Vampyr

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  1. apeot2002
    May 24, 2021
    7
    If you ever wanted to vacation in Victorian Era London and see for yourself what Old Charles Dickens was going on about, you can now slip into the boots of Jonathan Reid, famous surgeon, and recently awakened vampire.

    And when I say recently awakened, I mean seconds ago: During the amazing first scene of the game, Jonathan crawls out of a mass grave and wanders around incoherently until    If you ever wanted to vacation in Victorian Era London and see for yourself what Old Charles Dickens was going on about, you can now slip into the boots of Jonathan Reid, famous surgeon, and recently awakened vampire.

    And when I say recently awakened, I mean seconds ago: During the amazing first scene of the game, Jonathan crawls out of a mass grave and wanders around incoherently until he stumbles into his first kill. The game puts an incredibly strong first food foot forward.

    Can the game keep that spectacular level of engagement up throughout? Not quite, but it keeps it going for quite a while, and certain aspects stay strong all the way. First thing to mention is the amazing environmental design. The color palette with its grays and browns and only the occasional splash of crimson oozes atmosphere. The mood and sense of place that the environment evokes are second to none.

    The people living in this splendidly rendered hellscape of a city are just as amazing. Almost all of them are well-written, deep characters. Some of them are tragic, some despicable, most of them have a few skeletons in the closet, and almost all of them are so very compellingly human. Some of them have a bad case of the uncanny valley face, and generally, the character design isn’t as strong as the environmental one, but still: These people feel alive and real and tragic and pitiful… It’s great!

    Gameplay-wise, the game has two modes: Walking simulator and combat.

    Combat copies a lot from Dark Souls: There is a stamina meter governing the amount of attacking and dodging you can do, there are a bunch of vampiric talents, even the most exotic of these have a grounded feeling that fits well with the established grounded and realistic mood. Still, it’s not all sunshine and violence: The hit detection isn’t quite as precise as it could be, some NPC attacks are barely telegraphed and the controls could stand to be quite a bit tighter. Still, the system is robust enough to allow skilled players to win fights with more than ten levels of experience disparity. You don’t need to do that, though, you can always eat more people. I’m getting to that.

    In safe quarters, conversation is king. Every person you meet has an opinion on the general situation, a personal story to divulge and 3 to 5 secrets to uncover. These hidden truths can be uncovered by eavesdropping on folks (an easy matter of lurking in the shadows until people behave shady and then finding the one highlighted spot where they can be observed) or by confronting them with secrets already discovered and then picking the right conversation choice. This system is usually quite forgiving, but it is possible to fail.

    The writing is great in these section: Almost all of these people were compelling characters, and the more I got to know them, the more I sympathized with most of them. This is of course what the game wants, because, as a vampire, Jonathan Reid has the option to snack on any one of them and get himself a huge boost of XP, the more secrets he has discovered, the bigger.

    There is crafting in this game, It’s not just weapons you can tape together. Jonathan is also a doctor, and with that trait on his character sheet comes the responsibility to keep the population healthy, at least if Jonathan doesn’t want his collection of blood bags to degrade in quality. He does that with self-made medicine, and it’s another way to earn XP, besides combat, snooping, pursuing the main story and eating people.

    I enjoyed that part of the game quite a bit, at first. The game sells the fantasy of being a Victorian doctor making the rounds in a plague-ridden cesspool hard. But there comes a point where everybody is healthy and every secret has been ferreted out, and then this part of the game just… stops. You can’t do anything with the information you uncover. The only thing you can do to effect change is kill people, and there’s only one or two cases where that would affect positive change. Also, the game judges you for it. This means that the morally correct course according to Vampyr is inaction: To simply let the sometimes quite severe tragedies you’ve uncovered continue.

    The main plot, meanwhile, does a good job structuring the traversal of the open world. When it comes to story, I would describe it as uneven. Some scenes are greatly engaging. Other times the script does a disservice to the plot, with uninspired dialogue. Some of the most interesting parts of the tale get too short a shrift, other times mistimed exposition dumps deflate the tension. It held together well enough to keep me engaged to the end

    As mentioned before: The technical aspects are serviceable to spectacular: Environmental design is great, lighting is great, character design is mostly fine, the score is unobtrusive, most vocal performances are fine, and I never had any problem with stability.

    All in all, I recommend this game.    … Expand
  2. Grizzlys
    Jan 4, 2022
    7
    Very complicated beautiful story i love it,but the combat is very sucks. But still worth it to buy
  3. showt
    Dec 20, 2019
    7
    1. Сюжет - 6.
    2. Графика - 7.
    3. Атмосфера - 8.
    4. Музыка, озвучка - 7.
    5. Второстепенный контент - 5.
    6. Геймплей - 6.
    7. Отимизация. теч. часть - 7.
    8. Управление - 8.
  4. Nicoray360
    Dec 2, 2018
    7
    A good game, with an interesting story.
    It is not a gameplay-focused game, more like an investigation/dialogue genre where you can shape the story collecting hints regarding NPCs.
    The choice to make it more difficult the less you abuse of humans is cool, but doing that locks many abilities away and you are stuck with keeping weapons upgraded to kill foes; a human abilities page,    A good game, with an interesting story.
    It is not a gameplay-focused game, more like an investigation/dialogue genre where you can shape the story collecting hints regarding NPCs.

