F5 cycles through what to show in the bottom-left corner, the UI, the Blade and Sorcery logo, or nothing.

F4 allows the camera to be fixed on a particular object in the world and most logically works with the free camera view. F1-F3 allow the video pass-through to be adjusted to different perspectives, with F1 being a true 1-to-1 view of what the player is seeing, F2 being that same view but without the periphery “ring of blood” to indicate damage the player has received, and F3 being a completely free-floating camera that a spectator can manipulate using the keyboard. When launching the game for the first time, the player might notice that a listing of actions assigned to the F1-F5 keys as well as the spacebar is present in the bottom-left corner of the screen. After all, why bother programming such a system if it is ultimately meaningless? The answer segues nicely into one of the novel things about Blade and Sorcery: its spectator view options. In fact, the presence of these customization options and the lack of any kind of advantage or disadvantage to placing the sliders in one arrangement or another creates a bit of a mystery. That’s not to say that the character creation system is completely unnecessary. Unlike the character creation system in other games, such as Bethesda titles, there are no skills to adjust to make the game play any differently from one character to another, and a perfect digital match to the player wearing the headset performs just as well as any kind of randomized slider abomination of a character possible. Clicking on one of these slots starts the character creation system, though this is really nothing more than simply a way to dictate how the character looks. No word on any kind of PSVR port, and judging by the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements of an i5, 8GB of RAM, and a 1060 for the former and an i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 1070 for the latter, I wouldn’t be surprised if a PSVR version is simply impossible.īlade and Sorcery opens to a character selection screen with three empty character slots. Per the game’s Steam page, it supports Rift, Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

Blade and Sorcery is listed as an Early Access game on both the Steam and Oculus stores with a $20 price tag. The game is the labor of love of a single developer who until recently only went by their online handle but more recently started a development company, though I’m unsure as to whether it is a company of one person or not, that goes by the name Warpfrog. All men are made of water, do you know this? If you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.”īlade and Sorcery is a VR fighting game with a medieval flair to it. This is the Braavo’s dance, the water dance, it is swift and sudden. Remember, child, this is not the dance of the Westeros we are learning, the knight’s dance, hacking and hammering, no.

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