Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher

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It is not an often thing, to have an interesting game that could be really great, if not for awful and cumbersome controls. Immortal Legacy is like a VR clone of the Uncharted series, only with a much more humble storyline, graphics and with a tedious control scheme that will ruin the experience entirely, if you are not a patient kind of a gamer.

While it is not bad as an action shooter, lackluster gimmicks and unnecessary characters make both Immortal Legacy’s action and story feel like an unorganized product.

Immortal Legacy is clearly half the game it was once intended to be, with missing puzzle pieces strewn throughout. What remains, though, is an often half-decent, if mostly uneventful, shooter. Control issues aside, it’s a palatable bit of VR action that, if nothing else, suggests China’s VR development scene is making strides beyond its previous efforts. Hopefully the next wave of China-made VR games gives us something truly special.

Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher is a decent shooter with some adventure elements and a surprisingly long campaign, but also cumbersome controls and mediocre graphics.

Curious design decisions and a confusing, cumbersome control scheme help destroy the immersion, but there's a certain charm to Immortal Legacy's ambition that makes it easier to overlook its problems. It's an occasionally fun VR first-person shooter adventure that's worth a look, especially for its budget price.