What the Bat is an experience that cannot be missing from the library of every owner of a virtual reality headset. He made us laugh so many times with his absurd and irreverent riddles that we feel like recommending him unilaterally. Its only flaw is the price, still a little high for an experience that lasts about four hours, but as soon as this automatic smile generator goes on sale you will not miss it.
The Danish developers of Triband are back following the success of What the Golf, the crazy video game that takes the concept behind the gentleman's sport and turns it into a whirlwind of fun, nonsensical scenarios. What The Bat does the same by putting you, in virtual reality, in the shoes of a person with two baseball bats for hands.
The scenarios you will find yourself in will be his journey, from baby to adult, full of situations in which you will have to deal with the fact that his only way of interacting with the world is with baseball bats.
The absurd graphics and characters that made Triband's works iconic return and in this What a bat review We'll explain how this game, with its irony perfectly mixed with nonsense, is one of the best launch products for PS VR2, but is also available for Meta and Steam VR. As the developers say "Warning: this game will not make you a better baseball player."
mountains of laughter
There are products that make you think, that excite and move you, What the Bat makes you laugh a lot. We rarely meet in burst out laughing as much as with this game, because its way of combining virtual reality with the most classic puzzles is really ingenious. Living with a pair of baseball bats instead of hands makes even the simplest operations, like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast, more complicated, and each of these little things becomes one of the 100 puzzles that make up the experience and that They require little less. more than four hours to complete.
Throughout the adventure you'll have to hit bananas, toothpaste tubes, carry eggs, do graffiti, rob an art museum, and maybe even play a little baseball. Except for a couple of puzzles that aren't immediately understood, the fun of What the Bat is measuring your strength to Make the best use of your clubs. baseball. And just when we thought that nothing more could be done with two sticks instead of hands, the developers managed to surprise us with a new seemingly impossible mission, but that after a couple of hits, we somehow managed to solve.
Effective simplicity
In recent years we have tested various virtual reality experiences and we have seen first-hand that the nausea level The causes of these experiences remain subjective (which is why it is always recommended to take breaks every half hour). Despite this, What the Bat didn't even make us dizzy or uncomfortable. This is because throughout the game you will not be able to move and therefore the perspective remains unchanged: everything you need to solve a puzzle is always within bat's reach. Playing means "just" looking around and hitting things, so: In their graphical simplicity, What the Bat's environments are very well constructed and do not cause perceptual problems in virtual reality. Without a doubt, this is a great advantage when it comes to combating nausea and headaches.
The other big advantage of the Bat is its reset button for the puzzle you're on. By joining the lower part of the two baseball bats the stage will return to the initial configuration; This way, if an important object falls to the ground or gets stuck, we can simply restart the level without having to navigate through menus and various screens, something that is always annoying in virtual reality. The game is then divided into 9 chapters, each with 10 or more puzzles to solve or things to get right until something happens. This also makes it great as a 10-minute filler – What the Bat is perfect to enjoy in small bites. giving you a smile on a stressful day. This is a simple but effective product, proving that you don't need extreme realism or millimeter tracking of movements to have fun in virtual reality, just a very good game design.
Conclusions
Tested version PlayStation 5 digital delivery Steam, PlayStation Store Price 24,99 € Holygamerz.com 8.5 Readers (1) 9.4 your voteWhat the Bat is such a fun experience that if you have a virtual reality headset you can't stop playing it. Between bananas, love stories between satellites, hungry kittens and very difficult tooth brushing, you always laugh out loud in the company of the two baseball bats that you have for hands. We didn't even feel the slightest bit nauseous and in the four hours it took us to complete it we didn't want to put down the controllers. The absurd mixes well with the logic of the puzzles thanks to quality game design that reflects the excellent management of the forces available to the player. Easily restarting a level that goes wrong is essential to ward off frustration and What the Bat achieves this with a gesture. The price is a little high given the brevity of the experience, but new levels are on the way and sales are always just around the corner. What really cannot be missing from the libraries of all owners of a virtual reality headset is the Bat because rarely have we laughed so much with so little.
PRO
- Pure fun
- Simplicity that does not bore
- Completely nausea-free VR
AGAINST
- Price
- Brevity