    The choice to make it more difficult the less you abuse of humans is cool, but doing that locks many abilities away and you are stuck with keeping weapons upgraded to kill foes; a human abilities page, alternative to the vampire's, would have kept the problem away IMO.

    The story develops well IMO, always keeping a level of interest; choices are good but in the end are not so crucial regarding the game itself, while morally they represent something to think about because many are about religion, science and their boundaries, so not something to overlook.

    In-game London is cool and overall graphics are good, in a dark/noir atmosphere.

    A recommended experience    … Expand
  5. keredd1010
    Jul 6, 2018
    7
    Vampyr has some really good aspects and some not so much but overall the game experience was good. But I wouldn't pay more than $25 for it if I could. The game strength lies in it's writing so if you are not a fan of the talkie talkie, I would move on. It's weakness is the combat although not horrible it could use some tweaking. I also couldn't figure out how to target people with the K&MVampyr has some really good aspects and some not so much but overall the game experience was good. But I wouldn't pay more than $25 for it if I could. The game strength lies in it's writing so if you are not a fan of the talkie talkie, I would move on. It's weakness is the combat although not horrible it could use some tweaking. I also couldn't figure out how to target people with the K&M so I had to use the controller. I wish the game was a little more gruesome with the vampire bites as it seemed a bit tame. I also wasn't sure about the no fast travel in an open world setting. I mean, I understand why they did it. The game's full map is kinda small and having fast travel would have made the game a 15 hour game vs a 25 hour game. Game would have been more fun if it had a Nioh like combat and upgrade system. But definitely worth a peek.… Expand
  6. muzmuz
    Jun 17, 2018
    7
    A dark, desolate, narrative-heavy semi-open world RPG packaged with a unique NPC system, world building mechanic and a ton of vampires; Vampyr is undoubtedly a fresh take on the western RPG genre and a welcome one at that. While being not as rich as your typical triple A game of the same genre, Vampyr stands on its own hard ground.

    Sadly, the game punishes you for playing as a good guy    A dark, desolate, narrative-heavy semi-open world RPG packaged with a unique NPC system, world building mechanic and a ton of vampires; Vampyr is undoubtedly a fresh take on the western RPG genre and a welcome one at that. While being not as rich as your typical triple A game of the same genre, Vampyr stands on its own hard ground.

    Sadly, the game punishes you for playing as a good guy with all the high level enemies and bad level scaling. Top that off with a mediocre finale and an unsatisfying ending if you try to even slightly enjoy a major part of their game, which is choosing whose neck to bite, leaving you frustrated while the credits roll as you discover that this game counts how many you kill, and not who you choose to kill.

