Well this game was certainly unexpected. I didn't bother playing it for a long time as I thought it would be another low budget slog through an already tired horror trope. Fortunately, a member of my gaming group explained some of the more clever bits of the game and I finally decided to give it a go since it's cheap now.
Design: Admittedly the team isn't going to take home any awards for the combat, as it often feels sluggish and unresponsive. It also suffers from that fake choice thing that a lot of pseudo-rpg's seem to suffer from these days where a large chunk of the possible character builds feel unviable. However, it is passable and the combat isn't really where the focus was. It's obvious to me they wanted to focus on their unique social economy system. You knew you would be feasting on the blood of NPC's to survive, but the clever twist is that not only does it give you XP, your XP gains will be impacted based on your interactions with said NPC's. In regards to dialogue trees, I will say that they could have definitely expanded upon character skill dependent choices. There are a couple of spots where they do this, but it felt like an afterthought each time.
Story: The story is serviceable. I won't pull any punches, this is the definition of a "good enough" story. There are some moments that come close to feeling compelling, but ultimately this is a pretty basic story. Not quite good, but not quite bad either. With the average quality of storylines being lower these days (purely my opinion), I've grown to prefer a middle of the road story over an outright bad story.
Graphics: I played this on my Switch, but I've also seen the game run on PC and XBOX. The graphics on any of the systems aren't bad by any stretch. You aren't going to have your mind blown, and it could easily be argued that by modern standards the game looks like it's on the lower end of what is acceptable these days.
Platform Specific: I'm not wasting time defending the Switch as a platform for ports. There are several moments where this game dips down to the low teens in framerate. The loading is frequent and quite annoying. This is the price we pay for convenience, but of the 30 or so games I've played and beaten on the console this one easily stands out as the worst offender. Yes, this includes Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Overall: I dug it. It's one of those titles where the "charm" just clicked with me. I was always aware during my play sessions that there was plenty about the game that was sub-par, but I still had fun. If you are out of stuff to play and you dig action rpg's then I would suggest you check it out. Otherwise, I would recommend a hard pass.
Design: Admittedly the team isn't going to take home any awards for the combat, as it often feels sluggish and unresponsive. It also suffers from that fake choice thing that a lot of pseudo-rpg's seem to suffer from these days where a large chunk of the possible character builds feel unviable. However, it is passable and the combat isn't really where the focus was. It's obvious to me they wanted to focus on their unique social economy system. You knew you would be feasting on the blood of NPC's to survive, but the clever twist is that not only does it give you XP, your XP gains will be impacted based on your interactions with said NPC's. In regards to dialogue trees, I will say that they could have definitely expanded upon character skill dependent choices. There are a couple of spots where they do this, but it felt like an afterthought each time.
Story: The story is serviceable. I won't pull any punches, this is the definition of a "good enough" story. There are some moments that come close to feeling compelling, but ultimately this is a pretty basic story. Not quite good, but not quite bad either. With the average quality of storylines being lower these days (purely my opinion), I've grown to prefer a middle of the road story over an outright bad story.
Graphics: I played this on my Switch, but I've also seen the game run on PC and XBOX. The graphics on any of the systems aren't bad by any stretch. You aren't going to have your mind blown, and it could easily be argued that by modern standards the game looks like it's on the lower end of what is acceptable these days.
Platform Specific: I'm not wasting time defending the Switch as a platform for ports. There are several moments where this game dips down to the low teens in framerate. The loading is frequent and quite annoying. This is the price we pay for convenience, but of the 30 or so games I've played and beaten on the console this one easily stands out as the worst offender. Yes, this includes Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
Overall: I dug it. It's one of those titles where the "charm" just clicked with me. I was always aware during my play sessions that there was plenty about the game that was sub-par, but I still had fun. If you are out of stuff to play and you dig action rpg's then I would suggest you check it out. Otherwise, I would recommend a hard pass.
I even liked the game despite being very tiring and having some bad things like the freezing of bugs, the absence of interesting characters (not even the protagonist is interesting) and a quick trip, and the combat is also ridiculously bad.
