Posted on: January 10, 2022

TheSymphony

Spiele: 802 Rezensionen: 121

Feel the pressure of making decisions

So, was I 100% satisfied with some of the smaller details like how certain mechanics work? Not exactly. It took some getting used to. However, one big factor that drives most of my reviews is: Did the game match the description page? This game did that and more. So I gave it 5 Stars. The atmosphere was spectacular and the graphics were great. The voice acting was wonderful as well. The story is absolutely fantastic. The biggest thing with this game is that you are forced to live with your decisions. There's no manual saving, killing somebody, then re-loading a pre-saved state. If you take someone out they're gone, and you're left with the consequences. (and there are always consequences!) However, as a Doctor AND a Vampyr... You are faced with the fact that most of your experience points for upgrading come from sucking the blood of those NPC's that you, as a doctor, want to help. If you drink no blood you are super weak and bosses will be super difficult late-game. If you go on a killing spree? You'll be super overpowered but the world around you will plunge into chaos. The ending will also reflect your choices in game, so be prepared! Such a wonderful, frustrating dilemma to be in. It makes you second guess everything you do. Ultimately, if you don't like games like this then leave it alone. It's not for you. But, it's designed to make you want to re-play and make different choices. What if this other person lived instead? Do what if I made this key character a Vampire, but took this other one's life? Lots of world-changing choices to be made. Also, so much in this game revolves around crafting and upgrading equipment, along with finding cures for various diseases for sick NPC's. Also, side quests are very interesting and usually involve you helping the NPC's out by uncovering secrets, talking to other people, finding keys, reading documents... Lots to do. I can't recommend this game enough!

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Posted on: June 7, 2024

Ka6uki

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 903 Rezensionen: 16

Technical mess, great game though

This game got obvious technical flaws that includes crash to desktop ("CTD") from time to time again, FPS stuttering** by the engine (although running on modern computer) or some logical plot holes (for example the protagonist might be looking like the personification of the walking dead, but everyone doesn't seem to care or even to be able to see it, they are like: "Hello, Dr Reid! Lovely to see you."). Seems the devs ran out of time to complete the game during crunch before release. :-( A final patch or definitive edition would be very welcome, but unfortunately highly unlikely after all this time. But, the game behind the problems is a lovely victorian vampire action title in a postapocalyptic version of London. The combat is fun and the story, conversations and characters sophisticated. Well, it's obviously not a Vampire The Masquerade title but it shares similiarities. I like the setting and power fantasy very much at the end of the day. And I would buy a sequel for sure. At least if it is playable after all. **By the way, there is a fix for the stuttering. It's tedious but works: Play a bit with the grafic settings, disable Vsync ingame and enable it via your card driver. Restart the game. Sooner or later you should get stable FPS at max settings. The stuttering can't be fixed by turning all settings down, that won't do anything. It's a problem caused by the engine/game. (Unreal Engine though, lol.)

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Posted on: June 19, 2019

SknTheLisper

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Spiele: 248 Rezensionen: 5

It's good apart from some bad designs

First off, the things this game does well is in story telling and the characters(if you look at the game taking place within a couple of nights, rather than a few weeks, so just barely getting to know people) are top notch. Lasting consequenses for what you do, and being locked into it trough the autosave system is top notch. The issues however lies around combat and exploration. You're activly punished for exploring, or attempting boss battles. The combat\exploration phase of this game takes a lot of inspiration from the souls series, so when you die, any and all spent resources will be spent, making an difficult boss fight even more difficult. For those of us that never use consumables unless we can find a steady use of it(in souls-like games) it means we get stuck with never using any consumables at all in this game. This doesn't make the game more or less difficult, it simply means we end up not using a wide variety of tools at our disposal, in fair of it being worthless when\if we die. Exploration is hampered in the same way, certain places you'll meet NPCs that you have to save, if you do not save them before resting(leveling up), they will die. This means if you happend to find an difficult encounter that you just can't solve without resting, then your SOL and that NPC will die. As such, you are activly detered from exploring, unless you have plenty of levels already. Because of the auto save system, which work so well with the consequenses, once an encounter is found, you effectivly can't rest(level up) anymore, at all. Because when you do, that NPC dies, unless you finish that encounter(with your underleved character). It's not impossible to win them mind you, enemies mostly scale in the damage they do than anything else, so perseverence and good doding will save the day, but it feels like a cheap and poorly designed mechanic. Also bullets are rare, yet if you use a gun those bullets are spent if you die, making using a gun the worst choice in the game.

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Posted on: June 26, 2019

put1996

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Spiele: 51 Rezensionen: 2

Autosave RPG don't work with bug game

I was having a important conversation, then the game somehow glitch/bug and didn't acknowledage my dialog choice. After multiple attempt to get the dialog to work, I tried clicking other dialogs and no reactions. Then the game unfreeze after multiple attempt to get it to respond and and select a dialog I didn't want to. Now I am stuck with it.

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Posted on: February 10, 2022

LGGOG

Spiele: 263 Rezensionen: 5

Amazing atmosphere+score with some flaws

THE GOOD: The atmosphere of the game is off the charts, depicting the night of London with fog, dirt and debris, and inflicted with disease and death. It's almost palpable. The score is memorable, with austere violins and some synthesizer tracks, and the voice acting - especially from the protagonist - has the right tone: serious but with a touch of humanity, it feels real and not over the top. The story has, at least for me, some unexpected and memorable moments (the surgery is one example, but I won't spoil it). THE NOT SO GOOD: The combat is competent, but you're almost on your toes fighting enemies since they can level up quite much, and you don't always feel like a superhero - the combat is sometimes too much hectic for my taste. When your foes are too difficult, it's time to take a nap and level up, using your xp in upgrades. (tip: stamina is VERY important). THE BAD: the autocamera during combat can hide you in some corners/rooms, and the loading times can be very frustrating when you die in combat and have to reload. To my knowledge, it's just a bug where the game is just idle, one workaround can be to kill the application in the task manager and start the game again to load the save faster. TIPS: you'll talk a LOT in this game, and the sidequests are as important as the main story. I finished the game without embracing/killing any npc to gain xp, just doing all the quests was enough to level up from time to time. Try to maintain all the npc's healthy and alive, especially the main npc's of each district, since the death of any of them will have consequences on their district (will have more monsters and mobs fighting you). When you sleep, some npc's might get sick, and you need to cure them with specific medicine for each of 9 possible diseases (research+craft). Overall, it's a great experience and I loved the game - imo it just needs some polish for the camera and load times. Definitely interested in a sequel or more adventures in the same universe.

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