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  • Summary: A wise man once said: If all you have are bats for hands, everything feels like a baseball. From the creators of WHAT THE GOLF? comes a silly VR game about navigating life with baseball bats for hands. Swing your way through over 100 levels of batting, cooking, shooting, smashing, parking,A wise man once said: If all you have are bats for hands, everything feels like a baseball. From the creators of WHAT THE GOLF? comes a silly VR game about navigating life with baseball bats for hands. Swing your way through over 100 levels of batting, cooking, shooting, smashing, parking, painting, pickling, petting, and WHATnot. Experience fully immersive silliness in a first-person experience like no other!

    Features:
    - 100+ unique levels of physical comedy and craziness!
    - Wholesome original soundtrack!
    - Pet a dog, pickle a tractor, and take selfies with The Selfie Bat!
    - The expected playtime is 4 hours, but remember to take breaks (too much VR can drive you batty)
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Mar 24, 2023
    85
    A real gem in the VR space, What the Bat is distilled fun with just a pair of baseball bats and goofy characters. This game is an example of how great game design wins over fancy graphics or physics and is able to create genuine fun.
  2. 80
    What The Bat? doesn't really do a whole lot to make it an essential experience among the PlayStation VR2 launch window of titles, but if PSVR2 is your first VR headset ever, then you'd only be doing yourself a favour to jump into Triband's hilarious and fun bats-for-hands world.
  3. Mar 24, 2023
    80
    Don’t let What the Bat’s absurd premise stop your baseball bat for hands move through hours of hilarious puzzles - and recapturing simple childhood fun - that hits a home run over the new PSVR 2 console.
  4. Mar 27, 2023
    74
    What the Bat? isn’t going to set the VR world on fire with it’s ground-breaking use of VR tech, but it is going to make VR fans looking for a simple, fun game smile and laugh for a few hours. With a barrage of minigames and weirdo mechanics, this game radiates creativity and fun. Just, uh, don’t expect any baseball.
  5. Feb 16, 2023
    70
    With a positively batty sense of humour, What The Bat? is a thoroughly daft VR successor to What The Golf? and the best baseball game I've played in years – also the only baseball game I've played.
  6. Mar 6, 2023
    70
    You will need some space to play; the game requires a roomscale environment, owing to all the arm-swinging. You won't need to move from your standing position, so the requirement feels a touch restrictive. Still, if you're able to meet the necessary floorspace, What the Bat is a very silly but entertaining PSVR2 title. While short, the good news is that more content is on the way, so there's even more madness to enjoy beyond launch.
  7. PLAY
    Mar 8, 2023
    70
    Not as consistently inventive or as funny as we’d like, but still a great physics playground to mess around in and get used to what PSVR2 has to offer. [Issue#25, p.67]

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  3. Negative: 1 out of 1
  1. Mar 2, 2023
    4
    Considering it's mechanics this is a very simple VR game, and that's what makes it very suitable for beginners. You don't move around veryConsidering it's mechanics this is a very simple VR game, and that's what makes it very suitable for beginners. You don't move around very much and therefore are unlikely to experience motion sickness. The graphics are simplistic as well but functional. It's not very long and has not much replayability. I would advise to wait for a sale. I can't recommend it for children because it contains political indoctrination. I would've given the game a 7 but because of this just a 4. Expand