C-Smash VRS Review
A Japanese exclusive Dreamcast block smashing game probably isn’t the most obvious choice for a virtual reality revival, yet it’s actually a genuinely brilliant fit. Blending together closed courts to bounce balls around like a game of squash with the action puzzle block breaking of Breakout, C-Smash VRS actually an inspired choice and one of the best sporty games on PlayStation VR 2.
Like a 2001 A Space Odyssey’s star baby, you’re born into the cosmos, zooming into a star system and floating amongst the planets until you reach out and grab the small block that floats in the aether. That block turns into a racket, and you’re suddenly brought into a spartan space station where the only goal seems to be to play racket sports.
Whether you know your games or not, C-Smash VRS is immediately simple to grasp. You have a bat in hand, a ball to hit, and you’re trying to bounce it off blocks. Whether it’s real-world ping-pong, squash, tennis or just bouncing a ball off a wall, you know what to do. It’s brilliantly intuitive to play within VR, though obviously demands that you have decent hand-eye coordination, track the ball well enough and learn how to aim, apply a bit of speed and arcing spin to the ball. The physics aren’t fully realistic and getting the ball to go where you want is tricky, but with the trail following the ball as it flies and the simplicity of just knocking it back, you’re brought into this game’s interpretation of zero-G sports.
As minimalist as the game’s visual style is, there’s also just a ton of fun little touches sprinkled throughout the game. In the main menu, look through the window to your side and there could be astronauts bouncing off pads, as you load into a multiplayer game, you’re greeted by a DJ
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