{"id":338892,"date":"2017-04-20T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/04\/20\/rick-and-morty-vr-virtual-rickality\/21|22047231"},"modified":"2017-04-20T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:00:00","slug":"virtual-rick-ality-is-a-vr-treat-for-rick-and-morty-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/virtual-rick-ality-is-a-vr-treat-for-rick-and-morty-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Virtual Rick-ality&#8217; is a VR treat for &#8216;Rick and Morty&#8217; fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"73\">\n<p>The game puts you in the role of a lowly Morty clone who&#8217;s initially created just to do Rick&#8217;s dirty laundry. That menial task serves as a cheeky way to learn how to interact with the environment, a loving recreation of Rick&#8217;s garage lab. You&#8217;ll notice plenty of callbacks to jokes from the show, but you won&#8217;t get much of a chance to explore them at first. For the task at hand, all you need to do is throw the dirty laundry into the washer, add some detergent, and you&#8217;re done. If you start fumbling and take too long, Rick and the actual Morty won&#8217;t waste any time berating you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6frKRN2HzI?wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eventually you&#8217;re tasked with retrieving an intergalactic delivery using a clone of Mr. Meseeks \u2014 a character that&#8217;s originally introduced in the show, but serves a very different purpose here. It exists purely to mimic all of your movement in VR, and it comes out of a device resembling a Poke Ball from Pokemon. Since you can throw that device anywhere, the clone ends up being a smart way to interact with objects outside of your virtual play space. And, after playing <em>plenty<\/em> of VR games, its ability to mimic your movements feels very original.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout <em>Virtual Rick-ality<\/em>, you&#8217;ll notice plenty of mechanical similarities to the popular VR title <em>Job Simulator.<\/em> Both games were developed by Owlchemy labs, after all. Instead of flipping burgers, you&#8217;re given jobs befitting the weird world of <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>. The mere act of recharging a battery becomes an exhausting battle to turn dials, flip switches and pull levers. It&#8217;s a bit infuriating at first (especially if your VR setup has tracking hiccups), but eventually I got into the flow of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>I played the game using an Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers, and it was a mostly pleasant experience. I could only play it in a small area, but Vive users can also play it with room-scale tracking, which gives you a bit more freedom to walk around the virtual environments. Since you&#8217;re spending much of the time teleporting around and grabbing objects, <em>Virtual Rick-ality<\/em> isn&#8217;t very intense. Instead, it&#8217;s more focused on the little details, like recreating the interface for Rick&#8217;s computer, or developing a complex puzzle to fix Rick&#8217;s spaceship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"46\">\n<p>Audio cassettes scattered throughout the world also hide short sketches between Rick and Morty, which are particularly entertaining if you&#8217;re a fan of Roiland&#8217;s voice work (he portrays both characters). And speaking of voice actors, you&#8217;ll also hear from the actors playing Morty&#8217;s sister Summer (Spencer Smith) and father (Chris Parnell). Together with a strong script, I often felt like I was actually living through an episode of the series, drunken profanity and all.<\/p>\n<p>The one downside of <em>Virtual Rick-ality?<\/em> It&#8217;s clearly a game made for fans, which might make some players feel left out. Why is Rick such an abusive alcoholic? What&#8217;s the deal with al the intergalactic junk in the garage? The game doesn&#8217;t spend any time filling in the blanks. Newcomers should check out a few episodes of the show to make sure its humor gels with you. For everyone else, <em>Virtual Rick-ality<\/em> is the perfect way to hold you over until <em>Rick and Morty&#8217;s<\/em> third season kicks off this summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/3ff379c556715f7c7dabaf86acabbb06\/205184583\/rick%2Band%2Bmorty%2Bvr-ed.jpg\" \/>Rick and Morty is one of the funniest shows on television &#8212; and it&#039;s also one of the weirdest. Co-created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (Community), the series is like a demented spin on the Doc Brown\/Marty McFly relationship from Back to the Fut&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-338892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}