I like it a lot, and never got bored because I almost immediately stopped worrying about the fruit and just immersed myself in the fun of flying around the island. And it is tremendously fun and relaxing to just spend a few minutes here and there flying around without any pressure.

Sure, I collected fruit now and then, but I didn't feel any special drive to collect them all. It was more "hey, here's an excuse to get better at diving or turning or skimming the ground." But the "collect them all" aspect felt less like the point and more like the devs going "Oh yeah, we're supposed to put game elements in there too, huh?"

Oh, and I found it a lot more intuitive to use a controller. Surprised you didn't mention it.

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Quoting: liamdaweIt's not the fact that it's VR, but having something like that strapped to your face for a long time and the games themselves, that's what I'm keen to put some time and thoughts into.

I'm curious about how the headsets interact with glasses, personally. I have trouble even wearing headphones, since they crush the posts against my head, so the idea of an obviously much heavier piece of hardware that needs to have room for the lenses themselves (unless they've got SERIOUSLY adjustable focus to compensate I guess) is hard to wrap my head around, so to speak.

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Remember that you can play Lost Constellation and Longest Night on Itch.io for free, both of which are great previews of the art style and writing.

I pre-ordered this back in 2014, so I'm super eager to play. But circumstances mean that I won't be able to until Saturday. Alas, cruel fate!

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Hmm, starts on the wrong monitor with no options, and then hangs on the first loading screen. Not an auspicious start.

Edited to add: Second try things worked properly, but got bored when I scoured the whole level and still can't find an item I need, and the bobbing as you walk was making me start to feel ill.

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Oh cool, I won a key for this a while back, but decided to wait until the full release before really digging into it. I've wanted a game like this ever since Towns cratered.

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I've pretty much given up on a port actually happening. I was really excited about Banished when it came out, and really wanted to play it given there was already talk about a port. A friend bought it for me for Xmas but since then it's sat there like a digital paperweight for what, more than two years now? With occasional "it's coming" references before lapsing back into long radio silence again.

I appreciate they're working on tools to make upcoming games cross-platform, but I'm in the "I'll believe it when I see it, and I don't expect to see it" camp now.

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Yet another PvP based MMO, how unusual. :O

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I'm guessing Skyrim

I always guess Skyrim

Even if Skyrim came out, I'd still guess Skyrim

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Samsai still being an International Man of Mystery this week? Or is this something the two of you cooked up?

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Come to think of it, leafo, there is one little quality of life thing I noticed that could use addressing sometime. When I go into, say, Linux games, there's a sidebar with various options. When I look at a game's page from there, I get a sidebar on the other side with the "Install" or "Buy now" buttons and so forth. But if I hit the back button, the game's sidebar remains and the search options sidebar doesn't come back. The only way to restore it is to go back to the front page again, and hit Linux games all over again.

Not the biggest priority or anything, but I think it would facilitate searching and checking things out a bit more if that were taken care of.

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