Bizarre Barber Reviews

the central mechanic is fun and quite challenging in later levels. made me sweat very hard even playing at night

It's not just fun to play but fun to watch people play! Great music and weird surprises. I'm going to hook my headset up to my TV and throw a hair cutting party :) My only wish is for more facial expressions and animation.

Bizarre Barber is such a singularly unique and strange combination of experience and aesthetic that the sensation I got from starting it reminded me of my first play of Katamari Damacy. At the time of that game's release, its individual vision and gameplay mechanics were both odd in combination and presentation, as well as not yet accepted as a series or institution of gaming history. With BB, those mechanics are simple enough to pick up and play, but challenging to master and physically demanding as a work out. Your hair chopping will get you moving in all directions and trying different gestures in the space. This is all while surrounded in an environment that is very immersive by way of presentation in spite of being only forward facing and on-a-rail-of-sorts. The subway, and funky, alien entities riding it receiving the haircuts creates a colorful diversity punctuated by sound design like the metro if all its sound was produced by Cardi B. All elements make this one of the most New York-feeling games that I've ever played, as strange as that may seem. If you're down with vibrant, whimsical, weird stuff, check this out.

Bizarre Barber is very weird, challenging and entertaining. After you understand the scissor mechanics, the gameplay is surprisingly tight. It's definitely worth its price, especially if you have friends over and want to show them something other than Beat Saber.

I played this game mostly to experience the mechanics, as I have never used... scissors, in VR before, and here you get a huge pair! I have to say it works quite well, though took a bit to get used to, mainly that I kept angling my wrists but in reality you just need to use the positions of your hands to control the scissors. 👀 The game starts off easy but difficulty does ramp up as you progress, the levels near the end can get quite intense indeed 😅 So it's both easy to get into but should be challenging to beat. I was streaming when playing so I went through it without trying to maximize my scores, so basically I rushed it, trying to get better ratings would obviously give you more play time. Pro tip: Kids can play it if you pick seated mode in the settings. Otherwise some things can be quite high up! Note: This did have me bang my controllers together a bit, my own fault as the scissors don't force that, but then it does get fairly hectic so hard not to! 😬 All in all, definitely worth it if you're interested in the the mechanics, it's a novel experience 😗