Kooring VR Wonderland : Heart Castle Crush

Kooring VR Wonderland : Heart Castle Crush

Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2

You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/cN2YOcRuNzA

This is a collection of 6 mini-games that is targeted for small children. The mini-games are bright, colorful, & very simple. Kids may enjoy this, but I doubt any adult would. There’s also a central hub area where you can select the mini-games and also point & click on certain objects to see them react.

Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 3080, I was getting a steady 90 frames per second. I did not experience any serious issues or bugs. Unfortunately, there were no settings available. There is also no locomotion (other than swing-arm locomotion in one of the mini-games. All the action happens 180 degrees in front of you.

Real player with 0.5 hrs in game


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Kooring VR Wonderland : Heart Castle Crush on Steam

Ponpu

Ponpu

Graphics: the style of black and white with colored accents is really well done- for the most part there’s a nice clarity to it all (minus some bones that look like they might be able to be walked over) and a lot of restraint is used in what is chosen to be colored. Boss design range from referential to repulsive in the same comedic way like Castle Crasher’s Catfish boss, but feel unique from one another and from the normal baddies.

Gameplay: Bomberman but strange duckbomberman creature instead. Rapidly launching bombs feels really nice, hitting things and destroying the environment feels impactful, Dashing through stages especially feels rewarding and frenetic. Some small issues with the cooldown with dashing feeling a bit random, and limitations to launching bombs where after 8-9 the next will suddenly not be launched and lead to a lot of accidental self-explosion during bosses. Stages in Story Mode scale up nicely, though it does treat you to a lot of dead ends and force you to explore around for the exit and the key, so if you like more linear experiences this might frustrate you especially near the end.

Real player with 127.1 hrs in game


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After some time with the game and almost being done with the story mode, I’m pretty mixed, but more on the negative side.

Ponpu is clearly inspired by that of Super Bomberman for the SNES, and it does a good job of making the idea unique: A game with different kinds of characters with different bomb abilities, a beautiful, yet wacky art style that ties in well with the goofy music backing the game, and overall a fresh take on the Bomberman games.

However, at times I found the redundancy of the story mode really sank in and made the game pretty boring: Walk around, blow things up to get rainbow feathers, kill enemies, get the gold key, move on- three normal levels and one boss, each stage. After the first three bosses, I was expecting some sort of change to how to advance on the levels/the challenge of beating the story. Yet all it did was change the look of the level, the look/difficulty of some enemies, and that’s about it. I do really enjoy the bosses, though, and I think Purple Tree did a very good job of making some nice boss fights in the story.

Real player with 5.2 hrs in game

Ponpu on Steam

FROG X BIRD

FROG X BIRD

Once upon a time a frog

Croaked away in Bingle Bog

Every night from dusk to dawn

He croaked awn and awn and awn

Other creatures loathed his voice,

But, alas, they had no choice,

And the crass cacophony

Blared out from the sumac tree

At whose foot the frog each night

Minstrelled on till morning night

Neither stones nor prayers nor sticks.

Insults or complaints or bricks

Stilled the frogs determination

To display his heart’s elation.

But one night a nightingale

In the moonlight cold and pale

Real player with 17.3 hrs in game


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This game is EPIC fun. Brings back the old Joust days with a modern twist. I used this as a party game and we ended up playing for hours. Get 4 controllers and challenge your friends.

the basketball mode is incredible. Get the ball through the rings, so simple yet so challenging when youre friends are trying to hijack you.

I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in local gameplay and connecting with friends.

Real player with 10.4 hrs in game

FROG X BIRD on Steam