Review: Pixel Gear (PSVR)
Pixel Gear is a colorful 3D pixel shoot-em-up with a variety of humorous cartoon monsters and ghosts as enemies.
Pros:
- Nice pixel graphics.
- Shooting gallery gameplay.
- 1.28GB download size.
- Uses one move controller.
- Turns your controller into a gun.
- Simple controls.
- Button layout is on loading screens and behind you on a sign.
- Health heart shows on the gun when you get hit.
- Score shown down by your feet.
- Shoot the bonus ghosts for coins, Ammo or health.
- Coins used at the end of a wave to buy ammo, New gun or a random power up.
- Cool power ups like double coin modifier or slow down to name but a few.
- Big massive screen filling bosses. They have a health bar on the top right and have hit markers.
- Available in English or Japanese.
- You can actually aim down the sights of the gun.
- Four guns to buy-Pistol, Sniper, Uzi and a grenade launcher.
- Three worlds to play through taking in a basic green level, Medieval zone and a snow capped ic mountain one.
- You get a special move which is rapid fire shots with slowdown on the enemy movement.
- Bats carry bombs so killing them allows the bomb to drop.
- Combo counter.
- No major movement issues making it a great VR game for people who may get motion sickness.
- End of level breakdown on performance like score, Kills and critical hits.
- Four difficulties from easy to crazy.
- Some of the most accurate solid aiming and shooting on VR.
- Fun to play.
- Very much a pick up and play type of game.
Cons:
- Boss fights can overstay there welcome.
- No real tutorial.
- Same music on loop in levels.
- Annoying enemy sounds mixed with the gunfire makes it all a bit annoying.
- Stupid cheap last boss.
- Score means nothing due to the lack of leader boards.
- Only a handful of enemy types.
- Slow game play pace until you hit the crazy difficulty.
- You have to unlock the higher difficulty tiers.
- Not much replay ability.
- Sniper has no real purpose as it is too slow.
- You land up just using the pistol as it is the most reliable gun.