    A good game ruined by bad design decisions.    … Expand
  7. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 5, 2018
    7
    Vampyr
    It doesn’t suck
    Vampyr is a 3rd person action adventure rpg where you play as Dr Johnathan Reid. Youre dead. Well. Youre undead. Youre a vampire. Things happen that set you out to get answers and to save early 1900s London which is where this game is set… During the 1918 spanish flu… The game takes place in an open world with vampyr hunters crawling the streets, youre given    Vampyr
    It doesn’t suck
    Vampyr is a 3rd person action adventure rpg where you play as Dr Johnathan Reid.
    Youre dead. Well. Youre undead.
    Youre a vampire. Things happen that set you out to get answers and to save early 1900s London which is where this game is set…
    During the 1918 spanish flu…
    The game takes place in an open world with vampyr hunters crawling the streets, youre given tasks and markers on the map, and you spend the games 13 hour long campaign going from place to place, at first gathering materials for the hospital that takes you in.. in between all of these areas are of course enemies wanting you dead.. lucky for you youre a vampire… you have a skill tree that you dump your experience into that’s earned off of these enemies and that you get from completing quests and sidequests…
    and at the end of these missions theres usually a giant boss to take down, test out your skills, switching between one handed and two handed weapons, stunning enemies so you can bite them and drain their blood which allows you use the moves you’ve unlocked in your skill tree that not onlky need blood but run on a cool down as well.. and then the rest of the game youre investigating and gathering information..
    I guess you could say.. youre londons batman…
    this is when the game really starts to come to life.. you gather hints from characters that will unlock new dialog options of other charcters and you can go back and forther gathering info on the location of a person youre searching for…. But more importantly this is where the whole you being a vampire thing comes into play…
    you can play this game as a good vampire, controlling your thirst for blood.. or you caun be like me.. a naughty vampire.. sucking all that blood. If you see someone out there looking like a snack.. they can be..
    you can mesmerize characters, bring them into the shadows and drain them of their delicious blood, granting you a massive xp reward.. youre rewarded for being bad in that you can afford more skills, you become a more powerful vampire, thus the game is easier for you…
    but by doing so chaos will break loose in the territories t hat you take too much life from.. and this is where I had the most fun.. in the role playing of a vampire.. of getting my victims to invite me inside and little do they know im just a little thirsty…
    But now comes the tough love,
    Vampyr is essentially a mid life cycle ps3 game.
    There are so many mistakes made in this open world that just make this game painful.
    for starters there is no fast travel.
    there are hideouts spread all of this map where you can rest to spend your xp, refill your ammo, upgrade the weapons you find in the world.. but you cant travel to a single one of them…
    and its not like the game slowly moves you along the map, no.. these missions will have you running back and forth across this world constantly…
    this is made worse by the annoying decision to lock every single gate in the game.. you can just run from territory to territory, because theyre going to put a gat in the middle of the street that if you didn’t unlock from the otherside 7 hour ago, youre gonna have to run all the way around the map again.. dealing with other locked gates and paths…
    but a las it gets worse…
    its not as simple as running from one place to another there are enemies all over the place and you cant interact with unlocked gate while enemies are around.. forcing you to have to engage in combat before moving forward..
    but it somehow gets worse…
    the combat here is sluggish slow and unfun, special attacks use way too much blood for how little damage they do, and to get more blood you have to do enough stun damage for an enemy to be vulnerable to be bitten… fights just drag on forever.. im a vampire.. I want to feel like some untouchable god when im dealing with these hunters and vampire rejects in the streets…
    the only time the combat is fun is during boss battles.. boss battles are addictive and challenging.. forcing me to strategize.. its like the combat was made only with boss battles in mind and the street enemies weren’t balanced… fighting them isn’t fun.. theyre a nussiance.. it’s a chore
    BUT. IT. GETS. WORSE.
    youre not even rewarded for dealing with these garbage encounters
    These annoying enemies crawling all over the place only gain you 5 to 15 xp each.
    Higher level upgrades cost about 2000 xp each.
    That means you have to kill 130 to 400 for one single upgrade….
    I don’t know how this ridiculous unbalanced in risk reward was overlooked but it was..
    These enemies are far too much of a threat for you to need to kill 400 of them for an upgrade.
    Get out of here.
    That being said vampyr is still a good game.. I enjoyed the game, its currently one of my top 20 games of 2018 so far.
    Im just baffiled at the ps3 era mistakes made in a 2018 game
    thankfully The story, the world, and the roleplaying save this game..    … Expand
  8. Antares8001
    Aug 2, 2018
    7
    A solid RPGs with great atmosphere.

    First of all the early 20th century London is one of the most atmospheric and real feeling locations I've seen in a while. The graphics are hardly anything to write home about but the solid lighting effects and memorable art design really drive home what the developers wanted to do. As far as the story is concerned I've mixed feelings. The    A solid RPGs with great atmosphere.

    First of all the early 20th century London is one of the most atmospheric and real feeling locations I've seen in a while.
    The graphics are hardly anything to write home about but the solid lighting effects and memorable art design really drive home what the developers wanted to do.

    As far as the story is concerned I've mixed feelings. The introduction is rather awkwardly done and very on the nose, but it continually gets more interesting from this point onward and features many well done surprising twists and mostly rewarding side queasts.
    Luckily the writing has improved significantly compared to the studios previous effort, Life is Strange, as well. Gone is the on awkward pseudo-teenage slang garbage. Instead we get more nuanced conversation with surprisingly deep characters, most of which seem to have at least one intereseting secret. It's by no means perfect there are still more than a handful rather clumsily written lines.
    Be that as it may we also get to make quite a few interesting choices, but again without any significant impact on the story.
    While I think the game is solid enough in terms of it's story it should by no means be compared to the likes of the Witcher or the rather obvious comparison Vampire: The Masquerade. For every surprising good twist there's one you have to roll your eyes at and for everything innovative there's one cliche.
    However the dialog dialog writing pulls the story up to a thoroughly solid experiencen of the story.
    The game also features one very uinique thing that sets it further apart: The juxtaposition of being a doctor in a hospital who's trying to help people while also being a bloodsucking vampire and the struggle of maintaining your masquerade(pun intended), which it pulls of better than even the masterpiece that is Vampire: The Masquerade.
    The haunting and very fitting score does it's part in creating the atmosphere as well.

    Now unfortunately the game has some more serious weakneses as well. Namely the combat. You get all of the frustration of a Dark Souls game, none of the fairness and some of the clunkiest control scheems in the history of video games. Everytime there was a fight looming on the horizon I found myself desperately hoping that there will be a peaceful solution or that you somehow can sneak past the danger. To my severe discontent the solution is almost always to just beat the crap out of your enemies or suck them dry. And doing so you never feel like a powerful vampire with great abilites but rather like a piece of wet tissue paper with some cool sounding but ultimately boring and for the most part useless powers.

