There’s a fair few VR platforming mascots that have come and gone, the likes of Astro Bot and Lucky graduating to broader flatscreen adventure, leaving a gap for new heroes to fill.
Enter the quite adorable, yet inexplicably named Max Mustard. Can he make the cut?The game begins with a large, tentacle-y alien robot kidnapping a bunch of adorable critters, called Mudpups.
Just as it’s about to get its tentacles on you, Max Mustard turns up and scares it off, so you immediately team up with Mustard to fight off the alien’s various minions and save the Mudpups.
By controlling Max with your robot-VR-controller hands. It’s a platformer, it doesn’t need to make perfect sense.The platforming in Max Mustard is similar to that of his VR platforming predecessors.
It’s essentially a classic platformer but rendered in a world that’s wrapped around you in 3D, so you can physically move your head to look around and follow the character through the world.