Stormlight Archive in VR!!! The Way of Kings in the HTC Vive 

Shouldn't parshendi be humming a war song and attacking in pairs?

Shard blades should fit VR since they are light and go trough everything.

No. These books deserve media adaptions of the likes of thhe lord of the rings movies. Really take time to build the world for the viewer/player. Maybe CDProjekt Red could do a game justice?

Dispose the inaccuracies I love the fact that the books were so liked that they got a game of any form

I feel like the designers had never really read the books. So many issues with this.

I wanna fight Szeth goddamit!

"Hey, can I borrow this? I want that. Thanks" Just takes the guys weapon away. Dunno why but I lost it at that.

Holy shit I do not know how i passed over this video so many times I fucking love stormlight archives

"When you marooned me in that god forsaken storm, you forgot one very important thing mate..." "..." "I'm Kaladin Stormblessed."

A lot of the exposition is going on with the assumption that people who haven't read the books might try this VR sim. And a few other changes made from the source material are to accommodate the shortcomings of the VR. All in all, I'd say the high point of this is that it may encourage people who play it to read the books.

Thought syl should be more childlike but she was still spacey which was good. She was a bit more hateful than I thought necessary. I thought the parshensi were to have orange or rust colored carapace but I did like the look in general. I almost picture a darth maul type of skin color. Chull was spot on in my opinion. Great video though thanks for posting it if they release a full game I'd definitely buy vr but for now that seems too expensive to buy for one game that last 10-20 min

I was so impressed when you were able to just Disarm the guy and use his weapon!

oh my god "I CAN'T TAKE IT IN" i laughed too hard

The warform is a lot smaller than I expected. I imagined them as buff bodybuilders with insect style plate armor

I’m also a big Brandon Sanderson fan, I only started reading his stuff last year but instantly fell in love, Ive read through all of the stormlight archive and Elantris, and I just finished the 2nd mistborn book literally 10 minutes ago so I still have a lot more reading to do to complete the cosmere, also I have VR so I’ll definitely be checking this out, thanks for the review!

I *love* Brian Sanderson's books too. I always thought the Mistborn series with its Allomancy and Feruchemy would make for an amazing game especially if set in the later series. Law man with powers bringing justice to varied enemies with wildly different power sets? Being able to surf power lines and push off metallic objects? Crazy parkour? Heck, there's even your own Q, building gadgets to help you take down these various villains. So much room to creatively beat new enemies.

"We're going to take an intricately crafted magic system and turn it into telekinesis. Also we're gonna make it a soft magic system. Syl can lightweave now!" Gg

Dude. Seriously you need more subs lol each time I watch one of your videos I realize more and more how much time you put into these and how well they’re made. Awesome videos man

It would be cool if it was more linear, not so free and more like a set of interactive cutscenes with limited areas of exploration, mainly just to check out little details in a scene. They could make a 'typical day in the life of kaladin at any age after the time he joins dalinar. Even if you couldn't lose it would be a killer vr movie.

Video style and commentary right up my street. You have a natural easy charisma which smooths the nerdy pedantry. Not a criticism, I would have been disappointed if you hadn't mentioned the telekinesis. Excellent representation of our fanbase and some funny moments in there too :)

Couldn't get past 5:19. When you mess with the magic system you are messing with the core of why so many people love Brandon's books. I will force it on myself later...For Tribal sake...

I absolutely love Stormlight and literally everything else Sanderson writes. I'm mostly a scifi fan but I like some fantasy and reflecting on why I like Sanderson's fantasy so much has helped me to understand why I like some fantasy and not others. It's the logic of the magic systems. Sanderson develops his magic as more of a science than a magic, which makes his fantasy almost more scifi than fantasy. He sets out strict rules for the magic system so that I can understand what's going on, what's possible, what's not, and intelligently assess what the characters do with it. That's what makes magic interesting to me and Sanderson does it every time but always in a new and unique way. Plus, he's just a great writer all-around xD This game, on the other hand... well, let's just say it's as good as I expected :P

I’m reading way of the kings currently. So game is interesting, I’m glad we get to play as Kalaidin seeing that my opinion . He’s the best part of book.

