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This leads to terrible situations where you accidentally click at the wrong moment, and end up skating across the room (warping through doors, but getting stuck on other objects) unintentionally. The alternate to the “stepping”mechanic is to engage “smooth” locomotion, which works in a similar way but skips the stepping in favor of sending the player gliding across the floor. Don’t get me started on trying to go up and down stairs, which are so difficult to navigate that I eventually began avoiding them until I had no other option. The result is a very slow and painstaking manner of locomotion, with the VR player spending more time flailing around trying to move than actually having fun smashing stuff. Players then have to click the right thumb button repeatedly to take steps towards their destination (mini-teleports, for lack of a better way to describe it). Motion is handled by pointing the right Move Controller at the floor while holding down the thumb button to designate a destination. Holding the left thumb button down, players must swipe the left Move Controller towards or away from themselves to turn. While Smash Hit Plunder would have been well served by a simple “point and teleport/click a button to turn” control system, players instead use one of the most unintuitive methods of control I’ve encountered. Movement in Smash Hit Plunder is unique, reinventing the standard VR “teleportation”mechanic in a manner that is less than successful. I encountered some fairly severe tracking issues, with my controllers (represented as thick magic wands in-game) jittering all over the room, disappearing into walls, and sometimes getting stuck in place while my character drifted involuntarily away. I used Move Controllers to play (there is a Duel Shock option available, but the functionality mimics the Move configuration). The VR player, meanwhile, will be struggling with difficulties of their own. Standing in front of a table crowded with goodies and pressing the “pick-up” button will randomly grab an item, but the interface is too crudely rendered to really zero in on what object you will end up with. The social screen characters are also somewhat difficult to control, with little way to determine what they will pick up or try to destroy next. This results in a strangely limited vantage point for the non-VR players, who are sometimes trying to pull items off of shelves that are obscured from view.

While the player in VR sees everything in first person, the social screen players see an isometric view of the rooms being explored, with the VR player being represented as a character onscreen.

While this is a fun idea, in practice it presents a number of problems. While the VR player runs clean up by vacuuming the loot, the other players can run around assisting in the destruction. Players can also eventually unlock “Free Play”, which removes all of the time constraints and allows players to go nuts at their leisure.Īll three of these modes can be played in co-op multiplayer with up to three additional players controlling little gnome-y guys on the social screen.

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A full campaign that can be played single player or co-op – plus two PVP modes – adds up to a lot of value for players who enjoy the game.īeyond the progression in the “Treasure Hunt” mode (which I came to think of as “Story Mode”), the game also offers “Scavenger Hunt”, which has players seeking particular items in quick succession while a timer counts down. Smash Hit Plunder offers a good amount of content for the price. Earning crowns unlocks further areas to explore, as well as opening up additional game modes. One to three crowns are awarded to players at the end of levels, the count depending on how much loot is gathered within the specified amount of time. The faster you smash stuff, the quicker your coin count goes up. In practical terms, this means that the player must enter a room with a timer counting down, smashing as much stuff as possible and vacuuming up all of the exposed currency.Ĭoins are hidden in books, jars, under logs, in ukuleles, under every surface and in every container. The young wizard now must ransack the entire castle, ripping it to shreds and destroying everything in sight in order to uncover all of the hidden loot. Luckily, Grandmother was a bit of a hoarder (and she clearly didn’t trust banks), as she hid coins and jewels in every crevice of the castle.

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