Being a vampire doctor during the Spanish flu is a great setup and I love its world of nobility vampires secretly aiding the British empire is great but the game itself is a fairly big let down
British pandemic featuring hot vampire protagonist and a scottish angry boyfriend
I love this game, I hate how much it crashes.
A vampire game that actually succeeds at creating the tension one would feel as a morally sound human turned creature of the night who can only be nourished by taking lives. The social hubs where every NPC matters is another ambitious idea that mostly works. It does too many things that go beyond its budget, but it's something worth applauding. Also, that Olivier Deriviere soundtrack!
It's an interesting story with a doctor being a vampire and wether you let the main character go down the rabbit hole of becoming a monster or staying true to his mission to save and protect life.
cool game but my pc is bad
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it has a fantastic story. character developments, environment is so good. I loved everything in this game; maybe it's biased because I love vampire stories and fantastic things... but I know that many people did enjoyed it before and many people will be enjoying later too.
Vampyr es uno de esos juegos que te atrapa por su historia, te retiene por su atmósfera y banda sonora y no te deja ir por su gameplay.
Puedes estar horas y horas perdidas en sus calles, con intrigas y correveidiles que te parecerán que han pasado minutos.
Es un juego que deja cierta libertad, podemos ser un sanguinario vampiro y alimentarnos de cualquiera, aceptando las consecuencias que ello conlleve o ser un vampiro "con alma" y abstenernos de los placeres de la sangre. Vampyr nos invita a investigar su historia y su lore, descubrir los secretos que esconde Londres y sus habitantes. Investigar cada secreto y carta oculta...
Las calles y callejones de este Londres de 1918 están llenas de vida, plagadas de carteles de teatro, exposiciones, avisos de cuarentena, recomendaciones de sanidad... Sus gentes están deseosas por contarnos cosas, pero recordad, un vampiro ha de ser invitado para entrar en el hogar y en sus vidas.
Los combates y enemigos, sobre todo los jefes, se hacen entretenidos y amenos y no dificultan demasiado el gameplay. Si lo que queremos es un juego tranquilito y de "paseo" el modo historia es recomendable en este caso.
Vampyr es un juego enorme, descubrir toda la historia y sus ramificaciones nos llevará más de 20h. Skals, Ekons, Hombres lobo, logias, clubs secretos...mil relatos que lo hacen un todo y engloban su enorme historia.
Es un juego altamente recomendable para los amantes del Londres neblinoso, de juegos de investigación y de la cultura vampírica.
Jonathan está deseando que le ayudemos a descubrir el porqué de su transformación ¿Estáis preparados para descubrir la verdad?
Reseña completa en http://www.orgullogamers.com/2020/10/analisis-de-vampyr.html
Puedes estar horas y horas perdidas en sus calles, con intrigas y correveidiles que te parecerán que han pasado minutos.
Es un juego que deja cierta libertad, podemos ser un sanguinario vampiro y alimentarnos de cualquiera, aceptando las consecuencias que ello conlleve o ser un vampiro "con alma" y abstenernos de los placeres de la sangre. Vampyr nos invita a investigar su historia y su lore, descubrir los secretos que esconde Londres y sus habitantes. Investigar cada secreto y carta oculta...
Las calles y callejones de este Londres de 1918 están llenas de vida, plagadas de carteles de teatro, exposiciones, avisos de cuarentena, recomendaciones de sanidad... Sus gentes están deseosas por contarnos cosas, pero recordad, un vampiro ha de ser invitado para entrar en el hogar y en sus vidas.
Los combates y enemigos, sobre todo los jefes, se hacen entretenidos y amenos y no dificultan demasiado el gameplay. Si lo que queremos es un juego tranquilito y de "paseo" el modo historia es recomendable en este caso.
Vampyr es un juego enorme, descubrir toda la historia y sus ramificaciones nos llevará más de 20h. Skals, Ekons, Hombres lobo, logias, clubs secretos...mil relatos que lo hacen un todo y engloban su enorme historia.
Es un juego altamente recomendable para los amantes del Londres neblinoso, de juegos de investigación y de la cultura vampírica.
Jonathan está deseando que le ayudemos a descubrir el porqué de su transformación ¿Estáis preparados para descubrir la verdad?
