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  • 3 months ago
Pixel Ripped 1989 REVIEW on Quest 3

Embark in a thrilling nostalgia-fueled VR game about the history of gaming itself! Fight the most unique monsters and restore the balance of multiple dimensions! Have the adventure of a lifetime in this game-within-a-game where YOU are the hero that helps the protagonist Dot save the gaming world as we know it! Play through challenging throwbacks to all your favorite classics from the 80s and 90s inside a virtual reality world, everything while maneuvering through the real-life challenges by doing what he does best - playing video games!

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01 - Game Menus - 5/5
02 - weapons/vehicles - 4/5
03 - Playable characters - 5/5
04 - Enemies and bosses. - 5/5
05 - levels and size - 4/5
06 - Campaign, multiplayer, co-op - NA
07 - Customisation options - NA
08 - levelling up options - NA
09 - Controls - 4/5
10 - Online playability - NA
11 - Puzzles - 3/5
12 - MR/Pass Through - NA

TOTAL = 30/35

I don’t include graphics in my rating system because you can see for yourself the graphics in the video.

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Intro Music by Gareth Gittins:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdY1-aNLf97ZRwRtfRFNyA

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Transcript
00:00I played Pixel Ripped 1978 then I played Pixel Ripped 1995 and now I have just
00:26finished playing Pixel Ripped 1989. Like before you are a time traveler and have
00:32to take control over the best player of that year to play a series of games to
00:38save the world from doom. As usual they blend games together so well taking it
00:45from the handheld console to bringing it into a VR setting and the backdrops look
00:50amazing with plenty of items to reference from the 80s. I really do like
00:56how challenging the games were in this. It gave me that frustration feeling I
01:01haven't felt since playing on the Commodore 64 when getting stuck on
01:05certain sections because not only did you need to be good at games but you
01:10needed to be a master at the controllers too knowing how and when to push which
01:15buttons. I swear I got stuck on the most simple parts of this game which should
01:21have taken five seconds but because I died I had to restart and then it takes
01:2630 minutes or so all because I couldn't get my character to run and jump at the
01:32crucial moments. Infuriating! They mix modern in with retro in this game just
01:38perfectly. The ideas are great such as sitting in the classroom as a child
01:43sneakily trying to play your games console as the teacher tries teaching a
01:49lesson but if she catches you look out you will have to totally restart your
01:54game from the beginning. Well that level anyway. But there are things you can do
01:59to distract her like shoot a screwed up piece of paper at a stereo to blast
02:04music or add a projector which breaks or at the waste paper bin which brings out
02:11some other kind of surprise. The story is similar to the others but it's told
02:16in a fun way and the interactions with other characters are fun. Now the worst
02:21point about this game is how it saves or should I say how it doesn't save.
02:27Sometimes it takes a long time to reach an end of level like four or five stages
02:33and then when you get to that final stage you get fed up of doing the same
02:38thing 15 times over so you might want to give up and try again the next day.
02:44Only it doesn't save by the stages. You will have to restart the entire level
02:50again. To me that's a huge no. I got stuck at the very end for an hour on the
02:56final boss. You have to kill her three times. I got to the third bit but if you
03:03die you start again. I must have done this 15 times but then I had to leave to
03:09pick my kids up for school thinking that when I came back I would start at the
03:14final boss again but it didn't. I had to restart that entire level again. That was
03:20just enough to put me off playing this game. I know I was at the end but I
03:25refused to go through all that frustration again. So now I've played all
03:30three. Which one is the best I hear you ask? Well in order I would say 1995, 1989,
03:391978 but get all three if you get the chance as this series really is a lot of
03:46fun. So I'm going to score Pixel Ripped 1989 a 30 out of 35 and you can find my
03:55scoring system in the description section below. Now please push that like
03:59button if you found this review helpful. Drop a comment on the thoughts of this
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04:08Thanks guys and happy gaming.