11 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 23.7 hrs on record (1.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: Mar 20, 2024 @ 1:36pm
Updated: Mar 20, 2024 @ 1:37pm
Product received for free

It's a low cost mashup of Beat Saber + Pistol Whip + Supernatural VR Fitness = SolarBlack
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Beat Saber is the big name in the action-rhythm genre that everyone knows. You smack colored orbs with glow sticks while listening to music. Solid game play, good selection of music tracks and industry standard hit detection.

Pistol Whip takes the same concept and uses pistols instead of glow sticks. The ballet of bullets and beats tries to focus on letting you feel like an action hero.

Supernatural VR Fitness[www.getsupernatural.com] takes the same concept and puts the focus on fitness, expanding what it offers to include meditation and even coaching.

Where does Solarblack fall into all of this? You've got the sabers from Beat Saber, the guns from Pistol Whip and the rhythm, music and visual styling feel more inline with a fitness routine like Supernatural.

Comparing all 4 games, Beat Saber has the better hit detection and a wider selection of songs than Solarblack. Pistol Whip has the better immersion and action-hero feel to your game experience. And Supernatural has a more structured fitness plan and available coaching if you need it. However, all three of those will cost you substantially more. Both Beat Saber and Pistol Whip come in at double the base price and go up from there with DLC add ons. And Supernatural is a monthly subscription model that will add up to over $100 a year.

Either you're skipping those games to save some money or you're buying this to add variety to your game line up. Overall it's a fun game, but in some ways you get what you pay for and that's both a positive and a negative. Those are all slightly better games with more music variety, but you're also paying notably more.
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Bottomline: Either you're looking for a lower cost action-rythm VR game or just another alternative to your lineup in the same style.
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