Posted on: June 14, 2021

PrettyTITIES

Games: 194 Reviews: 13

Not what expected.

Its not good, its boring.

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Posted on: November 20, 2022

Maplane2.0

Verified owner

Games: 77 Reviews: 4

Could be good

but my Save got bugged 25h in the game, and I have no intention to play all that again. Even then, the game has a solid Foundation but is held back with teadious gameplay, very slow pacing and some performance issues that I got never rid off.

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Posted on: June 22, 2019

Jumpydoll

Verified owner

Games: 262 Reviews: 2

A mixed bag

It has the worst load times I've ever seen. When entering a new area or reloading after death, it can take 2 minutes or more. The combat ranges from tedious to unbelievably frustrating, and is at no point fun. Generally, enemies are only ever difficult because they are absurd damage sponges, not because they are cunning or clever. For some reason, most human enemies are more resilient than you, despite being a vampire, which means your supernatural condition only serves to drive the game's drama. And the game's drama is actually rather good, so it's unfortunate it's so badly hampered by the mechanics. NPCs are plentiful and well-realized, it's genuinely interesting talking to them and untangling their backstories. I appreciate the consequences of your choices (even though I sometimes felt I didn't have enough information to make an informed choice) and the temptation to gain EXP by devouring citizens. Honestly I would have preferred if they cut the combat completely, and focused solely on quests and characters. To preserve the usefulness of drinking blood, they could have instead used a system of skills and skill checks. Unfortunately with the combat being a chore, and the price of failure so high (because of the insane load times), my will to push forward is challenged. Forget about replaying to experiment with the choices.

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Posted on: June 25, 2019

seamlik

Verified owner

Games: 15 Reviews: 9

Excellent and underrated

I really don't understand why people have such mediocre rating for this game. Is this because mortals tend to follow trends? Or are they simply blind enough to undermine such great piece of work? Dontnod Entertainment, developer of Life Is Strange, is famous for their storytelling. Therefore, this game is truely an excellent story. If imagined as a TV series, this would be an engaging story with a few rich characters plus dozens of lesser ones. It's a mixture of mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy, woth at least 8.0 on IMDb. On gameplay, this game has quite a few innovation. It gives me a feeling of an early stage of Assassin's Creed + Middle-earth + Dark Souls. Combat is definitely not as bad as people tend to critisize, has a stamina-management style like Dark Souls. NPCs must be protected in order to keep living and giving quests, like Middle-earth's nemesis system. Cinematics are like Assassin's Creed, straightforward storytelling with limited player intervention. Choices made during major plot points probably does not affect that much, and content aside from Main story isn't that rich. But this could be one good start of another excellent franchise. I hope Dontnod will keep on with the good work.

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Posted on: December 22, 2019

guessguess

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Games: 122 Reviews: 3

Not for me.

I found the dialogue to be unengaging and there doesn't seem to be a way of speeding it up that still allows you to have some idea of what is happening. The combat system is equally a disappointment. I got as far as the first "Boss" fight in the sewer and descided that life was too short and gave up. As this is probably the last game that I will purchase this year, I can say that, for me, it is also the worst of the year. If you bought the game and enjoyed it, then that's all well and good, but i'd be seriously considering a different way to waste, I mean spend, £16.

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