    Overall I have to say I'm a bit dissapointed given the great setting and atmosphere compared to which the rest of the games falls a bit flat.
    However seeing as this is a story focused RPG I still feel like the good things outweigh the bad, albeit only by a small margin. But considering that vampire games are surprisingly scarce, this manages to scratch a certain itch which together with it's art design and setting set it apart from the plethora of run of the mill action-RPGs. Definitely worth a try, if only to experience a darker iteration of early 20th London and talk to a couple of NPCs.    … Expand
  9. Sal
    Jun 5, 2018
    6
    A competent soulslike, let down by janky, uncomfortable combat, stilted dialogue, and lack of vision. Gorgeous graphics and sound design that massively overshadow every other aspect of the game tell me that the developer focused on entirely the wrong parts of the development cycle for an RPG.

    The investigation and npc mechanics are unique and could be cloned into a better RPG to make a    A competent soulslike, let down by janky, uncomfortable combat, stilted dialogue, and lack of vision. Gorgeous graphics and sound design that massively overshadow every other aspect of the game tell me that the developer focused on entirely the wrong parts of the development cycle for an RPG.

    The investigation and npc mechanics are unique and could be cloned into a better RPG to make a 10/10 game.

    Overall opinion, Okay, not outright bad but certainly not great. No performance issues on my rig.

    Game Price - £45
    Dont buy above - £20-25

    Extra Criticism - Why can i feed in battle and the enemies just ignore me?    … Expand
  10. DreamCore
    Jun 6, 2018
    5
    * Mediocre graphics
    * Sluggish controls and animations
    * Crappy combat system Game has lots of weird design decisions like that if you suck blood from someone they die instead of later turning into vampires themselves like real vampire lore. Also for some reason the Witch Hunters for some reason know that you're a vampire from miles away while normal citizens doesn't have a clue. If    * Mediocre graphics
    * Sluggish controls and animations
    * Crappy combat system

    Game has lots of weird design decisions like that if you suck blood from someone they die instead of later turning into vampires themselves like real vampire lore. Also for some reason the Witch Hunters for some reason know that you're a vampire from miles away while normal citizens doesn't have a clue. If you don't kill people for their blood and exp the game will be too hard to beat so you're pretty much forced to do this, which in turn has a negative impact on the districts etc, it just doesn't make sense. The most off putting thing about the game is the combat system. You can't hit anything unless you target it and when there are more than one enemy it simply doesn't work. It feels like an EXTREMELY bad version of Dark Souls.    … Expand
  11. dubesor
    Jun 8, 2018
    5
    the combat is dull and the way you level/sleep making the world move on and giving diseases to people just because you wanted to use your skillpoints is counter productive, I found myself often not wanting to spend EXP because then I would have to run around curing everyone again which is tedious as there is no mini map nor fast travel. The world is empty and locations just look the samethe combat is dull and the way you level/sleep making the world move on and giving diseases to people just because you wanted to use your skillpoints is counter productive, I found myself often not wanting to spend EXP because then I would have to run around curing everyone again which is tedious as there is no mini map nor fast travel. The world is empty and locations just look the same everywhere. the dialogue and story were meh at best. I didn't find myself caring about any of the characters and even if you did their missions it never resulted in anything. Just a hint found, done. No conclusion, no twists, nothing. The way that enemies levels are tweaked to always completely outlevel you even when consuming citizens is annoying to say the least. I was 8 levels below all enemies and having troubles so I decided to eat 2 citizens and spent the EXP. By doing that the world advances and the enemies gain more levels again thus me sacrificing citizens didn't do anything..

    Overall this game just has so many faults, I wasn't really enjoying my time with it, but I also didn't absolutely hate it. it is mediocre overall.    … Expand
  12. deuxdoom
    Jun 5, 2018
    6
    Poor action motion and not a fun narrative through vampire cliche. i cant recommend this game for the Dontnod fans.
  13. Hack
    Jul 11, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Vampyr had a ton of potential that ultimately went to waste.

    First the good, the story is interesting and well told with fantastic voice acting, the location is old school London which is always a fan favourite so no complaints there. The NPCs feel alive and are very fleshed out, and if one of them should die or be killed you do notice an effect on the town, depending on how important they were.

    The downsides are numerous, with poor optimisation leading to lower than expected frame rates, severe hitching/stuttering and an overall feeling of choppiness, especially in certain key locations. The combat is very clunky, with the KB+M controls especially feeling awful. The enemy lock on system doesn't work correctly, and will constantly cycle through targets if you barely touch the mouse, there's no way to disable this behaviour so I finished the game without using the lock on feature, which wasn't ideal. The camera also has issues which made the combat feel even more cumbersome at times.

