Recent reviews by BillMcdougal

This is one of the current reasons to own VR. I'm not sure I would have bought a headset when I did if it were not for Beat Saber. It did not disappoint. This game scratches the music game itch perfectly. It looks incredibly hard to master, but manages to be surprisingly natural to start picking up the basics. It will get you sweating. It will see you attaining the music game flow state. Don't wait for a sale.

I was pleasantly surprised by The Bridge. The controls are very simple, but the puzzles get quite tricky.

On a gamepad, the left stick controls your character while the triggers rotate the world. That combines with physics and perspective tricks to make for some good challenges. You may need to rotate a level enough to get around to one side, but while making sure a key doesn't fall off of the level from its precarious perch.

The controls for the character feel very slow, which I would usually hate, but I think that the ability to rewind when experimenting made up for the sluggish controls.

I thought that the difficulty level personally was a really satisfying curve that kept each puzzle feeling like an accomplishment without getting too hard...until the last level; I had to actually look up that single solution. My girlfriend watched and helped with some puzzles, so it only took about 2 hours or so to complete the main game.

You should buy this on sale.

I have an odd relationship with shmups because I'm not that great at them. I don't always manage to complete all of the highest regarded ones. The best just feel awesome to play, though.

This game has a silly name but the triggers (if on a controller) rotate the screen around the action. This lets you turn a screen full of bullets into a single line and then use a laser to blast the bullets apart for points. It sounds like a gimmick but it's a lot of fun and provides a really interesting challenge and a one of the most fun and unique scoring systems I've seen.

The rotation mechanic is also important because you auto-kill items and enemies that are in the background, which you can only see/target if you are rotated a certain way. There are sections where you have to keep your screen facing "forward" to destroy obstacles in the way, while balancing the need to rotate to survive enemy shots.

I think there may be 4 levels with bosses. I'm not sure because I have only managed to beat the stage 3 boss in the single mission mode. I'm definitely going back though, and I recommend it highly.