple. You have to get from the start to the end of the level and ring the bell at the end. Oh, and you can’t touch the floor! What this means is you have to flip, spin and throw yourself all over the place just to get to the next block. There is nothing complicated about the controls, just look grab and fling! Some of the later levels are massive, but that makes them even more fun. Having to swing from block to block in this crazy game is like playing Windlands on drugs!
With 30 levels to play with (for now anyway), there is not a lot to explore. But getting those 3-star awards and secret doors will take some time and effort. This is a cheap fun game that will make a lot of people feel VR sick, but for those of us with stronger stomachs, it’s a fun joyride that will feel as if you are flying around and pulling off the impossible stunts yourself. If you can stand it, the game is well worth the money.
