I liked this game and thought it was a fun call back to N64 platformers, but it didn't capture the same magic as the retro games did for me. The levels were still fun and had some good elements to the platforming and unique mechanics, but the controls felt a bit janky at times with the more involved movement options (even though I liked them in theory). Some of the collectibles were a bit too cryptic to find with the given hints as well. It was fun that there were easter eggs to find upon finding all the eggs and also it was nice to have for finishing the encyclopedia.

I had a great time playing this game. It was a nice little indie game that seemed to be a very core collectathon 3D platformer with a lot of Rareware inspiration. My favorite thing about it was all the power-ups and how they felt pretty original, especially the hydrophobic mushroom. The areas were all unique and interesting and I really liked going between areas through backdoors to find hidden collectables. The game also does a great job of helping you "clean up" missing collectables by giving hints and upgrades to find them. Only things I didn't particularly like were the juxtaposition between the "realistic" texturing on the animals and stylized texturing on the maps, the platforming could be a little janky mostly because of the character being long, and I ran into a glitch where there was a lot of unplayable lag in some areas that I had to reboot the game to fix.

I played Sonic Unleashed as a kid but came back to it now, both times on Wii. The most frustrating part of the game was the motion controls for basic movements, but I can't count that against the game because even the Wii version allows the use of a Pro controller that I don't own. Outside of that, the game almost functions, there were far too many deaths from inputs, including button inputs, just not doing anything for an indiscernible reason. The day time Sonic levels have the same issue that every Sonic game has where it's too fast and you end up needing to memorize the level to get through OR you can go slow which defeats the purpose of playing a Sonic game due to it being Sonic's only gameplay-defining trait. The night time Sonic levels were more fun because they contained some platforming but got broken up too much from the same set of 4 or 5 enemies that have the same 2 songs through the entire playthrough. Almost every in between level felt like a complete waste of my time because there's nothing of value from talking to the people especially when there's long loads between actions. Also, lives in the game being 3 tries until a game over isn't horrible, but the amount of loading screens you have to go through after you die by being sent back to the main menu is atrocious.

Moss was a great experience and VR added a lot to the design. The narrative, although simple, kept me interested the whole time, and it seems like being in VR making you a true part of the story felt more captivating. The gameplay itself was fun and couldn't be done as well without the VR. It might not have been as complex, but the areas felt quite Zelda-like in the best ways possible. All the trinkets and dust hidden around to give me more to enjoy were great and well hinted too. I think the main things holding this game back was a lack of complexity in the character gameplay-wise with basically only having sword swing mouse/grab stuff reader and VR technology as a whole just isn't quite there yet to not cause me headaches from long-term play.