Synth Ninja (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £1.69
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Music and Rhythm
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: Synth Ninja is our take on casual games in VR. Synth Ninja brings together the unforgettable Synthwave theme of the ’80s with ninjas and offers a unique VR experience. Your goal in the game hit the targets with shurikens. Each target has random blue and red colours. You have to shot with shuriken that matches the colour of targets.

Review: Synth Ninja is a music rhythm game in which you will be dancing along to tacky ’80s Synthwave music while being a ninja and throwing ninja stars (shuriken) at the beats of the game. It really doesn’t matter that those beats and the music bear no resemblance to each other as the whole of the game is a crap idea and poorly executed anyway. For £1.69 you might be able to have a laugh with this, but there really isn’t a whole lot of songs and only 1 arena to play in and the gameplay sucks anyway. The whole game reminds me a lot of the 80’s…both are easily forgettable.