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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.5 hrs on record (0.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 1 Sep, 2021 @ 12:46am
Updated: 30 Jan, 2022 @ 2:31pm

This game seems like it could have potential, but it is outright unplayable for me. There as so many problems right out the gate, before even leaving the main menu, it's hard to know where to start. First and foremost, this game is NOT designed to be played with a Valve Index. The in-game controllers are clearly modeled for Oculus, and the control scheme is nonsensical. There is no option at all for teleport-style movement, you can only do continuous style and add a "motion sickness" compensator that just makes you feel like you're going to black out when you move. Calibrating your height in the main menu turns you to face away from the actual menu every single time, and seated mode made me clip under the ground. The actual height scaling seems totally out of whack, as I feel like a giant, but my hands reach all the way to the "ground." I'm not sure if I just did something wrong, or if this game is really that whack. I didn't even play this for five minutes before I had to shut it off due to frustration. This really sucks, because Iragon seems to have a lot of promise based on what I've seen from other people, but the fact that is is just impossible to play for me is a deal breaker. Hopefully these issues are dealt with in the full release, if that ever comes to pass.

EDIT: A few updates have gone up since my original review, AND IT STILL DOESN'T WORK. It's at the point where normal gameplay works alright, all the way up until you reach any sort of cutscene, at which point the tracking completely breaks. It corrects itself after moving to the next map area, but then it breaks again as soon as the next cutscene triggers. It's clear the deverloper has little to no intention of making this work properly on Index.
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