I don't like hard games and I hate perma-death so I wasn't sure if I would like this but everything else about it sounded great. I have died a lot already but each death allows you to spend your money on upgrades that are permanent and help with subsequent runs, so everything makes you stronger, even the things that kill you. Every death is still very frustrating but I just have to keep reminding myself that dying is an important opportunity. I was also a bit surprised to see Steam VR start up when I ran the game, pressing "O" while in game switches to VR mode if you have the equipment. It seems to run well but I have a GTX980ti and I didn't test it for long for fear of vomiting mid dog fight. The game itself is not too bad for VR sickness but I get VR sick very easily.
I had to lower my speaker sample rate a little to get the sound working right and the performance is not very well optimised but I didn't expect that on day 1. As for the actual gameplay, I'm having fun so far but I guess the game is basically what I was hoping for. Other people were probably expecting something different but I like it for what it is, a randomly generated open universe to play around in. I won't say much about value because I don't care much about wasting money, I have bought worse value games and much better value games on GOG though.