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Posted on: August 12, 2023
Demo_Yasha
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 113 Avis: 3
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Amazing game, you can see the differnce from Coteries of New York. Its interesting that it uses those same players from New York to make a introspective, character driven, and dissection on what it means to be Lasombra, loved it. totally worth to buy it.
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Posted on: February 25, 2025
Ietukas
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 50 Avis: 1
Should have Embraced being a pure novel
So, of course it is a visual novel and even more so here. Shadow of NY is clearly a virtual book you read at night, listening to the delightfully obscure score. Julia is embraced as a Lassombra at a moment when the infamous clan tries to win a place in the Camarilla. Her position is precarious, she is unhappy, she feels inadequate, useless, manipulated and without perspective. She struggles with her girlfriend, with her mentor, with high-profile people, with her loyalties, with everything. She tries to get away from her past but ends up serving as a bureaucrat in the very same fast food she dreamt of leaving behind forever. Her personal story is the main dish here. And I love it. It is perfectly human and kindred at the same time. For once, we are not served with the usual oh my god I have to drink blood now ?! or even worse you used me ?! I though I could trust you ! . Julia is already beyond that and sees the Camarilla, the Anarch, the Church and the Lassombra for what they are. The main issue with the game : it pretends to let you play. Big mistake. Because it involves letting you make some choices but the game does not really want you to choose. From the beginning, the game clearly indicates the way to go by forcing you to pull the trigger and later, when you gain your first perk, the game explicitly tells you that a real Lassombra is reckless. So you can take the 3-4 choices for another stroll but the game WANTS you to follow the script. If you do, you reach an ending where pieces are forcefully put together and you get somehow an achievement that says Good Ending. If you do not, you get and absolutely weird ending which does not make sense at all but may make you feel good about Julia. Oh, and also it is labelled Bad ending for some reasons. So… the game would have actually been better if it pretended even less to be a game.
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Posted on: April 8, 2025
sillyrabbi
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 27 Avis: 2
good story
Coteries was ok. I like the story in Shadows better
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Posted on: August 16, 2023
Franck_K
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 109 Avis: 29
Welcome to the world of darkness
The game's atmosphere is even more intense than the first (Coteries of New York). And although it's still an introduction to the world of Vampire: The Masquerade, I enjoyed rediscovering it in a more metaphysical way, particularly with the Lasombra clan. Unfortunately, the ending is a little perplexing, with a rather classic conclusion that makes the plot fall flat. Like the first game, it's only worth recommending if you can get it cheaply (it's still a short visual novel and you love or want to discover the world of Vampire la mascarade.
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Posted on: December 27, 2024
misterfixit
Jeux: 507 Avis: 8
Better concept, worse execution
Like all good sequels, it takes the groundwork laid by he first and brings it to a new level. This one focuses the story (and storytelling itself) around one particular subject, her quirks and her journey. For example, the Codex no longer just lists monotonous details of the world's elements, this time they're written from the main character's perspective and with her unique attitude. I actually like having a character who isn't just a blank slate but unfortunately, for all the better design decisions, the main character in this is kind of annoying and doesn't have many redeeming qualities. Your choices are pretty much limited to different ways of being snarky and entitled, while inexplicably nonchalant. It does balance this at least when most of the Camarilla treats her like she's useless, but I couldn't bring myself to feel all that sorry for her. Then unfortunately this set up leads to some pretty unbelievable leaps to get things rolling which often felt fan-fictiony. Without spoiling anything, at least one of the endings feels like an absolute fever dream it's so bizarrely unearned. All in all, if they tried this concept with a variety of characters it could be amazing and this could just be that one character I didn't like, but unfortunately she's all you get and she's not star material.
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