Posted on: November 27, 2021

ZangetsuX7

Jeux: 28 Avis: 4

Play it for the story

Overall graphics and environments are quite good. Voice acting and environment music are also very good. I didn't experience any technical issues with a Ryzen 7 5800X / RTX 3060 / 16 GB RAM / Win11 64bit machine. One nuisance are the somewhat long loading times, that seemed to get longer by the end of my playthrough for some reason. In terms of gameplay, this game could have used a few more elements in terms of freedom to explore. I mean, I can't break a lock even when I carry an axe? Beyond the silliness of locked doors, this game could have used more alternate paths to traverse via teleporting, a mini map and the greatest omission of all: fast travel. Fights were a bit of a slog as there isn't much variety of enemies and the few enemy types around don't have a lot of attack variety. You can use many weapon types but they are all fairly similar. When I noticed you can parry with some weapons I got my hopes up. However, I didn't find them very effective as some attacks still go through your parry. I played with a keyboard and mouse and locking onto an enemy seemed counter productive, so I mostly aimed at the enemy I wanted to attack. My last gripe is the healing the NPCs mechanic. To me, if an area is "sanitized" people shouldn't fall sick the next night. Also, hunting down NPCs to heal them without map pointers is kinda lame in this day and age. Towards the end of my playthrough, I was fighting enemies 10 levels above me, but besides being patient and careful with the dodges, there isn't too much to worry about. I struggled more with a few bosses than against the end bosses. The game doesn't throw large mobs at you, but on a few indoor areas, again towards the end, it does and it was slightly aggravating. Overall, I enjoyed my time with Vampyr, but more for the story and the narrative than the gameplay itself.

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Posted on: March 20, 2025

Xavier27828

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Jeux: 21 Avis: 1

Awesome

It's great fun. I play it every few years.

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Posted on: April 6, 2025

PortugaisSucrey

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Jeux: 84 Avis: 2

The song is sung and your path chosen

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.

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Posted on: April 7, 2020

filosteel

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Jeux: 30 Avis: 8

Good but too easy and at times lacking

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.

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Posted on: February 7, 2021

Allehandra

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Jeux: 161 Avis: 12

Great chars, mechanics a bit less.

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.

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