Reseña completa en http://www.orgullogamers.com/2020/10/analisis-de-vampyr.html
Performance issues, boring story, sloggy movement and combat. This game just sucks sorry. The voice acting is pretty good though and the writing isn't completely horrible.
Vampyr is a game I enjoyed, I did thoroughly enjoy it. I view this game as a Dracula Simulator, moreso in the character relationships and development. Throughout the game you can choose to stalk, persuade and learn about the sixty or so people you encounter in London, as the more intel you find out about them the higher the XP you can get to level up and power yourself, and you can also heal them with medicines you can create via blueprints, where if they get sick you can heal them and get some good XP back. This XP will make you powerful as all hell, BUT, the more that you "Embrace" (or feed) on people, the lower the district health is, and when it's lowered all the way it basically becomes hostile. That's the basic gist with a bit of a plot in between about a plague in London and etc. It's an intriguing social game and experiment and to me I give it points because in a way I put the social aspect of this game in tier with say Shadow of Mordor/War. NOW to the bad part: the combat is ass. The whole reason you're leveling up most of the time is for boss battles and combat, which is for the most part just meh. It can be better the more you feed but that would also depend on if you want all the districts to become hostile and get the bad ending. So honestly I view the game as mostly this:
You can either: Not feed on many people, saving London and getting the good ending (With a better ending if you kill NO ONE) but deal with aggravating difficulty in terms of combat.
OR
You can be a total a sshole, kill people and become a powerful, getting past the difficulties in the combat but dooming all of London and making everything much hostile anyways.
To me this game is a good experiment, in that I enjoy and you might enjoy it too. But if I were you I'd say go with the lowest difficulty with no combat, I made the mistake of choosing a difficulty above the easiest one. Though I could just suck at video games and be a wimp. I will say also there are numerous upgrades you can get for weapons by collecting parts and buying special pieces from merchants. I like it but I can understand that it's for a niche crowd. I'd say give it a try but wait for a price drop.
Pros:
Dracula Simulator
Interesting Story
Open Choices and interesting characters
Cons:
Combat
That's the review I can think of off the top of my head. It's good but it's for a niche audience. If you're interested try it it's just 50 dollars? Idk
From Steam Reviews: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamemast15r/recommended/
You can either: Not feed on many people, saving London and getting the good ending (With a better ending if you kill NO ONE) but deal with aggravating difficulty in terms of combat.
OR
You can be a total a sshole, kill people and become a powerful, getting past the difficulties in the combat but dooming all of London and making everything much hostile anyways.
To me this game is a good experiment, in that I enjoy and you might enjoy it too. But if I were you I'd say go with the lowest difficulty with no combat, I made the mistake of choosing a difficulty above the easiest one. Though I could just suck at video games and be a wimp. I will say also there are numerous upgrades you can get for weapons by collecting parts and buying special pieces from merchants. I like it but I can understand that it's for a niche crowd. I'd say give it a try but wait for a price drop.
Pros:
Dracula Simulator
Interesting Story
Open Choices and interesting characters
Cons:
Combat
That's the review I can think of off the top of my head. It's good but it's for a niche audience. If you're interested try it it's just 50 dollars? Idk
From Steam Reviews: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamemast15r/recommended/
Very backlogged but immersive world and cool concept
Loved this game and streaming was a lot of fun too! If you want to have a look, here's the video with my first video:
Stream + gameplay
However, for those who prefer written I'll go into some details here.
The game itself has a fun, if repetative combat style, though not as mindless as Assassin's Creed. You have multiple ways of attacking either with vampire powers, firearms, weapons and so on, but some creatures and people are resistant to different kinds of damage .
Then there's the feeding where you can devour a population and then that whole place will enter chaos. The problem is when the health gets too low, the people cannot be spoken to and will either appear as an enemy or just be dead. Eitherway, you can't get the XP you may have gotten if you instead, got to know them and then drink their blood.
It also makes you feel somewhat bad as when you do it, you hear them cry out their last thoughts as you take their lives, often cursing you, lamenting their life or thinking about their loved ones and how they may eventually die without them or never get to see them ever again.
