Groundhog Day: Like a Father Like a Father

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In Groundhog Day: As Father Like They is joined by Phil Jr., an influencer who believes enough and has returned to his homeland, Punxsutawney, to take part in a farewell ceremony for his late father, Phil Connors. This name should sound familiar to you, as it is a controversial scriptwriter of the movie Trinitarian during the 1993 season, played by Bill Murray (no, the title was not Grehoho Day, that's the idea). Indeed, we are facing a sequel to the Virtual Reality video game in the Hollywood movie more than 25 years later.

But Phil Junior's goal is not to spend an entire day mourning, but he wants to take advantage of this opportunity to feed his blog of different content. What happens is that you find that holding on to the waist should be something of a birth, because all of a sudden you are restarting the same day again, and again, and again, and again. Like his father, even though it looks like a punishment for disrespecting him.

After realizing that his experience is not a bad trip because of the contaminated mushrooms, the promoter realizes that the only way to break the loop is to show empathy to people and help them with their stuff. For example, in the first place you see how your nephew is stuck on the wall while he runs away while making fun of his favorite paint, causing his father's anger and resentment. In order for the day to improve as you should, you should avoid this chaos before things start to get complicated and the poor girl returns to the hospital.

Moved to the gameplay, which you usually do to end VR puzzles by moving motion knives. They can be as simple as setting up a snowball that will break a window or repair a broken coffee machine. Not because of their technical brilliance but as a distraction within a humorous narrative, and they look great.

Groundhog Day: Like a Father Like a Father

People familiar with the 1993 film are nowhere to be seen, but the new broadcast is not bad, especially with Garrett Schweighauser's rendition of Phil Connors Junior. There are various types of pre-negotiations to choose from, and what we really liked about how the character's sentences became brutal when he realized that his day was almost the same as yesterday's, and the same yesterday. The script is well-constructed and manages to convey a sense of development when those little extra details that advance the story are collected.

Repetition is at the core of Groundhog Day, but in playful format it is limited to sometimes overlooked. Groundhog Day: As a Father-like Father we have had to rehearse throughout the day to get small details such as forgetting to shake a cocktail before putting it on for our day. It is true that we wish to have a good day based on our efforts, but we missed out on looking for something or a little sympathy for our mistakes. On the other hand, we did not like the fact that sometimes the characters would speak at one time, pretending to compete with the word, no matter how truthful, or that they would occasionally resort to obscene language.

This cinematic clarity of the game makes sense because we are in the middle of an experience in Virtual Reality and at the same time means limited. As it is only compatible with Mov controls not with DualShock 4, but still the use of our floating hands when taking things is not as good as expected at this level of technology. Grain movement is dry and the environment depends largely on your environment, without the freedom to explore it.

That bringing the movie sequences into the VR world may sound a bit strange, but what we've found is that Groundhog Day: Like a Son Like a Son does great for the PSVR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift catalogs. His artistic script and great performance by Garrett Schweighauser also make it a success worthy of a cult film like Time Trinji, and it's a piece of technology that we really admired. Overall, we enjoyed this return to Punxsutawney. And back, and back, and back, and back to Punxsutawney.