Beat Saber
While Virtual Reality has been a thing all the way back since 1957 the technology hasn't been truly convincing until know. VR games have a headset that is placed onto your head and has 2 lenses that give the illusion of something being real or right in front of you. You control these games with 2 controllers that are specifically designed to be held in both hands. After the technology become so advanced in recent years, one game has stood out amongst the others, Beat Saber. Released in May of 2018 Beat Saber, a rhythm game, was an instant hit. While it may not be one of the earliest VR games ever released some have gone as far as to call it the best VR game ever.
Being a rhythm game, Beat Saber involves you listening to music and in a way that get you into the beat of it. You wield two things that look like lightsabers in each hand, red and blue respectively. With these sabers you hit blocks that come at you to the beat of the song with the correct color and direction. For example, if you have a red block with an arrow on the top of the block that points downward, you have to hit it with the red saber downwards on the top of it. The game also features 5 difficulties being easy, medium, hard, expert, and expert+. The difficulty, as it ramps up, introduces blocks coming faster at you and there will be more blocks making you focus on multiple of them at times. You also have a point system where the closer you get your cut to the middle of the block, the more points with an 8x multiplayer when you get a combo of blocks. As a new player, playing the first 5 seconds of an expert+ map may seem like it's just hard because there's no flow in it. Usually though all songs of all difficulties will try to get the player to move a certain way, though it may not be obvious when first playing a song. Good enough players can play on harder maps and not even pay attention since they know how the song wants them to move in a certain pattern allowing them to not put their full attention into it.
Beat Saber has multiple songs already implemented into it and has extra DLC songs with the draw back being you have to pay to play them. You could be playing for a long time until you can beat all of the songs. It would take even longer to beat all of them on expert+. If you got really good at a song there are a variety of challenges you can add including disappearing arrows, speed up, and ghost notes. Disappearing arrows will only show the direction when the blocks spawn in for a second, speed up speeds up the song and therefore the speed of blocks coming at you, and ghost notes fade in and out. If your goal isn't to do expert+ though you could play a multiplayer game with friends or random people online. The multiplayer just has people picking songs that are already in Beat Saber and seeing who gets more points. You could also install mods into your game and play custom songs created by people around the world.
Mods allow the user to do multiple things such as change your saber model and give you a new playlist of downloaded songs. Mods are not officially supported though so you'll have to find an online tutorial on how to install them. Once you get them installed though you can play custom songs that users have created. Usually these custom songs aren't really new songs that people have created. Custom songs usually refers to a song taken that already existed and creating the blocks or beats for the song.
