Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Non-Interactive Experience
Supported Platforms: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Supported Controllers: Oculus Remote, Oculus Touch
Best Playing Position: Standing, Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: VR seems to be able to do just about every form of entertainment media there has ever been known. From movies to music videos and now it has its sights set on comics. But this is like no comic you will ever see. Each “page” is a 360° image and really puts you into the comic rather than placing the comic around you like ‘Since They Left’ did. The story starts with the prologue and sees the hill village of Violet become killing grounds for the civil war that is raging and also the loss of our lead characters (Nero) family and friends.
Using the Oculus Remote you only get to click forward a ‘page’ or backwards, plus clicking what you want to do on the main menu. Each 360 page/VR scene fills the view and only by looking all around can you really get the drift of what is going on. There is also (all be it every so slightly) a sort of 3D depth to it and of course you don’t need me to tell you that is is very well drawn and has a classic manga style to it.
Is this the future of comics? While the old person in my thinks it is best to hold a comic, to be able to smell it and get a feel of the pages, I also really enjoyed this experience and found myself turning page after page, trying to find out what happens next. While these first few chapters are free I think as long as the price is kept low a lot of people will be happy to buy comic after comic in this style. Sure I would have been nice to have seen the classic in this style like the superheroes and Walking Deads, but sometimes it is nice to also discover a new comic with new characters. I hope this is one comic story that continues
