Not long ago I covered Sniper Elite VR for VR Corner and gave it nods for its Half-Life: Alyx style of picking up items with the flick of a wrist. Slowly and manually swinging your arms to simulate chopping an axe at a tree, hoping it will connect correctly just isn’t very fun. I mean this in the lightest and most encouraging way possible, but this lack of forwarding leaps and bounds is evident as ever in a trying and ambitious indie title.
While that’s a really exciting concept, that level of immersion promised by that concept never really follows through: the technology in VR just isn’t there yet. Woodcutting, mining, chiselling and just about every activity has to be mimicked to just about as pinpoint precision as possible. The fact of the matter is that when you don’t have people to experience A Township Tale with, you’re going to be left feeling a little in the rough.Ī Township Tale is a game that’s crazy on the simulation scale. In my time playing, all the servers I’ve stumbled upon were empty and had as much progress as I. Though you’d be forgiven if you thought there wasn’t one. I could jump into the co-operative play, the game’s dedicated Discord does suggest a community somewhat exists. Some projects of mine have made little progress. I’ve spent a good sample time with it to get a feel and it seems I’ve hardly made a dent. It’s once again another video game that doesn’t particularly respect your time or patience. However, if you’re like I and much prefer VR as a platform for you to dip your toes in every now and then have a little fun, you’re going to be overwhelmed and maybe even a little disappointed with A Township Tale. If you’re a gamer that plays almost exclusively in VR and just read that prior paragraph, you’re likely rushing out to play it. Add the fact this is a VR experience and that provides more challenge. It just won’t be for everyone nor will it be worth it for those already invested in a time-intensive video game. This is absolutely a game that you can lose hours upon hours of time in, which will undoubtedly be a draw for many players. Unfortunately, A Township Tale doesn’t have much of that. That’s a tried and true formula but needs to be implemented well in keeping ways to entertain you through those long moments. While being light on a story, your large priority is to slowly rebuild an abandoned town. Players get to craft a typical fantasy RPG protagonist of their choosing in a workshop, complete a tutorial and then journey out into the vast world on offer. Its charm is absolutely undeniable and serves to be exciting in concept, even if I walked away from the experience feeling that it’s not for me.Ī Township Tale is absolutely an enticing premise for those that live and breathe VR as their main gaming platform of choice. Getting to play the game on Oculus Quest 2, there’s absolutely potential for the game’s community to grow. Instead, it’s jumping wholely into the sim genre, encouraging players to go out and venture, re-establishing a town from the ground up. However, it’s not doing so in a bombastic AAA fashion, nor is it a virtual playground. In a somewhat similar vein, A Township Tale is another VR entry that’s aiming to make a splash. We saw it last year with Valve’s momentous Half-Life: Alyx. Maybe you even got your toes wet in the sandbox that is BONEWORKS. Most of the excitement that has come out of VR over the past few years is the way once-in-a-blue-moon titles have pushed the platform’s envelope further.
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