Played some Damaged Core tonight. Seems pretty well done so far. Can tell it won't be an easy game, I wasn't sure I was going to pass the introduction mission on my first try. You can tell it still has some roots in the wave shooter idea, but it seems quite a bit more refined than what I've played in VR to date. Even the introduction mission is pretty much more fleshed out than any of these kind of games I've played on the Vive really, and the unique take of kind of jumping from enemy to enemy as disposable life bars makes things a bit more interesting.
Definitely a game I recommend playing standing; you're not really dodging so much here (I don't know as you could avoid much enemy fire anyway, they're pretty serious) but your position has to sort of be managed by the enemy position that is moving when you aren't in control of one trying to move on some objective. So you'll sometimes have to grab an enemy who's got targets on either side of it, or facing the opposite direction of what your particular focus might be that second.
Pretty polished visually for what they're trying to do in VR here, though I would like to see the weapons have a little more intensity to them. The enemy reactions are actually pretty good, but I'd like a little more kick and audio impact, at least of the weapons I saw in the first mission. It was cool though how even in the first mission you have a variety of enemies of different scale, including some big ass ~20 foot tall dudes with laser beams and flying deals that you have to target some particular components with other enemies before you can hack them and take control.
For $30 I feel pretty good about the purchase so far.
