It's simple and effective. You can run on walls, slide, and climb. The shooting is responsive and the enemies challenge your abilities. There's even a few sections with zip lines and grappling. If this sounds up your alley, then Stride might be for you.
There's a couple of modes you can play, and arguably the main mode is the "endless runner" mode, which pits you against an onslaught of prefabricated concrete jungles to maneuver through. I really wish that there was a lot more variety in how these portions are generated. While familiarity with the area may be a part of parkour irl, in a game setting it leaves me a bit bored of playing the same thing over and over again. I think if they were able to implement some more open spaces into the generation (like the tutorial levels) this would dramatically increase the replayability of endless. That, combined with more random generations would help a lot.
If endlessly running forward isn't your thing you can try arena mode where you have a limited area to run around and complete missions in. These missions have several different types, and can occur in several different places across that map. Again though, I don't see why it couldn't have an option for random generation to get a different type of environment to mess around in each time. Jumping into the same arena every play session wears you down bit by bit.
The time trials are fun, and test the limits of your skills. These will have you playing chunks of the endless mode, so in theory, they can be used to practice the endless mode in bite sized chunks, which is cool in its own right, but if I had to choose these or random generation, I would choose random generation.
I haven't had time to play the multiplayer mode, and frankly I don't care about it lol. I don't have any friends in VR and many that do turn on mic are privileged children. But, if you're looking to play more Stride, and possibly with your friends... It's there for you to play.
Overall I recommend it, but the repetition needs improvements to keep me coming back for more. After 10-15 hours, seeing the same generations and the same level over and over again it gets more and more difficult to want to boot up the game. The mechanics are fun and great and all, but they can only cover up the bland environments for so long before it just isn't very fun to play anymore. That's not to say that I didn't have fun for the first 10 hours or so, as it's definitely a blast, but I can't say that I'm not slightly disappointed that an endless runner game I own doesn't actually have the kind of endless replayability I was looking for.
There's a couple of modes you can play, and arguably the main mode is the "endless runner" mode, which pits you against an onslaught of prefabricated concrete jungles to maneuver through. I really wish that there was a lot more variety in how these portions are generated. While familiarity with the area may be a part of parkour irl, in a game setting it leaves me a bit bored of playing the same thing over and over again. I think if they were able to implement some more open spaces into the generation (like the tutorial levels) this would dramatically increase the replayability of endless. That, combined with more random generations would help a lot.
If endlessly running forward isn't your thing you can try arena mode where you have a limited area to run around and complete missions in. These missions have several different types, and can occur in several different places across that map. Again though, I don't see why it couldn't have an option for random generation to get a different type of environment to mess around in each time. Jumping into the same arena every play session wears you down bit by bit.
The time trials are fun, and test the limits of your skills. These will have you playing chunks of the endless mode, so in theory, they can be used to practice the endless mode in bite sized chunks, which is cool in its own right, but if I had to choose these or random generation, I would choose random generation.
I haven't had time to play the multiplayer mode, and frankly I don't care about it lol. I don't have any friends in VR and many that do turn on mic are privileged children. But, if you're looking to play more Stride, and possibly with your friends... It's there for you to play.
Overall I recommend it, but the repetition needs improvements to keep me coming back for more. After 10-15 hours, seeing the same generations and the same level over and over again it gets more and more difficult to want to boot up the game. The mechanics are fun and great and all, but they can only cover up the bland environments for so long before it just isn't very fun to play anymore. That's not to say that I didn't have fun for the first 10 hours or so, as it's definitely a blast, but I can't say that I'm not slightly disappointed that an endless runner game I own doesn't actually have the kind of endless replayability I was looking for.