    A major issue is the XP system, you gain the bulk of your XP from feeding on civilians, if you choose not to feed you're incredibly weak, which makes the game frustratingly difficult, but if you do decide to feed well good luck at the end, because the last boss scales with how many people die during the game, and they become impossible to kill from my experience. I faced them at level 37, while they were 51 (their maximum), at this level deficit they were unkillable, the devs really need to tune this scaling as it's just not balanced right now, and can lead to you not being able to finish the game at all.

    Overall my lasting feeling is one of disappointment, I've been looking forward to Vampyr since it was announced but it just didn't live up to expectations.    … Expand
  14. Drones200
    Jun 6, 2018
    7
    A huge console port. This aint no witcher.
    My fast review focusing on the negatives:
    Lot of bugs that don't break the game but are quiet amusing/annoying depending on immersion. For example, on a certain morgue supply room quest there is an animation that triggers after obtaining X key to head towards level boss fight. It is intended to only trigger once in which the boss appears    A huge console port. This aint no witcher.
    My fast review focusing on the negatives:

    Lot of bugs that don't break the game but are quiet amusing/annoying depending on immersion.

    For example, on a certain morgue supply room quest there is an animation that triggers after obtaining X key to head towards level boss fight. It is intended to only trigger once in which the boss appears and disssapears. Once you kill said boss and return to that area the animation will trigger again but the boss remains dead.

    so you see the same guy over and over again even though he died

    The same thing for another quest leaving a certain area in which the main character notes only human left that blood and on purpose, meaning a trap is ahead which triggers a boss fight.

    well after u win, everytime u pass by there your character will repeat the same dialogue but no boss fight will trigger, u dont have to press anything either he just says it as u walk by it, and u will often for other quest. ITs quite ammusing

    Lots of other minor bugs and gliches

    the biggest problem i find is lack of save, you cannot go back or manually save, it relies on a strict auto save system which really is a lazy way of penalizing you in making wrong decisions. Forcing you to replay the game to change one thing is quiet absurd on such a "huge" game

    clone enemies
    enemies will spawn in the same area over and over again even after you wipe them out, they dont just respawn but they repeat the same animations over and over again..kills immersion quick.

    meaning you wipe a street full of thugs or vamps who are just talking or looting, well everytime you rest n pass by there they are there again DOING THE EXACT same thing.
    I mean not even walking a different route or hanging out in a different corner, nope same lazy enemy.

    There is also a false promise of open world, the world is far from open, thee are a ton of invisible walls shown by level cap. You can be fighting a level 9 enemy in the street, turn a corner and find 4 level 20's, meaning that area is off limits. You are forced to follow main quest line or else enemies with much higher levels will impede your exploration of a map thats not that big to begin with.

    This is a problem for certain reasons
    a big one was that exploring the map, in this open world rpg, i triggered a help citizen quest being attacked by vamps x3 my level, for some reason they spiked from 10 to 23, ofcourse I died and could not go to that area, however that mean that character died permanently and the district security went down.

    So the game penalized me harshly for exploring the map and the invisible wall is very clear to the level caps that impede exploration. It is very lazy
    very buggy but unique in the regard you can **** **** up as a vampire. The story is w.e, the animations for characters are not witcher more like vanilla skyrim before HD mods quality..the game is fun I wont lie, it is a good action jackson-shallow console rpg with a little bit of everything, exploration, "open world", rpg progression and side quest. However they are all doon very subpar, just good enough to pass for playable but far from perfect or the likes of The Witcher.

    game is 7/10    … Expand
  15. xavia91
    Jun 5, 2018
    6
    It is clearly missing some love and polish, lazy animations, boring combat. After the success of Life is Strange I expected a more compelling Story, but this is just boring cliche and didn't manage to get me engaged right from the start, I am just sucking blood from the first enemies I met, like it is the most normal thing in the world and no chance to spare them...
  16. parallax_84
    Jul 24, 2018
    7
    Great game! Good voice acting, full of dialogue that keeps you engaged. The story is also good and it has a satisfying ending. Some people may get bored probably because you have to talk a lot but if you are willing to it has its reward.
    Probably the weakest point of this game is the combat but the focus isnt there, the focus is on the choices you have to make and the consequences that    Great game! Good voice acting, full of dialogue that keeps you engaged. The story is also good and it has a satisfying ending. Some people may get bored probably because you have to talk a lot but if you are willing to it has its reward.
    Probably the weakest point of this game is the combat but the focus isnt there, the focus is on the choices you have to make and the consequences that those choices will bring.
    Most of the characters are interesting and you can ask them a lot .
    Another weak point are the sidequests most of them are boring and with the lack of fast travel they can get annoying, this game needs fast travel even if the map is not that big.
    Pros
    -Story
    -Dialogue and district system
    -You have to choose carefully who are you going to kill
    -Some powers

