Recent reviews by atiaxi

It's Rocket Science for the rest of us, what's not to like?

Never have I felt more like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ninja than while playing this game. Multi-story jumps, wall-running, bullet time, deflecting bullets with my blade, sliding across the floor and slicing baddies in half while I do it, it's basically living in an action movie.

Only caveat is that if you're prone to motion sickness, there are going to be movement options that are off the table; while it does do some teleporting, for the most part the camera is following your jumps, flips, etc. As someone with a somewhat sensitive stomach when it comes to VR myself, though, I did get used to it, so there's hope :)

This is more of a 'maybe' recommendation, but when you come down to it that's essentially a 'no'.

First, the good: The parts of this book that are like an ordinary Choice of Games book (which is, in terms of volume, most of it), are decent. Allying/betraying the pirates, getting to know the crew, inscrutable aliens, and building up a powerbase: all good.

But, several times throughout the book, you'll be asked a brainteaser. E.g. one of those "what number comes next in this series" questions. And then you, personally, have to figure it out and answer. It doesn't matter that your character's a world-class hacker whose brain could run circles around anyone else on board, you have to do these problems yourself (or, for some of them, use google).

These segments are mostly toward the beginning and end, but every time they come up it completely kills the momentum of the story. It pulled me out of the "enjoying the experience" groove and into "oh goody math homework". And toward the end you'll be enduring four or five in a row as the aliens seek to test your knowledge (and again, not that of your character's).

In short, it's a decent book made worse by some very jarring distractions.