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My review of the Voltron VR Chronicles under a read more bc spoilers and bc it got real long real quick

A bit short, but I’ve never used VR before so the eye strain is real. I’m actually kind of glad it wasn’t super long. Any longer and I probably would have had to stop for a bit anyway.

The animation was really cool? Like, it was all 3D without being too different from the show’s 2D animation? I thought it was really nice. The characters were pretty expressive and all the different environments looked so cool!

Holy shit Zarkon is tall????? Like, I knew he was tall, but it didn’t become real until he was standing way too close and being all imposing and staring into my 5′7″ soul from way up there. 

Also, all of the Alteans looked v short. Like, Allura looked downright tiny and Coran was shorter than me during one of the disembodied cinematics where you aren’t actually playing as Lance you’re just watching stuff happen. It was... weird. I don’t like being taller than Coran. I was definitely shorter than Lance in the first cinematic, so idk what’s going on there. I’m pretty sure Coran would be taller than me.

The part of the game where you have to shoot down the Galra fighters could be explained a little bit better bc I wasn’t sure which button to press to fire but I figured it out eventually lol.

Shiro complimented my shooting skills and my life is complete I can die happy now.

I was also really bad at dodging things when we fought the robeast and Shiro got real annoyed and guys. You don’t want to disappoint Shiro. It’s soul-crushing. I tried my best, Shiro, please be proud of my efforts.

The power blocks puzzle is really hard but I eventually got it (no thanks to everyone else gosh guys yelling while I’m trying to arrange glowing blocks isn’t going to help)

The achievement “Lancey Lance is on the Case”

I don’t... really understand Zarkon’s throne room? It’s just... a platform in front of the throne? Where are the doors? Are they on either side of the throne? Zarkon is either really confident in his own abilities (likely) or he’s a fool (also likely) bc having everyone walk in from your blind spots is just a bad idea. You’re never going to know who’s there! Otherwise there’s stairs or something on either side of that platform and I just couldn’t see them, which also seems like a great way to be snuck up on. tl;dr: Zarkon’s throne room needs some renovations.

Got to be Allura for a hot second and that was cool. Opening wormholes is complicated stuff and I can see now why she’s the only one who can do it. Good job, Allura. I appreciate you.

I got it through Steam instead of through the Oculus store like a fool so it was hell trying to get the game started, but once I did it didn’t really make a difference which headset I was using. It’s also on sale in the Oculus store rn tho, so if anyone has a Rift and wants it, get it from the Oculus store. You will thank yourself later.

Overall 10/10 would recommend I don’t understand why people were upset about it.