super underrated! brilliant artstyle, music, and story. you’ll never guess where this one goes.

i've yet to see a game's cinematic direction achieve anything even remotely similar in quality to this one's aside from maybe RDR2. every cutscene will have you tensely at the edge of your seat, employing an incredibly effective use of long takes and music to shock you to your core and truly immerse yourself in the game's story and world.

the worldbuilding and map design is also absolutely spectacular, with lots of hidden nooks and secrets that house interesting sights and lore. in conjunction with the top tier NPC writing for all side character's and their individual quests and narratives i'd argue that this is one of the most immersive story games of all time, with an incredible atmosphere to seal the deal.

the combat is quite good as well. it's simple, yet fun and maintains a constant challenge while also being incredibly rewarding. there are a multitude of different upgrades and abilities to seamlessly use and enhance your combat experience and the game doesn't force you to use any one of them if you don't want to.

thematically the game is also very memorable. with very profound quotes and an absurd amount of moments that elicit feelings of despair or hope. all of it is directly tied to your actions in game, and the meaning of the story changes with the different endings you get.

i'm shocked to see this has an average of 2.9. this is legitimately one of my favorite games of all time.

It's a game you'll either love or hate. It has some serious gameplay issues and gets very repetitive and boring very quickly. Also, the game becomes unfairly difficult if you refuse to drink blood. Even when given the choice, the game constantly pushes you to be evil and feed on people. Traveling from one place to another is also tiring. Also, the fact that we have to keep everyone alive in the towns gets annoying after a while. There aren't enough games about vampires, so if you like the concept, Vampyr is worth a chance, but even if you don't play it, you won't lose much. It could have been a good game and it definitely has potential but they didn't work hard enough.

okay so hear me out-
it's not like... the best game, but i played it during christmas break, so cozy vibes, and also it made me fall down a rabbit hole of gay fanfiction because i thought the straight romance was so fucking out of place i needed something to fix it and yeah
that's not related to the game and it shouldn't make me give it that high of a score which it doesn't deserve but i just did it, so argue with the wall.
the concept is fun, i enjoy the characters, the lore is a bit over the top, the combat can be a bit exhausting and running around the map every night gets a bit repetitive, especially near the end. it's not for everyone but it is for me so hey

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Vampyr puts the player at the centre of a very well written plot where many sub-plots intertwine, with the player's actions seriously affecting the narrative developments that follow. This alone is very much worthy of praise, but the game's gothic atmosphere is outstanding. Vampyr's rather long loading times and occasional unstable performance can feel frustrating at times but the game undoubtedly brings an added value to Nintendo Switch owners.
👉opencritic SUMMARY

Vampyr brings a very well executed gothic and vampirical atmosphere to the Nintendo Switch, which sits really well with the game's outstanding plot and narrative developments. The game could do much better when it comes to its long loading times and sometimes unstable performance but these are not factors that end up harming an overall experience of interesting exploration and involving plot choices.
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It has a solid premise and some good ideas, but the package as a whole does not work. It is bogged down by a needless crafting system, clunky/overly repetitive combat and writing that thinks it's smarter than it actually is.

If this game had focused up its narrative, limited its cast and changed how it tackled combat it would have been a really great title. Others seem to like this game just fine but for me it's a certified skip it.

its a enjoyable game but I do think its a bit short for a rpg especially if you feed like crazy. The combat is probably the biggest flaw in the game as you fight often and the fighting can be tedious or clunky in certain situations. I liked the story a lot and the world building but I do not like how the "evil" ending is almost unavoidable. And I personally think if the game is going to "punish" you for being a pacifist it shouldn't have combat be the only route. in VTMB for many portions of the game you can avoid combat with skills and speech checks. Overall if you like RPGs its worth a shot. If you like rpgs and vampires I think you should play it. This game has more dialog then most rpgs keep that in mind and the combat is nothing special. Also this game desperately needs fast travel because fuck me I ran back and forth way too much. and manual saves.

This could have been a easy 4 - 4.5 if the combat was good and if the good ending was still obtainable with a handful of feeds.

The game starts quite poorly by throwing you into its combat which, honestly, doesn't feel great. This was extra confusion as the whole pitch of the game is that everyone you kill truly matters, but it turns out that this only counts for named NPCs and there's plenty of random dudes on the street that you can kill to your heart's content, which feels very at-odds with the game's message.

Eventually you get access to a parry which helps things a little, but not enough to make combat feel satisfying. There's the occasional boss fight but these get worse as the game goes along.

The story was the main draw, but even this falls apart eventually. There's branching paths as dialogue choices can affect character relations or even their survival, but all this comes apart at the seams when there's unexplained shifts on character motivations or actions based on some variable somewhere. My character was suddenly in a deep loving relationship with someone else halfway through despite not really having much of a connection previously, as though I had somehow missed a few hours worth of story.

I was pretty interested in this before it came out, but unfortunately it's not a game I can really recommend.

i really enjoyed the atmosphere, characters, story, dialogues, conversations, gameplay and combat, but i started playing some other game and then i completely forgot how to fight in this game. that's the thing, gameplay must be so clear that even if you are away for 3 years, everything come back naturally. after 2 or 3 months, that i came back to this game, i didn't like a single thing about it and uninstalled it.
it's a 4 star for me though, because it was so fun a while ago.
i copied the save file somewhere safe. i may finish it later. idk.