Despite its inherent flaws and strange design choices, it's not by any means a bad game. It's just really not a very good one, either. You can have some fun with it, and it might even be a good way to introduce new people to VR. But at the end of the day Smash Hit Plunder feels more like a tech demo stretched out into a full game, without adding anything...
Smash Hit Plunder2018
Smash Hit Plunder
2018 Triangular Pixels66Worthwhile
Playable on
Available on
- $14.99
Game modes
- 2–4 players
Details
- Launch
- December 11, 2018
- Developer
- Triangular Pixels
- Publisher
- Triangular Pixels
- Themes
- Genres
Overview
Smash Hit Plunder is a PlayStation®VR tear-it-up set in a medieval castle and its sprawling surroundings. You play as a mage – you think you’ve just inherited the castle of your dreams from your family, but actually it’s been magically locked up by a ghostly debt collector. Now it’s down to you to find enough hidden treasure in the castle to pay off the debt… Thanks, wasteful ancestors! Go on treasure hunts, defeat your enemies and hide from ghosts as you plunder your way through a castle in virtual reality. Grab your loot and keep smashing!
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Reception
Press64
Worthwhile- Metacritic65from 9 reviews
- OpenCritic63from 6 reviews
So the game has charm, looks cool, and sets up a fairly interesting narrative to drive you to pay off the castle debt but then you start playing. The first five or ten minutes are fun as you pick up objects and throw or break them to see if they are hiding any treasure. Any discovered treasure you pick up to pay off your debt when you return to the...
Smash Hit Plunder is another fun and enjoyable VR experience that would have benefited from a more varied approach to how the gameplay is implemented. Still, it is worth purchasing if you need a game in VR where you just break stuff.
Don't get me wrong. Smash Hit Plunder is an extremely entertaining game. However, if you're playing the game in single-player exclusively, expect to get burned out rather swiftly. Unfortunately, aside from keeping onlookers busy, the social screen mechanics don't deliver much more than an interactive distraction until they get their next turn under...
The new PlayStation VR game Smash Hit Plunder is a fine diversion, but the game lacks depth and has some considerable navigation control issues.