Posted on: June 19, 2019

SknTheLisper

Games: 248 Reviews: 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

Verified owner

Games: 51 Reviews: 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

Games: 263 Reviews: 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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Posted on: July 10, 2022

RomanRageLDH

Verified owner

Games: 228 Reviews: 18

Good, but flawed

Overall, it's a good one. You can be a good guy or a bad guy. Lots of dynamic ways in which the people around you react to or are affected by your decisions. Being a good guy is basically hard mode. You'll never be able to fully upgrade your abilities, and combat is a challenge. Being bad, on the other hand, is easy and means you can upgrade just about everything completely. This gives it replayability value. Pretty good dialogue and an interesting story with a unique take on vampires. Now for my beefs. This game gives off an open-word vibe, but you are continually barred from going anywhere the game doesn't want you to go. Even when you've done enough story missions to roam the map, there are plenty of EXTREMELY ANNOYING one-way gates/doors that require you to traverse all the way around the map to the other side in order to unlock it. The cherry on top? No fast travel. Ever. Not even between safe zones. You spend about two thirds of your gameplay running to and from your objectives. Not to mention the map design is atrocious with dead-end allys and out-of-the-way paths. This, I suppose, is meant to accurately represent 1918 London. Lastly, you need to be very careful when gathering lore collectibles. Just one wrong decision completely hoses your effort to get 100% of them, as I very ungraciously found out. Otherwise, 100%-ing the rest of the game shouldn't be too difficult with two separate playthroughs. As of this review, the game is 4 years old and the developers are still charging $40 for it. I got it on sale, by some miracle. I recommend, if you're interested, that you do the same.

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Posted on: November 7, 2021

Krasnoludek5

Verified owner

Games: 112 Reviews: 39

Game breaking bug

I enjoyed the game well enough for a time - it had nice atmosphere and seemed engaging enough on the story front. Unfortunately, about 10h in I happened across a game breaking bug in the main story, and the game uses a single overriding autosave with no manual saving allowed. I've searched online and it seems the bug (failure to loot a body in the "Rat in the Hospital" quest) has been around SINCE LANUCH and the only "solution" given was to restart the game from the beginning. I liked the game, but not enough to replay TEN HOURS OF IT. So overall - I can't recommend this game on the basis of me not being able to continue or finish it.

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