    Cons
    -Combat
    -No fast travel
    -Sidequests    … Expand
  17. altaydron
    Jun 8, 2018
    6
    Отвратительная анимация, вампиры сказочные,а не фантастические, убогая боёвка, мало развитий событий. В очередной раз обманули! Мусор!!!
  18. Aezak
    Jun 6, 2018
    6
    Vampyr inanılmaz derecede beklediğim bir oyundu. Çok fazla beklentiye girdim. Sonuç ise beklentimin çok azını karşıladı. Oyunla ilgili hayallerim çok daha farklıydı. Vampir temasını tam oturtamamışlar. Oyun ne olmak istediğini kendisi de bilmiyor. Souls vari mi yoksa adam akıllı bir hikaye mi anlatmak istediklerinden emin değiller. Hikaye başlangıcı filan gayet hoş başlıyor devamında daVampyr inanılmaz derecede beklediğim bir oyundu. Çok fazla beklentiye girdim. Sonuç ise beklentimin çok azını karşıladı. Oyunla ilgili hayallerim çok daha farklıydı. Vampir temasını tam oturtamamışlar. Oyun ne olmak istediğini kendisi de bilmiyor. Souls vari mi yoksa adam akıllı bir hikaye mi anlatmak istediklerinden emin değiller. Hikaye başlangıcı filan gayet hoş başlıyor devamında da fena ilerlemiyor fakat dövüş sistemi. Oyunda savaşlar gerçekten zorlayıcı ve bu zorlayıcılık da bir süre sonra hikayeden koparıyor ve zor oyun sevmeyen insanları sadece hikaye isteyen insanları oyundan koparıyor. Asıl eksiyi ise şuradan veriyorum. Oyunda herhangi bir zorluk seviyesi yok oyun default olarak neyse öyle oynamak zorundasınız buda bir önceki cümlede dediğimi doğuruyor. Zor oyunlardan hoşlanmayanlar oyundan kopuyor bu yüzden.

    Vampyr temasını seviyorsanız şu anda piyasada bulunan en adamakıllı oyun bu. Dark Souls veya Bloodborne seviyorsanız dövüş mekanikleri ve zorluğu sizi sıkmayacaktır ama zorlanmayı sevmeyen oyuncular için temkinli yaklaşmalarını tavsiye ederim.

    VAMPYR =) 6/10    … Expand
  19. Abhorrence
    Jun 10, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Vampyr has been a game that I awaited with excitement for a while now, and upon its release I jumped right into the game to explore my life as a Vampire. While the game at first holds nothing special, the combat being pretty generic, the dialogue of the enemies and the interaction of the main character with rats or doors for example being extremely repetitive, just like the types of enemies you have to face. There is this rush of excitement when you get dressed on the boat and get to interact with the workers of the Hospital, your mind starts thinking of possibilities of what the game holds. Only to explore the game and be sorely disappointed by the RPG elements of the game .Only a few weapons available in the game and if you want to deal damage you can only go with 3 of them(for my play-through at least). absolutely zero customization of your costume or your weapons or having a little logo added to the hideouts, the game is extremely linear in its fashion, however it presents itself as a role playing one. the combat system is one of the most annoying things to deal with, often you need to learn the move-set of characters by heart because there they do not show what kind of attacks they will do, hitbox issues to go along with this. movement in the game was also buggy and often one key would get stuck to only move in one direction and readjustment was required. the story is a good one if not a little dull at some points, the world building is excellent, greatly imbued with magic through the amazing soundtrack and sound design. That is essentially what puts the game together, aspects of the story and the music. Sadly only one of your choice matters, kill citizens or do not. You can be forgiven for one of the killing but the ending is still grim. the game implies that your actions have consequences, that the fate of the districts lie on your choices but they do not matter. feeding on the civilians is very fun and my first civilian kill was on a boy. I talked to his father Joe Peterson and he said that he did not know what he would do without his son, so of course i killed his son. the father went missing and i felt very unsatisfied in how the only thing that comes of from you killing people is their relatives go missing and the percentage of the district goes down. Later i found Joe had joined the Guard of Priwen and i thought oh great i remember this guy, maybe we can get some closure but we didn't even exchange a word, he just died. In order to get the most out of feeding on the civilians you must unlock hints for them, even do their side quests, which attaches you to them a little, which is a good part because it shows you the evils of your doing and hopefully making you feel bad. One of the pillars who offers a lot of XP tempted me very much to embrace him and get that sweet power, but i held it back and "saved" the district. But my choice didn't matter, not really. But if you decide to go and kill and pillage that is a fun way to experience the game, but with so many upgrades, there isn't really a good way to get to the endgame of Vampyr, and that would be fine as you would finish the game and do a New Game Plus where you don't have to get the Mesmerise levels up so you wouldn't waste as much time but there isn't even that, you have to start over as a weakling. In conclusion the game is wonky, the story is alright, the music is great, the combat is ok at best and horrible at worst, the choices you make mostly do not matter. the game promised choice and consequences and the only consequence it delivered was the a blow to my excitement… Expand
  20. fevbwfth
    Jun 11, 2018
    7
    It's an interesting game..problem is Unreal Engine still looks like crap no matter how much modded with various effects compared to witcher and cry engine even compared to frostbite it looks 1 gen. before
  21. Overpaid
    Sep 15, 2019
    5
    Could have been brilliant, but ruined as an experience by countless bugs. I could live with it crashing every half and hour, and then it became every ten minutes, and in the end, about a third of the way through the game, it started to crash on load, and I gave up.
  22. kuehnau
    Dec 9, 2018
    5
    Vampyre is kind of a hybred of a adventure/horror/rpg/mystery game in which you play as a Doctor who has managed to come down with a bad case of vampirism. While struggling with his own demons, he also finds himself in the middle of a horrible epidemic of spanish flu.

