London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Will you embrace the monster within? Survive and fight against Vampyr hunters, undead skals,...
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Will you embrace the monster within? Survive and fight against Vampyr hunters, undead skals, and other supernatural creatures. Use your unholy powers to manipulate and delve into the lives of those around you, to decide who will be your next victim. Struggle to live with your decisions… your actions will save or doom London.
BE THE VAMPYR – Fight and manipulate with supernatural abilities
FEED TO SURVIVE – Be the savior and the stalker
SHAPE LONDON – A web of interconnected citizens reacts to your decisions
The story and characters of Vampyr are amazing.
The choices are really difficult to make and as the game says, you have to take responsibility for your actions.
If you can get past an imperfect and messy combat system (the game's biggest weakness), play it!
It was an adventure I'll remember for a long time.
If I could give half-stars, this review would be a 3.5 stars.
The game is first of all very entertaining and visually appealing. The music is good, controls of the character are just on point and smooth, and combat is fun and opens a lot of possibilities. The story is also well told (even though the ending takes a turn into the paranormal that I did not fully appreciate and felt quite a letdown-but still was ok). My main critique to this game is that it's just way, way too easy. I played in normal difficulty in a NO-embrace run and never used either serums or guns, I only used a melee mace, but I always felt overpowered respect to the enemies. I killed the lvl 18 Skal in Whitechapel being only lvl 6. I defeated the lvl 33 Priwen boss toward the end of the game while being lvl 22 myself. The fight has been challenging, don't get me wrong, but this boss and the boss you face in the graveyard (you know which one I am talking about) are the only two real challenges in the whole game. Even though I purposefully crippled myself doing no embraces and not using serums or weapons, I never felt the pressure to kill a citizen for the XP. The whole moral dilemma the game seems to advertise so much simply never existed. Perhaps one has to play in hard mode to get to that point? Norrmal mode is described as "the way Vampys is meant to be played", but a vampire that never felt the slightest need for blood seems not the right way to me.
The other main critique is that many things in the game just don't work well. Many times a character openly tells you something, and way later in the dialogue you ask again the very same thing, or you end up "re-descovering" that same thing as a hint for the NPC, even though it was already told to you. Dr. Reid probably has bad memory. Another example is how inconsequential the Y choices in dialogues are; maybe 1% of all the choices makes a difference (i.e., gives you a hint for the NPC or not).
Overall good game anyway and I am happy I played it.
Felt more like a mature mature story, loved many characters and empatizing with them and the hint system (maybe except eavesdropping with your vampiric senses, didn't feel intuitive), even if they were bad guys in some way they didn't become that out of thin air. Also great voice acting helped with that.
Watercolor textures and lightining in the game was nice, wish you had post processes separated in the graphical options, like Depth of Field.
Combat was decent and various skills cool looking.
Music by Olivier Deriviere is briliant, as I was expecting. Good sound design, but eniviromental change of sounds and buildings can be a bit too quick sometimes.
What I didn't like was traversal.. almost feeling like playing Thief Deadly Shadows or hub in Thief 4. Wish there was some kind of fast travel to not fight enemies every time you go from disctrict back and forth, or/and don't respawn them.
Vampyre is a great fun romp but strangely enough I played through without having to bite one human being. Fighting mechanics are a high point alla Dark Souls without the fustration of thinking you may never win but still challenging. Great story as well. Well recomended especially on sale.
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