A GREAT NEW ADDITION TO MY VR LIBRARY A great rhythm game perfect for classical music lovers. I love that this game is quite challenging and it keeps me coming back. The visuals are stunning in VR but they are better in Mixed Reality as it blends very well with your real world environment. Custom songs are also available and they can be downloaded directly in-game which is pretty neat. The game has achievements which is always fun. I highly recommend this game if you love rhythm games.

You know, I didn't put a lot of thoughts into this game when I first heard about it, but after putting some hours in it, I was pretty impressed and surprised by how much fun it is. So we'll be going ahead and explain in detail what the game is all about. Let's get started. Battle Orbs is available right now on the Meta Quest 2, 3 and 3s. And you can get it for free! We'll talk later about how you can spend money in the game later. The developers are Mixrift who previously released a relaxing game that I really enjoyed called Fractured. This is a mellow, and very affordable 3D puzzle type of game that I recommend. But let's go ahead get back into the main course. Gameplay So Battle Orb is veeery easy to learn. When you start the game for the first time, you'll have a very short session with an orb explaining to you how to play. You're basically thrown in this arena with 4 types of orb. You and your opponent each get a turn, and every turn, you get to use a different orb. Your goal is to sling shot your orb and hit your opponent to do damage. And when all of your opponents orb are out of health, you win the game! Now, if this was it, it'd be a little too simple for me, and this is when the strategy comes in! Every orb that you see here all have special abilities. So you have to be wise in deciding which orb that you bring to the battlefield. A few example of some of my favorite orbs are the snake, who will poison every enemy that it touches and take damage on their turn. I really like the steam orb because at the end of his turn, he'll do a big steamy explosion and damage everyone that surrounds him. Then we've got the Paladin who heals everyone in her team at the end of her turn. Next one that I put on my team is the vampire, who heals himself after hitting an enemy orb. There's still an extensive amount of orbs that I haven't talked about. It's such a nice variety and you can pick any depending your play style. The strategy is nice because you have to chose carefully who you want to destroy first with the other team, because some orbs might be better than others. Something that I also want to mention is that it's not just about hitting the opponent once. If you're really good, you can hit the opponent multiple times by bouncing off a wall and hitting them again. Or other tactics like that. So far, the best I've seen is 3 hits on a single orb. A very simple way to explain the game is to think of it as if you'd be playing 3D pool by trying to hit specific balls. Between Battles So when you're not on the battlefield, you've got some management to do in the menu. First and foremost, after winning a match, you will gain access to a chest. But the chest can't be opened immediately. You need to unlock it first, which will require you to wait a certain amount of time. You have 4 available chest slots, but can only put the countdown on one at a time. Unlocking the chests will grant you gold, and orb cards for a specific class. And with these, you can increase the power of your orbs. So the next thing you need to do is to go in your collection and level up your orbs to increase their stats, since as you keep playing, you'll start going against stronger opponents too. In the collection, you'll also notice all the orb types that can be played with and how to unlock them. Some of them is just by being lucky and finding them in the chests, but some of them are also unlocked by progressing through the game and getting more winning points. The last section that you'll see in the menu is the shop, and this is where you can purchase an in game currency called green gems. With these gems, you can either unlock your chests faster, or even purchase new chests and unlock them right away. I've decided to spend a little bit of money on my end for fun, and the chests boosted my characters pretty significantly. This is all optional of course, but there's a little bit of a grind if you decide to do it without spending. Modes So the mode that you'll end up spending the most time in is ranked. You'll have 2 options here. You can play only up against one more player, or you can play with a total of 4 players. The rules doesn't change in either mode, you just get a lot more orbs that you have to destroy. Your rank score will increase if you reach first or second place, and decrease if you're lower. Since the game is still growing, you'll often be matched with bots, but I find that they do a pretty good job, I personally enjoy playing against them. And as your rank grows, you'll get harder opponents to compete against. So you always have to make sure to increase the strength of your orbs. The last mode available is simply to play with friends. Something I was worried about when I've invited a few friends to play was that my orbs might've been a little too overpowered compared to them. But I was happy to see that all orbs are adjusted to level 10 on a friendly match. So some of my best friends to play in VR with, ViperMark and Lord Beavis had some fun playing together and it was pretty well balanced. Who is this game for? Since this game is so easy to pick up, it just feels like it'd be a great game to play with friends and family of any ages. And since it's in mixed reality, it's also great if you're either trying a headset for the first time, or have been playing for a while. It's also very easy to setup. The game doesn't require any boundaries. When you start the game, it'll automatically figure out where they need to put the board, and then you can adjust it to your liking. They really made an easy and seemless experience here. What I'd like in the future. The game is now out of early access, and I hope that they continue to support it since it could be even more fun in the long run. The first change that I'd like to see is that right now, when you wait in the rank cue, they start matching you with bots within the first 10 seconds. Since the game is still fairly new, I'd like the waiting cue to be about a minute long before we start getting matched with bots since that gives a better opportunity to play with real people. It would be cool to get new orbs introduced as the game keeps growing, and even more cool if there would be some collaborations. Imagine having a gorilla tag, or an I am cat orb in there! More modes would also be awesome with different kind of ruleset. Like a team 2vs2 match or a team vs one big enemy or that has to be destroyed, or things like that. I would also love to see improvements on the grinding aspect of it. When you have 4 chest waiting to be unlocked, you don't really have a purpose to continue playing until they're unlocked. And I'd also love to see some cosmetics that you can unlock, like a new banner behind your name, or different costume for your orbs. You know, just little nice to have addition. So guys I hope that you've enjoyed today's review of Battle Orb and that it gave you a nice overview of the game. Give it a try if this peeks your interest and maybe you'll be like me and be surprised at how entertaining it is.

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