The extra half star is purely for the visuals and the ideas that were presented in this game.

Everything else about this was so boring / bad it wasn't worth me trying to keep playing. The game opens with story beats that are meant to feel emotional but just happen suddenly and without much exposition or time to even get invested that it just feels like a weird joke, the voice acting is not good, the magic gunplay seemed like it would be fun but you're just cycling through red, blue, and green magic and color coding them to enemies in ways that never really feel fluid or that they're making sense all while the FPS eventually tanks once there's too many different colors on screen. I was slightly interested in the background of the world but even that got ruined once I realized the red, green, and blue magic were called exactly that, everything here is surface level. I feel bad for anyone that paid full price for this and could not get a refund.

Despite some jank, Vampyr is def worth playing and a worthy attempt at being one of the best Vampire experiences with a really engaging story.

Game loses some points because combat can be clunky, and the dialogue choices are not clear about their consequences which left me with some people dying that I was not expecting to die, but I was interested enough to continue on. If you're really stumped about what a major dialogue decision may do, you might want to do a quick search so you don't end up upset with its outcome.

I really enjoyed the system of managing districts and citizens, and making you deal with the fact that being a pacifist will make the game immensely harder because killing citizens is the fastest and kind of only way to become truly strong, it really felt like a true vampire's dilemma.