Monster Slayer: Motion Edition Is the Ultimate Motion-Sensing Disaster You’ll Love to Hate

Hello everyone. Let’s talk about Monster Slayer: Motion Edition, a game that proudly proclaims you won’t need a VR headset. Instead, you’ll flail around in your living room like you’re re-enacting a bad 80’s aerobics video, except this time your webcam is the voyeur. Yes, the future of gaming is apparently… Kinect’s weird cousin making a dramatic comeback.

The Premise – Webcam Wizardry or Waving Madness?

No VR headset? Check. A standard 360p webcam is all you need, because nothing says “immersive” like a blurry image of you sweating profusely while trying to slay a polygonal spider queen. It does 1:1 movement tracking which, translated into plain English, means that swinging your arm in real life makes your game character swing a sword, shoot a bow, or fling fireballs. Revolutionary? Perhaps… if you’ve been living in a cave since 2006.

The game offers three classes: Archer, Shadow Ninja, and Elemental Mage. In medical terms, that’s “arm tendonitis,” “rotator cuff injury,” and “full body inflammation” respectively. Each class brags about unique combat – which is true if by “unique” you mean “different ways to flail.”

The Progression System – Loot Boxes Without the Microtransactions (Yet)

You get random loot chests that offer attack boosts like Fire, Multi-shot, or Cyclone and defensive buffs like Shields and Lifesteal. The cherry on this suspicious sundae? “Auto-difficulty adjustment based on movement intensity.” Yes, the game will quietly judge you for getting winded in level two and will scale back the challenge so you can still feel like a hero while gasping for breath. It’s like a personal trainer that doesn’t yell at you, just quietly lowers the treadmill speed.

The Modes – Story vs. Endless

Story mode offers twelve levels of increasingly absurd boss fights. You’ll face the Storm Hawks, a Venom Queen, and finally an Ultimate Dragon – all of which translate to “more aggressive calorie burners for your living room.” And then there’s Endless mode, which is the dark souls of cardio workouts. You can keep battling until your heart monitor beeps or your webcam judges you unfit to continue.

Technical Bits – Or, How Powerful Does My Calculator Need to Be?

Minimum requirements aren’t too bad – an aging i5 CPU, a humble GTX 1050, and 4GB RAM. Sounds innocent enough. The recommended setup asks for GTX 1650 and 8GB RAM, which is still fairly reasonable. The real killer feature is that nothing works without that trusty webcam. Without it, you’re basically buying a game where you can’t even push buttons to play – a bold, if stupid, design decision. Oh, and starting January 2024, Windows 10 or later only. Because obviously, fighting pixel dragons is impossible on Windows 7.

The Experience – Fun or Fitness Class in Disguise?

This game might appeal to those who actually miss the Kinect era, or parents trying to trick their sedentary kids into moving more. Gamers expecting depth, nuance, or actual skill-based play beyond “how fast can you windmill your arms before your webcam loses tracking” will quickly realize this is more gimmick than game. As a doctor, I can diagnose this as a mild case of Wii-itis, with a strong chance of repetitive strain injury. As a gamer, I can slap a label of “motion-sensing shovelware” until it proves otherwise.

Conclusion – My Diagnosis

At best, this is light entertainment for an evening with friends where you all pretend you’re not laughing at each other’s awkward poses. At worst, it’s a doomed attempt to revive a failed motion-sensing gimmick from gaming history. The novelty will wear off faster than your patience when the tracking thinks your crouch means “cast whirlwind.” Verdict? Bad. Fun for a quick laugh, maybe a workout, but hardly the monster-slaying epic it pretends to be.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is entirely my opinion.

Article source: Monster Slayer: Motion Edition, https://store.steampowered.com/app/3887760/Monster_Slayer_Motion_Edition/