    Your role in the game is to discover why you were turn into a vampire while still trying to hold on your humanity and    Vampyre is kind of a hybred of a adventure/horror/rpg/mystery game in which you play as a Doctor who has managed to come down with a bad case of vampirism. While struggling with his own demons, he also finds himself in the middle of a horrible epidemic of spanish flu.

    Your role in the game is to discover why you were turn into a vampire while still trying to hold on your humanity and save as many people as possible, all while groups of hunters and monsters attempt to tear you to ribbions.

    The entire concept is actually really good, but it has been implemented poorly as there is a complete lack of polish to the game.

    There have been times that dialog spoken and subtitles do not match, as if the voice actors couldn't properly remember what they were supposed to say. Sometimes, there can be multiple vocal dialogs going on at the same time, making it hard to understand who is saying what or what is going on.

    Characters have what appears to be almost completely static faces, It's almost impossible to be able to tell how they feel or what they are thinking based on looking at their faces. There are cases in which characters may be talking but their mouths don't even move.

    Most of the game enviroments feel like they are nothing more than cattle paths, pushing you to a specific location or place. A bigger issue arises when locations are built maze like and you are never quite sure where you are supposed to go. Add to the fact the quest tracker for the game is complete garbage and it can be a overall frustrating experience trying to get a job done.

    For a game that likes to tout that your decisions and choices matter, a lot of times it feels like the developers (or in this case the writers) often try to shoehorn you into many decisions to meet whatever criteria they have for the writing of the story.

    As RPGs go, I never really felt immersed in the game, because I couldn't put myself in the role of the main character and the game refused to allow me to make choices that I would want, instead simply forcing the character's opinions on me. What makes this even more frustrating is the game never really gives you any clear ideas on what your choices will do or how they will change the landscape, comebine that with a completely unforgiving save system that refuses to allow you to back track.

    Combat is the worst part of the game by far, especially with the stamina system they have in place. Playing as a vampire you should feel powerful, but often everyone else around you is more powerful than you in almost all aspects. What kind of vampire gets tired after swinging an axe two or three times? I mean honestly!

    Enemies are often at much higher levels than you, putting you at a constant disadvantage. Expect to die. A lot. You'll constantly encounter quests that are 5 or 6 times out of your level range, the only way you'll know they don't expect you to be there yet is by going in to an area and dying. When I bought this game, I wasn't under the impression this was some sort of Dark Souls knock off.

    It really is a beautiful game under all of this rust, but I would never be able to recommend this game to anyone at it's full retail price. If you can get it at a discount (like I did), go for it. Otherwise I'd suggest you wait.    … Expand
  23. Mandulum
    Jan 28, 2019
    7
    Haiku Review: Not enough shades of / grey. It is all black or white / I wanted more depth
    Favorite Thing: The story is pretty interesting.
    Least Favorite Thing: The combats bad, yeah yeah, you've heard that before so let me find something else. Why does embracing someone always have to be bad for a district? There were more than a few people whose removal should have improved a district.    Haiku Review: Not enough shades of / grey. It is all black or white / I wanted more depth
    Favorite Thing: The story is pretty interesting.
    Least Favorite Thing: The combats bad, yeah yeah, you've heard that before so let me find something else. Why does embracing someone always have to be bad for a district? There were more than a few people whose removal should have improved a district.

    Date Completed: 2019-01-07
    Playtime: 21h
    Enjoyment: 7/10
    Recommendation: If you can look past the combat you'll probably enjoy it.    … Expand
  24. wakeem
    Oct 31, 2019
    7
    Good combat and mechanics, decent story and a great setting. I liked the paradox between feeding on people and being a doctor. Let down by poor optimisation really and the game felt a little too long in the end. But enjoyed the game nonetheless, the feeling of a whirling death machine felt great.
  25. Xzenor
    Mar 4, 2020
    7
    Love the story, the graphics, the setting..
    There are some off things though.. The dialogs don't always match up. If you don't follow the scripted path, the people may expect you to have had a conversation that you did not yet have.
    You also feel limited in game-play. Some places you can jump as a vampire but on other places, even smaller jumps, you can't. It feels a little off.. you're    Love the story, the graphics, the setting..
    There are some off things though.. The dialogs don't always match up. If you don't follow the scripted path, the people may expect you to have had a conversation that you did not yet have.
    You also feel limited in game-play. Some places you can jump as a vampire but on other places, even smaller jumps, you can't. It feels a little off.. you're a big fancy vampire with fancy vampire powers but you can't even jump on a low crate if the game doesn't need you to be up there. It's heavily scripted.

