Review: Hyperide VR (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Lee F.

Hyperide VR is, for starters, a complete misnomer of a title. The “VR” really stands for “Vector Raid,” but was originally intended to double-mean “virtual reality.” The game was a VR title released on Steam over a year ago, controlled with a VR headset, now ported to the Switch and controlled with via standard inputs instead. It's just as well, since there's no official VR for the Switch, but one would think they would have taken advantage of the motion controls present in the joy-cons, perhaps by suggesting the game be played in handheld mode with the controllers connected. As for the "Hyperide" part, which is indeed not "hyper ride" or "hyperride," but "hyper-ide" like "cyan-ide.” The game itself may not be a lethal poison, but all the same, it’s hard to digest.

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