Horizon Vanguard

Horizon Vanguard

released on Jun 26, 2020

Horizon Vanguard

released on Jun 26, 2020

Blast your hovercycle through the enemy's crushing forces under a bright blue sky! Use your hovercycle to dodge enemy fire and attack armored ground targets while taking aim with your pistol to destabilize and destroy aerial foes! Use your radar to get your bearings when overwhelmed!


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A very cool VR experience that really feels like it would be a prime example of futuristic arcades like a VR space harrier. The low-poly aesthetic and varied stage designs have a lot of soul and the music even has an arcade-y feel to it. The gameplay is satisfying and it's definitely one of the more enjoyable seated VR experiences I've tried since you actually feel like you're on a cool hover-bike jetski thing. The only big flaw is the difficulty. Most of the stages are locked behind not only clearing very difficult stages on a limited lives system, but also finding and collecting a lot of cleverly-hidden intel items of which there are 3 per stage. Many intel pieces seem ridiculous to find and get on your own like jumping off a fallen pillar which gives you one 2-second chance to shoot a green button despite the game teaching you not to run into anything. Not to mention if you die and continue on a stage (which will almost certainly happen unless you spend a long time practicing them) you will be unable to use that intel to progress to the next stage which I feel is very unfair and it could've just locked you out of the leaderboard instead. As a person who sorely dislikes repeating the same levels over and over again to practice later ones, I just turned on the invincibility mode so I could see all the stages after a few runs and had plenty of fun doing so. They did end up adding a re-balanced difficulty mode but I haven't tried it yet. Still strongly recommend giving it a shot.