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I am so absolutely torn on this game. I wish there was a "mixed feelings" button, because the game has a lot I like as well as plenty of issues that make me unable to play longer than a few songs without getting annoyed. From what I heard, the developers are amazing, and genuinely care for the game. The game itself is very fun if you like rhythm vr games. I also got this all on sale, so for the price I got it, it was definitely worth it. For all those reasons, the review is staying a positive.
Now to air out all the issues I have with this game.
As many others have mentioned, the games timing. It is legitimately awful. I can never get bronze on the medium difficulty songs despite not really struggling with them that much. So what's holding me back? I'm missing a TON of notes, and I guarantee more than half of those missed notes are not my fault what so ever. I will swing the hammer down, watch the spark effects, and then the note just still counts as a fail. This isn't something to flex or anything, but I have 100+ hours on beat-saber and I can easily beat nearly any expert + song on my first try. I say that just so you know I am not a beginner when it comes to vr rhythm games. The fact I miss so many notes is legitimately game ruining to me even though there is no technical "fail", and I could just shrug it off. But I do not find it fun to have several failed notes that was entirely out of my control.
The drum positioning is not enough. I don't know if it's a me thing or if it's an issue with the game, but I have fiddled with the drums every single time and never do they feel to be in a good position. It always feels like they're way too high up, way too low, way too the left, way too the right. I think the issue with this is the drums are locked into being right next to each other in a straight line. I can't tell you a good alternative, because it feels like we're caught in if you offset the drums positioning to wrap around comfortably, you compromise the ease of telling the timing of each note properly. But leaving it as is is uncomfortable with any setup I use.
Finally, the charting. I cannot handle the max difficulty songs yet, but I do stay inside the middle difficulty. The song's charting is not great. There's so many songs that just make me feel like a toddler hitting a toy drum rather than actually reaching any flow state in this rhythm game. The "runes" are strewn about seemingly at random with very few times them actually feeling they fit the song (usually this only happens during the chorus). The poorly charted songs paired with the unreliable game timing leads to a very un-fun experience. Think playing Friday Night Funking with wii motion controls. It is frustrating.
I noticed today that when I launched the game, it is not detecting any of the DLC I have purchased (I purchased all of the DLC) and was left only able to play the base game today. It's only happened once and this could absolutely be a steam issue not the devs fault, but I figured it's worth noting.
If you think the game looks fun, it is! So definitely grab the base game on a sale and give it a try. It's really not that expensive, and it's worth the experience. Just maybe hold off on the DLC packs until you really give it all a good play through to get a feel for how the game is. Maybe you don't have any issues like I did, or maybe I'm just bad. I'm going to keep trying to get used to this game, because I genuinely want to enjoy it.