The good: I love the setting of a vampire story in 1918 London, at the collision between poverty, disease, war, privilege, faith and science. Looks good, the main character is personable, and the core gimmick - the ability to get more powerful by eating people you know best - is cool. The story is interesting until you get to the final act, which didn't resonate for me. Unfortunately, combat has some issues - every death feels cheap, as enemies can typically kill you in 2 or 3 hits while being able to take a lot more damage from you, so it always felt like the dodge button didn't work, rather than I made a mistake. While the intent is undoubtedly to persuade you eat some people to get XP, most of the abilities you could buy with it don't feel like they would make a difference to what killed you. Worse, after installing a Windows update, it started to take ridiculously long - 3-5 minutes - to load a save game, which made dying much more frustrating.
