Overview

Duck Season Itself

The Rest of the Game

After the succulent hit her in the eye, and she didn't react, I gave up.

The Story and World

Verdict

Category Score Graphics 3 Gameplay 4 Story 3 Music 1 Sound 2 Replayability -2 Legnth 1 Hour

Wait for Sale

I was initially having trouble pinpointing what this game actually is? What do you do in it? Plenty of things are shown in the trailer but I left the trailer feeling very confused.You shoot ducks out of the sky with a rifle and a silly dog collects them and dances around. The quality of everything in this game, and I cannot emphasize this enough, is amazing. The "Duck Season" game itself is large amounts of fun despite being so simple. This game also has a rather dark storyline that happens in between successful "Duck Season" play sessions. Every time you jump into the game, time advances and the story progresses a little farther but I'll get to that later. All this being said it is something that might be best for people who show VR off a lot. There is some replay value but for 20$ you're getting something that can be completed in about an hour.As mentioned previously the meat of this game is the "Duck Season" game within the actual game. Starting this game up literally inserts you into the TV where you shoot at ducks for points. You gain more points the more ducks you hit in a row. The shooting feels nice and does something that I've yet to see any game, VR or not, do. This is to say that your ammunition is visible as an outline when you look at your gun, it visually shows you how much ammo you have by outlining the shells in your gun which I absolutely adore as a way to show ammo in VR. When you shoot you have to pump to ready another shell and eventually grab ammo to put into your gun, again all of this feels great.My main criticism is to say that beyond shooting at some ducks there isn't much more to the "Duck Season" game. I don't think there really is anything they could have added but if this is the meat of the game then I'm a bit disappointed. I have plenty of shooting sims already in my library and I'm conflicted as to whether or not I'd actually come back to this one over others. It's as if I've ordered the best ribs I've ever had and I get one solid bite before I'm done. Still, I have to say the quality here is without question one of, if not thee, best vr experiences I've had!Outside of Duck Season itself you play as a 7-9 year old boy who is spending a summer evening in front of the telly. The game takes place over several in game hours. As you play Duck Season, VHS's, video games, toys, magazines and snacks will pile up around you. It can be kind of fun to screw around in front of the television with all this stuff. I personally made it a game to see how many things I could chuck at my mom in the kitchen before she might take notice to her son.The other "Kingbit system's" games are all played with a virtual controller gun. You shoot at the options on the TV to pick them and none stood out as something I'd do more than once. Some are pretty silly even just as a title but it's pretty clear that they aren't meant to be done more than once or twice.The VHS's you find are mostly meme's of one sort or another and all fit into the 1980's theme rather well. Some of these look to have been made just for this game and none of them are short on entertainment. My friends and I got a really good laugh at a few that were up and even recognized some old youtube videos that were neat to see in game.All in all there isn't a whole bunch to do here, just some fiddling around in between "Duck Season" sessions.The story is quite simple and short once you see and understand it but holds several surprises that I don't want to spoil. Bottom line, was it enjoyable? Yes! It quite certainly is. The 1980's atmosphere set up is great and the game had me looking over my shoulder nervously multiple times. Each session of "Duck Season." Advances time outside of the game by an hour. Around 4 o'clock, odd things start happening. It's no secret if you look at any of the trailers or tags but this is in fact classified as a horror game. Much to my own delight though it at no point says or lets that fact on. So if you have friends that come over to play VR, or maybe family, you could just throw them in and see how they react.It's not a terribly long story and we were able to finish it in about 1 hour although there was a lot of screwing around and we also had to retry one of the "Duck Season" sessions once as well as retrying the ending. Speaking of the ending there are seven of them. I've found two, the sort of "bad ending" and the "canonical ending". I scratch my head as to how you might be able to get the other 5 though. I'm sure some replay value can be found there as well as the "New Game+" option that opened up but that I did not try."Duck Season" is one of the highest quality VR experiences that you'll find. It lacks quantity, variety and length but makes up for it all with the sheer amount of love put into each idea and piece of the game. The game is by and large shooting at ducks but it breaks this up often enough that it doesn't become monotonous. I think after the first playthrough you'll probably want to stop but I can't tell you how much fun that short experience is. I've said it previously and it's kind of my verdict here but I recommend this game for a sale. If you think people will play again or if you're dying for a "shooting at things simulator" then I can certainly understand a desire to buy it. That being said I wouldn't recommend a let's play if you're bound to pick this up at some point. The surprises just wouldn't be the same without VR there.BuyWatchAvoidNever Touch