VR Battleship YAMATO

I can't say it any better what others who have purchased this virtual tour of the famous IJN battleship Yamato.
This VR tour can be a benchmark for others to follow as an example of a very well-made simulation. Well done Kanda Technologies. I hope you decide to do another project like this one.

Wow. I have just been through the entire visit. It was impressive and well worth the money. You would pay that to visit an old battleship and now I can do it from home AND I was the guest of honour by the Admiral.

A great experience. I am glad that I bought it.

GREAT GAME!!!! WONDERFUL JOB!!! And I truly hope to see more IJN ships like destroyers, heavy cruisers, other battleships and carriers in the future, especially the carriers, they are my favorite. I love this extraordinary game, it provided me an unforgettable experience during this pandemic era. Thank u guys!!!!!!

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this more like Musashi? Model's gorgeous but...something about the secondary and AAs are a bit off...

I love this sim but I cannot walk around with my Reverb g2 setup. I can point and move but not move with joystick or any other method. Is there a way to do this?

Controls are broken. There's a bug that prevents you from using the options menu after the first playthrough and several people in the discussion area with different headsets have this issue. Nobody has ever responded with a fix so i'm giving it a thumbs down for a game ruining bug that the devs don't care about.

Controls broken in Quest 2, and dev is not responsive on English language forums. WAY too high a cost for an experience that fundamentally doesn't work properly with all headsets. Refunded, but may return if dev fixes control issues at a later point.

Very nice. I play World of Warships and it was nice to take a stroll around this massive ship. Please let me know if you make another ship or related content.

I bought this game, even though it is more like a historical tour on sale, hoping it would be a good spend.

It is fully worth the price, even at full price.

There is honestly nothing else like this. Anyone interested in naval history and owns a VR headset should buy this, it is a must have!

I cannot recommend it enough.

I spent way too much on this tour. Not as much as actually going somewhere and on a tour mind you, but a significant amount for what this is. But i don't really feel ripped off so its worthwhile if you are interested in this.

Its not for the casual person looking for cost efficient VR experiences though. A bit old, a bit clunky in parts, some language issues and such. But its hard to deny its neat if you want to see what it may have been like on the Yamato before it went pearl diving.

Seeing things and places that are no more, or out of reach, isn't that one of the most exciting feature of VR ?

While on the product page it says a VR headset is required, it is not. They already patched it to support regular computer monitor. I highly recommend this....well, it is not a game but more of a virtual museum. I love navy ships and have visited several museum ships in the US, such as USS Midway, Iowa, and Lexington. These great ships were built to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy. However, none of their rivals remain existing in this world. The majority of the Japanese Imperial Navy's ships had been sunk by the US force during the war, including Yamato. Others were either destroyed by the GHQ after the war was over or nuked during Operation Crossroads. There are no WW2 Japanese museum ships to visit. This software is the best and arguably the only way for now to visit a Japanese Navy battleship. You can see those chambers and equipment you typically can see in a US battleship museum like the Iowa, but aesthetically and functionally different as it is a Japanese design. It is a pity that the promised expansion never happened, but the content available for now still worth every penny.

I'm glad I purchased this product and it was worth the wait, it's an awesome tour of a beautiful ship, and it's quite sad that this was lost. To my perspective, the Yamato seems smaller than I imagined. I've been on the Missouri, and while it's said the Yamato is larger, I felt it was the opposite in both height and length - at least on the outside. This experience is still not entirely bug-free or perfect, but it's very stable, and very doable for the most part. I did not think I would enjoy it as much as I did, and I'd say as far as most VR "walking sims" goes, this would have to be among the best, as it's educational, fairly well detailed, and being able to approach the ship from afar and make your way through it provides an excellent reference of object scaling and immersion. The UI is very bare bones, and translations could be better, but it functions fine and is not hard to understand.

A very emotional visit to the past on a magnificient ship with it's crew. Don't worry, they will fire those big cannons at the end and you will be able to explore the giant middle structure.

You begin by actually reaching the ship by boat and you will leave by this very smaller boat. When you arrive, you are greated by the captain and men in full uniform and they will play the trumpet for you.

Everywhere you go, you talk to people and they explain everything in minute details. The people also perform small voiced demonstrations and the equipements actually works. There are maps and sign to indicate where you are and where you should go. You can explore in a limited manner at first, but as you explore more and more, more places will be available. I think they did that so you would not get too much lost. The ship is big and it took me 2.2 hours to make the tour.

To trigger the ending, you must go talk to the captain in his private dining room (after visiting everything), then return to the deck.

The thing that is hard to describe is the feeling, this living museum feels real. The las conversation with the captain before leaving was very emotional. They talk like they would when they were alive. In the back of your mind, you know that they will all die soon. And when you leave by boat, they all salute you. The ocean of feelings man (I had tears in my eyes).

It is totally worth the price 35$cdn, but it would reach a wider audience at 15-20$. On a technical side, it is 98% perfec, with some windows missing on the right side of the ship and some holes into the ground, but they are not noticable unless you are looking for it. The engine sound in the room where the guys are eating is only playing in either the left or right ear, but rarely both. That is very unpleasant and immersion breaking. The engrish is good enough to understand the meaning and it is somewhat realistic, because they speek japanes and it is translated to you.

By far, this is the best historical VR experience (as of this mid 2019). This is a must buy for anyone passionate about history, war, ships or museums. I hope they make another experience like that. This is how history should be taught.

This is a great virtual tour of the Yamato Battleship. It's by no stretch a Triple A game with impeccable design from top to bottom. It is not a visual master piece, but it wasn't ever meant to be that kind of game. It lives up to the idea of being able to tour around the Yamato and also allows you to get a sense of the scale of this gigantic Battleship as it actually was when it sailed the sea in 1941.

The key issues you will experience is slight translation issue with the voice simulation. I'd recommend turning on only subtitles and keeping the original Japanese voice overs. It feels a lot better than the robotic voice that attempts to bridge the gap into English. If you listen to the crew with subtitles it lends a little more personality and a sense of realistic portrayal of the crew on board her. At best the crew are animated in a static position. But at the very least give you information or allow you to get a sense of what i may be like on board her.

There is a lot to see on the deck, it's split into sections and you have to be careful if you warp around on the upper deck as you can often end up stuck in a weird location or unable to return from where you teleported from. It results in a long walk about the deck. But it's honestly a minor issue to do so considering the scale of it all and the fact you can see some things you might not have on a more restrictive pathed system.

I have yet to complete the entire thing within the scenario it plays out. But I can highly recommend this if you are a fan of the Yamato and would like to see the ship in a more personal experience. What issues it has are forgivable for the sense of wonder the whole thing leaves you with. I hope to see more of these and experience things that aren't available to us otherwise.

I'm joining the others with very positive reviews on Yamato. If you are a history or ship buff, this is a wonderful experience. I spent 65 minutes on my first time in, saw the gunnery demo, and thoroughly enjoyed the tour. It's not for everyone. You just get to wander around a subset of the ship, but there are guides to explain what things are and how things work, guide signs to point your way, and seeing it all in real life size 3D is stunning. When you get up at the top of the fire control tower and look down over the ship, it's a long way down. Those with fear of heights will no doubt experience it.

It's not a game. It's a history tour of a ship that you can never tour in real life. She was sunk in April, 1945. The attention to detail is amazing and I really wish I could get closer to the Mitsubishi F1M "Pete" aircraft on the deck and in the hanger. They are beautiful!

I only wish the engine room was open for tour. That would be very cool.

Highly recommended. If you want to see both how big and how small these ships were, it's a must-see educational experience and a wonderful use of VR to put you on the ship. Excellent work.

It all comes down to the price and how much of a history buff you are. I had to really talk myself into paying that much for a tour but im happy I did. That first sight of the ship in the distance as you are making your way to it was enough to convince me.

As a WWII avid naval historian, I found the ability to explore the Yamato as a sincere lifetime acomplishment. I have visited most all the WWII naval museams in the US and England. I love the BB 55 and wish this same experiance could be had on mulpitple ships. As it is, you can really get the feel of being on the biggest battleship ever afloat. Wonderful job and I hope more VR historical experiances come out similiar to this one.

Nice tour and very informative. It is a shame they were not able to make the ship rock with the ocean. As a retired sailor, that would have upped the immersion sense tremendously. I hope more tours like these become availablr in the future.

I have served as a deck officer on an exploration ship and had the fortune to work with people who had found TITANIC, among other historic wrecks.

This is not a game. It is a historic tour. The attention to detail, the thousands of hours that must have gone into the custom models and researching the history are appropriately represented in the price tag, given the smaller target audience.

PROS:

The ship appears painstakingly, faithfully recreated. I'm curious to see how far that goes - I would not be surprised to find the framing and joinery reasonably represented.

I was surprised at the subtle detail in the culture and procedure that was represented. Both in the explanations of daily life and even diet, as well as observing the procedure for gunnery practice I learned an incredible amount. It shows even some obvious points that you really wouldn't think of without being there: looking at the bow and realizing the draft marks were metric (I'm used to reading feet and inches) for example, and then seeing she's drawing about the proper 30-some feet.

CONS:

The audio translation appears to be voiced by a very monotone text-to-speech engine. The subtitles sometimes exhibit errors in grammar and technical word choice.

(This is not a game, and has a very specific, often technical, researcher, or military target audience).

While there is apparent incredible attention to detail, I have no easy means of assessing the authenticity of the details aside from one-by-one. I'm curious now to confirm if they really would use a bugle aboard.

While the English translation was sufficient to make this an enjoyable ship to visit, it is clear I am missing and incredible amount as I do not speak Japanese.