Sometimes you just want to ruin colourful things. Maybe that’s because you, like so many people, are secretly still a goth at heart. Maybe it’s because you’re sick of sunlight and are secretly a vampire. Or maybe, you’re The Beast from No More Rainbows, and it’s because parasitic little cherubic things have invaded your Underworld and put colour and love all over the place.
Assuming it’s that last one, then boy howdy do we know what you mean, and so does No More Rainbows. In this awesome virtual reality first-person platformer, you take control of a demon called The Beast, no last name given, and your entire purpose is to break stuff and just generally cause a bad time, which is a good time for you.
You do this entirely using your arms to move. You can walk by swinging your giant paws into the ground in rhythm, leap by smacking them into the floor, or even climb by extending mighty claws and hooking onto some of the surfaces. It takes a little bit of getting used to, but the result is a locomotion system that’s not only a huge amount of fun but also quite a nice little workout.
Your aim is very simple: cause destruction. With that one mission in mind, you just get to have fun in a playground filled with toys to tear apart and throw into the fiery depths. There are loads of levels to dash through with plenty of mini-games and secrets to find, and if you ever decide that the singleplayer version of the game isn’t thrilling enough, or if you’ve just finished the campaign but want more, then you can hop online and play a deathmatch against other players, or try the Chicken Catch mode which is just the kind of silly we love.
No More Rainbows is available to purchase on Steam or the Meta Quest Store.
