Finally, a game brave enough to ask: 'What if your hands were baseball bats?'
Makers of the brilliantly funny What the Golf? are back, this time in VR, with What the Bat?
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As VR technology grows in complexity, it allows us to do more complex things in games. Our virtual hands, once only capable of being able to open and close, have progressed to the point where we can, well, point. Make specific gestures. Type, press buttons with individual fingers, manipulate objects, and perform delicate tasks.
But the hell with all that. Forget carefully rendered hands in VR and think about this instead: What if you hands were baseball bats? Huh? What then, genius? Could you still fry an egg, brush your teeth, or pet your dog?
Of course you can, it's just trickier, and that's the point. What the Bat? is the next game from developer Triband, the creators of the incredibly funny and surprising not-golf game What the Golf?, and this time the slapstick comedy is taking place in VR. The premise is, your hands are bats, but you still need to complete a bunch of minigames which include: