…I am still fucking sweating (and my arms (and wrists) are sore) as I type this! Beat Saber is possibly the best $20 I’ve used in a long time. And screw those minimum system requirements! The game runs beautifully on my computer!
So what is Beat Saber? Let me explain this in a better way. Remember when I wanted to buy a PS4, just for GTA5? Beat Saber is similar to that.
Beat Saber is a game where the player slices boxes coming towards them with two lightsabers. The box color shows the required saber color to slice it, and the directional arrow shows the required angle it can be sliced. Some boxes have a circle on them, which means they can be sliced in any direction.
And bombs are to be avoided with the sabers.
The game starts off with about 10 songs (each varying in intensity), and can be increased as big as the player’s hard drive (or SSD) can handle (all for free) by getting the latest version of the Beat Saber Mod Manager (here).
With this, you’ll be able to tap into ‘Beat Saver’; an ingame website that the player can download actual songs (converted to Beat Saber) by the community, such as the Skyrim theme song, or even.. the song in the title.
These have a set difficulty, and if you (as the player) are just starting out, look to the left and there’s settings, such as No Fail (the song won’t end if the player doesn’t keep their energy level high enough), No Obstacles (not having to dodge walls of energy coming at the player, and a few others.
Note that the player’s final score will not be posted online, if they use either (or both) of the two aid options. It’s entirely up to the player if they don’t mind this.
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And holy fuck can some of those songs give me a workout!! I swear I was going to break my controllers in half a few times, for how frequent the boxes were coming at me!
So if you have a Vive, Oculus, or even Windows Mixed Reality (even with a bare bones
VR-ready PC), you owe it to yourself to buy this game. It can get quite addicting.
One thing I would like to see, is an easy implementation of MP3s into a Beat Saber format. There’s probably a way to do it, but for ‘easy’.. I doubt it. I believe that you have to script where the blocks show up, how frequent they are, and any obstacles. Maybe in the future, the devs might come up with an easier solution.
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This thing also has (beta) multiplayer support (playing against your friends on Steam), but it’s a bit tedious to get set up. It’s also quite buggy. You’ll still be able to beat your saber(s) by yourself, and at the end (where it shows your score and your ranking), it shows nothing but a blank screen.
So here’s to hoping this is fixed in the future. It’s pretty wild seeing one of my friends in my boundary.