Love the nerd confession. lol

Awesome video! I only have a PSVR right now so I can't play this yet but man do I hope that they decide to make this a full-fledged game (hopefully fixing some of the inaccuracies). I'm reading Oathbringer right now and I just want to be in the world!

That chasmfiend is waaaaay to small. And those chasms are waaaaay to shallow.

Shouldn’t the pardenshi look a bit less like black guys with weird helmets

(Ongoing edits as I'm typing while watching, and I accidentally hit post) At the start... lashed to a bridge by the look of things. Definitely not what happened, but still brutal. Spot on with the Lashings, it's well enough but the not-touching and the telekinesis can be just user-friendly kinda stuff. I'm sure they could make a proper Lashing system, of touching the object and either painting a second point with a touch, or assigning a direction with look/other hand, but it probably wasn't the focus of this and would be a bit of work, I'd assume they have the telekinesis/throw from another project, probably. Thing of note, it seems like the idea in this demo is that Syl just found/chose someone who already embodied/spoke the ideals who happened to be in the chasms, based on dialogue. Not sure if that checks out with how the bonds work, but that's fine. Rockbuds are alright enough, based on the book sketches it's close, The 'true' rockbuds lie open like that, the trouble is the leafy structure as opposed to the tendrils. Though, this could be a different sort of subset, as there are a bunch of different types. As you said, this is fine enough. Though, Syl's line doesn't quite fit, as rockbuds actually look like rocks when folded up according to the sketch, which would make the name make sense. Chull's pretty spot on, though pretty sure there aren't wild chull in the Chasms. And a tamed chull probably wouldn't ball-up when someone approached it, but that's the most minor thing. (Also if you could Lash the chull at all it would be fully flown away, though that could be a 'not enough stormlight' thing, but even then I don't think the half-lashings were actually half of a full lashing so it wouldn't just hover for a bit) "Everything but Humans" Was Humans actually ever used in the book? I may be wrong, but I believe it was Alethi or whichever race they were. Decent bit of writing on Syl, being unsure and all. Chasmfiend.... nest? I mean, isn't a major part of a few problems that people don't know where the Chasmfiends actually nest, just somewhere further east in the chasms? Maybe our character is further east, but the Chasmfiends just kind of roamed about. Fine for a demo, but another little nitpick. Parshendi... yeah, not great. Also, Syl wouldn't have a bias like this pretty sure. Another thing, punching Parshendi carapace doesn't seem like a good idea. The Carapace also wasn't like skull helmets, described more like ridges and stuff. Sparring practice, yeah. Lashing to the wall could have been done better, yeah. Probably a teleport is best, even if that would also be a little disorienting. Santhidspren.... yeah, but I'm also not quite sure what spren they're actually meant to be. They're just kind of... there, in that spot, but also when you Lash things. Based them appearing when you lash, maybe they're windspren, or bindspren. Based on Syl's lines though, that seems to point toward the arrow things that kind of hang out near chasmfiends (and 'skyeels in kharbranth' according to one of the journal/sketch entries. They might also appear around santhids, which could technically make santhidspren valid. (This bit about spren has been based on rough memory, and also the wiki which is pretty good about tracking stuff) The actual chrysalis was underwhelming, being further away and just looking like a rock. Combat's meh as it's punching, Syl's little "Wait, My right, your left" was a nice touch. Lashings are... powerful, as a mix of being able to lash at range and passively-recharging, but that's a game thing we went over earlier. However, I think I saw some painspren when people get hit, yourself included which is a decent touch.. weird, as they're whispy flying things again, instead of on the ground as described, but that's a vision change again. Again, the parshendi themselves are meh. Design's not too great, the grey carapace, while maybe not wrong, is kinda bland. Pretty sure the skin was mentioned as red and black, too. Chasmfiend appearance was GREAT, though it totally should have come up onto the plateau fully, I think the design was on-point just like the Chull. Gemheart powering up, fair enough. I don't remember if they were charged as they were harvested, but I also don't think any surgebinders came into contact with fresh gemhearts so it wasn't mentioned... though I may be wrong. Big boulder lashing was great, besides the usual at-a-distance problem. That had the good feeling of lashing it in a direction. Wait no it is Kaladin... yeah I got nothing, I missed that at the start. Overall, I imagine it's great to have something interactive like this, as you said after playing. Sad it was short, another character interaction would have been great. They already broke the book already, it would have been great to have Dalinar call out to you at the end, in the vein of the meeting after the Tower battle, leaping over to you in Shardplate. It would have been great to have a shardblade or honorblade section, as another commenter pointed out a Shardblade would be perfect for VR as it can pass through things and cut out their soul. (Meaning they could give you a non-tangible weapon and 'kill' things you cut through without working out a feedback system, or limb damagine, though other games have done well with that) And the after-game thing you were talking about pretty much everything I typed out here... And yes, the Stormlight Archive (and other books, but I've not read them.) are AMAZING books that everyone should read.

