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Arguably one of the best Rhythm games that happens to be VR that gets more and more frustrating and annoying to play as you delve into it.
The core game play is solid and enjoyable, not much can go wrong with cutting blocks in half with laser swords to a good rhythm. This however leads to the first of my many issues with the game.
Of the core songs, which there are seven volumes and an "extra" pack with remixes on some songs in said volumes, I would say maybe.... half at best are actually enjoyable to play. The designs of the beat tracks in a lot of the songs seem to not have been designed in a way that answers "what is an enjoyable rhythm and flow that the player can get into?" but instead "how can we make this song 'unique' by adding obtuse and annoying flows and physically awkward ways the player has to contort themselves?"
Next major issue is the complete lack of internal consistency in the difficulty selection for each song, an expert level on one can easily be the same level as a normal or even easy song just one song lower in the list. This leads to picking songs to play that you aren't completely familiar with a pain as you have to try and figure out how difficult a song is not by it's listed difficulty but by the other stats that you are shown e.g blocks per second etc. This combined with the previously mentioned issue in returns to beatmap design being a crapshoot on first try can lead to you being completely ambushed by a songs difficulty and failing within the first 30 seconds on something you'd reasonably expect to complete based on the difficulty you selected: this is not fun for hopefully obvious reasons.
Final major issue is the DLC song situation and how pushed updates break all mods for this game every time a DLC is published. My major issue with the DLCs is two fold, firstly is that there is no way to try out a song first to see if it's actually enjoyable. This is a big deal as Beat Saber by this point has shown that it's a coin flip at best whether a song, from a rhythm game perspective, will even be fun to play. Second issue with DLCs is that the updates they come with, that you can't avoid installing if you want to play the game, will break all mods you are using and potentially relying on to make the game more usable or adding more content.
Final words/TLDR: Beat Saber is an excellent rythm game with no real competitors in the VR space but it's many issues outside the core game of slicing stuff with laser swords and the poor and unfun design of nearly half or more of the core songs you have in the base game means I can't give this a recommend at this time.