    I do recommend it though. It's a really cool story and it's being told in a cool way. The game looks good and even though the game-play feels incredibly scripted and limiting at times, it does fit.    … Expand
  26. Zurce
    Jul 9, 2018
    7
    Un buen juego en el apartado conversacional y narrativo, decae en su apartado técnico y sistema de combate. Recomendado para todos aquellos amantes de la temática y ambientación.
  27. uVimOvil
    Jan 20, 2019
    5
    m uchas ilusiones y expectativas y una absoluta decepcion, no me atrapo en ningun momento durante la primera hora, lo descambie y mire por internet videos y definitivamente hice bien en descambiarlo, lo apruebo raspao porque se que es un juego que a alguien le puede llegar a enganchar a mi en lo absoluto.
  28. Plan3tX
    Jun 12, 2018
    5
    What was supposed to be a unique take on both RPG and vampire genre turned out as talking simulator. The story is mediocre and doesn't make you want to push forward. You'll spend most of the time in dialogues and running between districts while trying to avoid boring combat (shadow veil skill will be your best friend). The game can be hard sometimes if you don't want to kill any NPC butWhat was supposed to be a unique take on both RPG and vampire genre turned out as talking simulator. The story is mediocre and doesn't make you want to push forward. You'll spend most of the time in dialogues and running between districts while trying to avoid boring combat (shadow veil skill will be your best friend). The game can be hard sometimes if you don't want to kill any NPC but sadly not in satisfying way - boss fights feel like copy-paste with minor changes. Technically Vampyr feels unpolished - I experienced a few crashes, some visual and sound glitches as well.
    There are, of course, things that Vampyr excels at - atmosphere is great. Streets of 1918 London are gloomy and unwelcoming, people sad and distrustful. Soundtrack is a masterpiece. Main character is well written. I really liked Jonathan Reid and his journey as a newborn vampire.
    All things considered the game deserves an average score - 5/10. If you're considering buying it, wait for a sale or humble bundle - it's not worth a full price of 60$.    … Expand
  29. Brokemono
    Jun 21, 2018
    7
    Depending on the budget they had...I don't think they had much to spend on making the game but they made it worth something or tried their best. I really liked the story and the gameplay was satisfying enough.
  30. SinitarGaming
    Aug 20, 2018
    6
    Ok, let's go.

    Pros: - Really great recreation of London of that times, gloomy and dark world design. - Beautiful graphics in general with great work on lighting and shadows as well as badass-looking combat and abilities visuals. - Original approach to a storyline walkrough - drain everyone and become the most powerful monster ever, or try to calm monster inside you and stay human as    Ok, let's go.

    Pros:
    - Really great recreation of London of that times, gloomy and dark world design.
    - Beautiful graphics in general with great work on lighting and shadows as well as badass-looking combat and abilities visuals.
    - Original approach to a storyline walkrough - drain everyone and become the most powerful monster ever, or try to calm monster inside you and stay human as much as posisble, solving quests through talks and helping other people. Both ways have own pros and cons.
    - Noticable inspiration from Vampire: The Masquerade

    Cons:
    - Repeative combat animations.
    - While story itself is great there's noticable lack of charisma and character depnth in NPCs.
    - Some not very rational aspects of combat and movement in both human and vampire forms.

    Vampyr has mixed reviews from both critics and players for reasons. It's still a GOOD game, but it looks and feels like pretty much unfinished - and that's why I personally think it's simply overpriced. But if you personally love vampire games in general - you should take a more deep look on it, as most likely you'll truly enjoy it despite of its flaws. Buy it with a decent discount and you'll be fine.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    60
    A horror action adventure game with cool duels, an impressive atmosphere with the need to think about the consequences of your actions. Unfortunately, the final experience is not perfect. [Issue#287]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 26, 2018
    75
    It feels like the script was written by three different people. One’s responsible for all these cringeworthy lines, another came up with some truly interesting characters, and the third one thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to preach his values: for example, at one point our strictly-rational atheist doctor will have to confess his sins. [Issue#231, p.56]
  3. Games.cz
    Jul 13, 2018
    60
    Vampyr can bewitch with its atmosphere and conquer with the skillful delivery of a quality story. However, the RPG and action parts didn´t succeed, and the intended main pull in the form of heavy choices, whom to kill and whom to let live, is also lost to the lack of impact of your action. Although the game can entertain in the end, it often disappoints instead.
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