Both endings are interesting with whatever path you take of either being a murderer or resisting the urge to kill anyone. Plus I'm a sucker of vampires so I love playing as the blood-sucker who is attempting some normalcy after being turned against your will or perhaps you decide to embrace the darkness. I was surprised to find the darker path led to a final boss who was much more powerful than I thought, so don't think of yourself as getting too powerful to beat the final boss. Especially with how tough they are.
My second playthrough was murder based
Stream + gameplay
However, for those who prefer written I'll go into some details here.
The game itself has a fun, if repetative combat style, though not as mindless as Assassin's Creed. You have multiple ways of attacking either with vampire powers, firearms, weapons and so on, but some creatures and people are resistant to different kinds of damage .
Then there's the feeding where you can devour a population and then that whole place will enter chaos. The problem is when the health gets too low, the people cannot be spoken to and will either appear as an enemy or just be dead. Eitherway, you can't get the XP you may have gotten if you instead, got to know them and then drink their blood.
It also makes you feel somewhat bad as when you do it, you hear them cry out their last thoughts as you take their lives, often cursing you, lamenting their life or thinking about their loved ones and how they may eventually die without them or never get to see them ever again.
Both endings are interesting with whatever path you take of either being a murderer or resisting the urge to kill anyone. Plus I'm a sucker of vampires so I love playing as the blood-sucker who is attempting some normalcy after being turned against your will or perhaps you decide to embrace the darkness. I was surprised to find the darker path led to a final boss who was much more powerful than I thought, so don't think of yourself as getting too powerful to beat the final boss. Especially with how tough they are.
My second playthrough was murder based
It's a bloody mess, and it.... sucks
This review contains spoilers
um jogo muito bom com uma mecanica de escolhas que impactam no final. Se você quiser a forma mais facil é só sair matando todos os npcs mas ai pega o final ruim, se quiser pegar o final bom vai ter que farmar os mobs normais que dão menos xp pra evoluir. Poder investigar os npcs pra saber mais da historia deles tambem é muito bom pq você pode ver se eles merecem ou não morrer (mesmo que você ache que eles merecem lembre-se que impacta no final e mesmo assim vai pegar o final ruim).
It's a very ambitious concept and if the combat was more enjoyable the game could've been a true classic because the story, characters, world and atmosphere are all really good. Unfortunately the janky combat makes it hard to get through for most, but I still found it compelling enough to reach the end and thought it was worth it.
man this game is great but also so fucking boring
I liked this game when I played it, I liked the characters, the story and even the gameplay but for some reason, it is forgettable. To me, it is like everything has potential, the characters, the story, the setting but doesn't reach to exploit it well.
Moody as fuck. I hope they make more of this, just without a mediocre finale
great game with great ideas but not well performed
Ai, ai, vampyr... Você tinha um potencial tão grande.
a jogabilidade é meio plastica mas eu gosto, a ideia do jogo é otima, a questão de manter os distritos saudaveis é bem interessante e suas escolhas afetarem nas histórias de cada personagem é bem massa
Desde un inicio Vampyr me cautivó por ser un juego centrado en vampiros y en la ciudad de Londres tras la Primera Guerra Mundial y sí o sí eso han sido dos puntos que me han impulsado a probar el juego. De primeras cabe destacar las cosas negativas. A la hora de investigar y explorar el mundo ''abierto'', noto mucha limitación a la hora de ir de un distrito, sobretodo si no consigues abrir las puertas y los atajos esto hace que el juego sea pesado para realizar las misiones principales, secundarias o simplemente explorar para farmear experiencia o encontrar ingredientes/objetos ; en cuanto a la mecánica de pelear con enemigos lo veo un poco cojo, puede que sea más mi coordinación de pelear pero no lo siento ergonómico a menos que tengas un nivel alto y desbloqueado varias habilidades.
Y finalmente hablar acerca de la toma de decisiones : está bien, decente, están claras las opciones de buena o mala moral, sin embargo no llega a ser tan satisfactorio como puede ser en otros juegos de este género. Habría agradecido que aún por mucho que en un diálogo pierdas la posibilidad de desbloquear una pista por parte de ese personaje, que se desbloqueara de otro modo como algún objeto extra o con un diálogo con otro personaje, no me parece mal que por un error se bloquee el descubrir una pista de la historia de ese npc, aún así se me hace algo frustrante si quiero averiguar más de lo que ha ocurrido y no pueda avanzar nada en ello por este motivo.
