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Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

Good while it lasted

It a fun, simple and honest visual novel, with a good art, fitting music and a pretty great ambiance, who sadly only deliver half the story it should have. All in all, it still an enjoyable ride with cool characters and I simply wish I could have passed more time with them, which its a proof of the quality it has. I don't regret the time and money I invest in it. Reading the other review and all I can see is that people were thinking that this is gonna be a full fledge narrative game from a big studio. Which it's definitely not. It is a simple visual novel, made by a little studio, and sold for 20$. And I dont know how people miss that since that was in most of the presentation and is in the first paragraph of its description. It means that most, but not all, of your choice won't have consequences. That say when it does, the game make you stick to your choice by auto-saving which accentuate the consequence of the decision you made. The art of the location is sometime foggy and other time lake a finishing touch. However, it is not a bad thing since it gives the story a strange mix of a suave but punk ambient that fit the dark feel the story is going for. On the story: The main story is a classic political vampire shenanigan that you see from a neonate perspective. So nothing new, but it does it well enough. The strength of this visual novel relies in the divers and well-written characters you meet during the story. All have distinctive personality with more than one facet. Most of them has their moment to shine or their own story arch that you can influence or at least participate in. Which bring us to the major problem. To make it simple, this feels more like a part one of three of an episodic visual novel. Half of the game is more about exposition of the setting. Then there a succession of rush scene about what seems to be the main story until a conclusion that feels more like it should be the beginning of the main problem your character will have to face.

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