Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality

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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Simulation game
Mode(s)Single-player

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality is a virtual reality game compatible with HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift developed by Owlchemy Labs and published by Adult Swim Games for Microsoft Windows on April 20, 2017. It is based on the American animated series Rick and Morty, whose series co-creator Justin Roiland aided in the development. A port for the PlayStation 4 was released on April 10, 2018.[1]

Gameplay

Clone Morty interacts with his surroundings

Using

warping, and a being called Mr. Youseeks[nb 1] can be summoned to aid in unreachable chores.[2][3][4]

Plot

Rick creates a clone of his grandson Morty in their garage, demanding that he do the laundry. With the chore complete, Rick explains the clone is not of use anymore and shoots him. Clone Morty appears in Purgatory, but is given the choice to return to the garage. The next chore is to obtain a device from outside the garage, but since the clone is not allowed to leave, he summons a being called Mr. Youseeks that imitates his every motion to aid in his task. The device is revealed to be faulty. Rick says to order another, but the computer must be repaired to do so. The new device is delivered, which Clone Morty attaches to a plunger
to retrieve a seed stuck in the toilet.

The seed is employed to upgrade Rick's spaceship, but eventually it breaks down at a celestial nature preserve. Clone Morty teleports to the scene, where they are caught trespassing. Rick equips Clone Morty with firearms to fight off the Galactic Federation while the spaceship is being repaired. However, Clone Morty is abandoned at the nature preserve and is instructed to commit suicide. In Purgatory, Clone Morty decides once more to return to the garage. He is commanded by Rick to incubate an egg found at the nature preserve until it hatches. From out of the egg hatches a childlike alien who has the clone complete a makeshift signalling device. When Rick returns to the garage, he kills the alien and leaves.

The antenna summons two increasingly large members of the alien's parents which Clone Morty defeats, before being killed and revived again. Back at the garage, two versions of Rick emerge and begin to fight. The clone must determine which of them to kill; the remaining version is run over by the spaceship of the real Rick, who kills Clone Morty for wielding a firearm. Clone Morty is greeted at the garage by Rick and Morty after a visit to Purgatory. Rick reveals that the past events were a ploy for Clone Morty to make an Omega Detergent by combining the seed and baby-alien goo, and do the laundry to perfection.

Development

The idea for Owlchemy Labs to work on a virtual reality video game for Rick and Morty came after series co-creator Justin Roiland invited the development team to his residence to play games.[5] The first drafts of dialog were written by Owlchemy Labs and rough voice recordings by Producer Andrew Eiche were sent to Roiland as a template for the final performance.[6]

Reception

Virtual Rick-ality was met with "generally favourable" reviews on the PC and "mixed or average" reviews on the PS4, according to Metacritic.[7][8]

shooting gallery". The variations of jobs to accomplish were found to be "interesting and enjoyable", and the manner in which one navigates the environment was lauded as "a smart solution".[4]

Conversely, Carter criticized its optimization, citing issues of faulty controls, long loading screens and "severe" stuttering, all of which resulted in having to reboot the game.[2] Jube complained that the required tasks became monotonous and presented a lack of engagement overall.[3]

The game was nominated for the Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best Virtual Reality Game at the New York Game Awards 2018,[9] and for "VR Game of the Year" at the 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards.[10][11]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Mr. Meeseeks in the TV series[2]
Footnotes
  1. ^ Devore, Jordan (February 16, 2018). "Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality hits PS4 in April". Destructoid. Archived from the original on February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e Carter, Chris (April 20, 2017). "Review: Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality". Destructoid. Archived from the original on May 26, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Juba, Joe (April 20, 2017). "Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-ality". Game Informer. GameStop. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Ryan, Jon (April 23, 2017). "PC Review". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on June 18, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  5. ^ Kuchera, Ben (July 15, 2016). "Watch the stunning first trailer for the Rick and Morty VR game". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on June 21, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  6. ^ GDC (October 9, 2017). "Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality Postmortem: VR Lessons *burrrp* Learned". YouTube. Game Developers Conference.
  7. ^
    CBS Interactive. Archived
    from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  8. ^
    CBS Interactive. Archived
    from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  9. ^ Whitney, Kayla (January 25, 2018). "Complete list of winners of the New York Game Awards 2018". AXS. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  10. ^ McNeill, Andrew (January 31, 2018). "Here Are Your 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards Finalists!". SXSW. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  11. ^ IGN Studios (March 17, 2018). "2018 SXSW Gaming Awards Winners Revealed". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on March 18, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2018.

External links

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