Ahora, habiendo quitado los puntos negativos, tengo que ser clara : este juego me ha entretenido y enganchado desde el minuto uno. Ya no solo por el género y la ambientación, la banda sonora, el diseño de personajes y el trasfondo que cada personaje tiene es una delicia y una satisfacción cuando prosigues con la historia. El llevar una historia de vampiros con varios tipos además de una perspectiva más científica rompe el esquema de un juego con vampiros clásicos, sin abandonar ciertos guiños como Drácula de Bram Stoker o la mitología de esta raza. Tanto los personajes principales como la gran mayoría de secundarios me han cautivado de una forma u otra, llegas a entender el porqué algunos han cometido ciertas acciones y empatizas con muchos de ellos.
Es un juego que es pasable, tampoco es una maravilla ni es lo peor del género, es entretenido con una buena historia que te engancha cada vez que vas descubriendo los secretos que alberga a la epidemia que aflora la ciudad londinense, tiene una banda sonora espectacular que te acompaña en ciertos momentos y ya cuando le pillas el truco a las habilidades y a la pelea también pasas un buen rato eliminando enemigos que te incordian ciertos caminos.
Y finalmente hablar acerca de la toma de decisiones : está bien, decente, están claras las opciones de buena o mala moral, sin embargo no llega a ser tan satisfactorio como puede ser en otros juegos de este género. Habría agradecido que aún por mucho que en un diálogo pierdas la posibilidad de desbloquear una pista por parte de ese personaje, que se desbloqueara de otro modo como algún objeto extra o con un diálogo con otro personaje, no me parece mal que por un error se bloquee el descubrir una pista de la historia de ese npc, aún así se me hace algo frustrante si quiero averiguar más de lo que ha ocurrido y no pueda avanzar nada en ello por este motivo.
Ahora, habiendo quitado los puntos negativos, tengo que ser clara : este juego me ha entretenido y enganchado desde el minuto uno. Ya no solo por el género y la ambientación, la banda sonora, el diseño de personajes y el trasfondo que cada personaje tiene es una delicia y una satisfacción cuando prosigues con la historia. El llevar una historia de vampiros con varios tipos además de una perspectiva más científica rompe el esquema de un juego con vampiros clásicos, sin abandonar ciertos guiños como Drácula de Bram Stoker o la mitología de esta raza. Tanto los personajes principales como la gran mayoría de secundarios me han cautivado de una forma u otra, llegas a entender el porqué algunos han cometido ciertas acciones y empatizas con muchos de ellos.
Es un juego que es pasable, tampoco es una maravilla ni es lo peor del género, es entretenido con una buena historia que te engancha cada vez que vas descubriendo los secretos que alberga a la epidemia que aflora la ciudad londinense, tiene una banda sonora espectacular que te acompaña en ciertos momentos y ya cuando le pillas el truco a las habilidades y a la pelea también pasas un buen rato eliminando enemigos que te incordian ciertos caminos.
This game truly has all of the features of a great AAA title: it has good visuals, I really liked thae combat system, and the boses were challanging, but not unbarable. With that said, this game lacked a storyline for me. Not much was happening and the "reveals" start to happen only towards the end, so before that I wasn't that invested. Also I absolutely hated running around the city trying to find the entrance to the location because the gates are closed only to realize that you had to somehow find a balcony to teleport to... There is even a point were I had to search every inch of the huge theater to then watch on YouTube that you had to find a key to the locked door randomly lying around in the main hall. Overall, I would say that the playthrough was well worth it.
bastante mejor de lo que me esperaba, me saque todos los logros y me gusto la historia, aunque a veces el gameplay es un poco meh, pero disfrutable en lineas generales.
Para que te voy a mentir hermanito mio, me aburrió harto.
Rating: 8.1/10 - Great
Surprisingly great! This game does have issues with its story but I do enjoy the combat a lot and the hardest difficulty did a good job at addressing some of the initial game's complaints.
Surprisingly great! This game does have issues with its story but I do enjoy the combat a lot and the hardest difficulty did a good job at addressing some of the initial game's complaints.
Will I eat or will I contain?