As much as I want to support Brandon and the Devs that put their effort into this.. the price is just too dang high atm. I'm grateful for your vid so i could see what it is all about! Maybe if it comes down to a buck or three, i'll jump.

I dream of something like this for Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Can you imagine the WoR climax from Kaladin's POV in the VR? That be some epic shit!!

"Because I suck SIL!!"

thx for upload

18:26 the Parshendi can only leap that far with a sprinting jump not on the spot...

Why does he say forget the alethi and so on when hes fighting parchendi?

Graphically nice, but have the people that made this REALLY read the books? Lashing is not Telekinesis, Chasm fiends look weird and the Parshendi don't look like their armor grew out of them. Nice effort, but this is a poor adaption of the world we love.

Don't santhid have the same spren surrounding them that chasmfiends do in the chasms? Or is that just a fever dream I had?

Since when can Syl make illusions that you can punch? :( I like the chasms and effects, but the magic system is ruined :( movement is weird too. And the bit that Syl said about the Parshendi? Makes me sad. Stormlight recharging? The music and the shattered plains look great though

Could you recomend me a new epic fantasy series to start? I work a 12 hour night shift and I listen to audio books to get me through. I have already listened to the stormlight archive and mistborn books. I have also listened to all of joe Abercrombie's stuff. I was thinking about getting into the wheel of time but would appreciated you input.

This is meant to get executive into the world right? To pitch them Cosmere movies/TV shows?

THIS EXISTS??!?!?

Just to nitpick, I guess, kaladin actually doesn't have to touch an object to move it. In book 5 of the way of kings he not only changes the trajectory of arrows shot at him but he pulls a hundred or so out of the air into his shield all at once. So the telekinesis like movement in the game isn't so inaccurate.

Did it HAVE to be a VR shit? There's so much they can do with that franchise and they chose VR?! Looks like a dead on arrival adaptation.

I can't imagine getting anything out of this unless I had read (and loved) the source material. Like you said, that's way too short (this is a demo)... Going to have to pass. Might explore the books though :)

Might not have sold the game to me but i'll buy the books, got an amazon affiliate link or something?

10€ for that.. sorry skipping, it hardly lasts 20min

ugh. I haven't played a vr game or have worn a vr headset first to put it out there. But I wasn't very impressed with this particular game to be honest. I also can't get behind the whole teleporting move mechanic... it's too disorienting even just watching it on a 2d screen. I'd rather there be a button you press to move forward like a regular game. i realize that some people get dizzy or nauseous or whatever. but I don't see how. I guess I have to use a vr headset to see for myself... some people say they don't even feel that way, so maybe nausea in vr can be fixed in the future? idk. but it looks lame the way it is right now to me... On a side note. i did find the magic aspects to be a neat gimmick and would love to see some more implementation with puzzles using that system. I'd really like to see something like a portal game in vr. that would be cool as hell to me.

A lot of time spent standing around and not exploring

It’s completely possible for kaladin to have what we would call telekinetic powers, he could lash and object towards him and away and do micro lashes in different directions to change the position of the object in the air He’s been shown to be able to lash things in 2 different directions at once

was that some irish stereotyping lol

a waist of money.

Ruined the book

I’m reading way of the kings currently. So game is interesting, I’m glad we get to play as Kalaidin seeing that my opinion . He’s the best part of book.

I’m reading way of the kings currently. So game is interesting, I’m glad we get to play as Kalaidin seeing that my opinion . He’s the best part of book.