Vampyr

1. Duubz

   Jun 9, 2021

   10

   Truly the most underrated and underappreciated video game out there, and one of my personal all-time favourites. The pinnacle of atmosphere.Truly the most underrated and underappreciated video game out there, and one of my personal all-time favourites. The pinnacle of atmosphere. You play as a Doctor - someone sworn to protect those who have fallen to the plague - who has become a Vampire, now placed in a bloodthirsty moral dilemma of upkeeping his Hippocratic Oath and saving lives, or satisfying his thirst.
   
   Each scene is crafted with so much affection and attention to detail, with cinematography as beautiful as something you'd see at a Sundance Film Festival. The soundtrack is absolutely incredible. If Vampyr as a game is underrated, then it's an absolute travesty that the soundtrack to this game is not at the forefront of some music in video games award ceremony. The moody, noir style disease-stricken London of post WWI is expertly crafted. It all comes together to create such a unique, powerful ATMOSPHERE that is just hard to describe.
   
   The game perhaps isn't quite for everyone which is where the mixed reviews come in. It requires a lot of investment from the player in order to get the most out of it, it's not something to blindly rush through to get to the ending. Likewise, the combat is far from the most polished system, but it's also far from the main focus, which is the brilliant writing and narrative, coupled with a unique and borderline innovative video game concept of having the choice to kill or spare every single minor or and major NPC in the game.… Expand

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2. Paulo969

   Oct 1, 2018

   9

   Simplesmente brilhante. A intereçao com as personagens deste mundo é muito elaborada e complexa. O combate é bastante satisfatorio, fazendoSimplesmente brilhante. A intereçao com as personagens deste mundo é muito elaborada e complexa. O combate é bastante satisfatorio, fazendo lembrar por vezes bloodborne. Mais uma masterpiece desta editora depois do já brilhante Remenber Me. Obrigatorio.… Expand

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4. Drakeula

   Jun 6, 2018

   9

   The game would be a solid 10 if it had that AAA budget polish it truly deserves! I love the in depth lore and how everything is so connectedThe game would be a solid 10 if it had that AAA budget polish it truly deserves! I love the in depth lore and how everything is so connected with the many interesting NPC’s and beautifully crafted level design.… Expand

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5. LuukasSiqueira

   Apr 2, 2019

   7

   O jogo é uma obra de arte moderada. A história é fantástica, os diálogos, narrativas e até mesmo os gráficos são agradáveis.
   Um que me deixouO jogo é uma obra de arte moderada. A história é fantástica, os diálogos, narrativas e até mesmo os gráficos são agradáveis.
   Um que me deixou um frustado no jogo foi o tempo absurdamente demorado nos loadings, além de um desequilíbrio nos inimigos.… Expand

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6. 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.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

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7. SenorKoquonfaes

   Nov 14, 2019

   7

   Having bought the game on sale for $20 CAD a few months ago and liking some of the other games Dontnod has release, picking up this game was aHaving bought the game on sale for $20 CAD a few months ago and liking some of the other games Dontnod has release, picking up this game was a no-brainer.
   
   The setting of early 20th Century alternative London I thought was well done. The art direction does a decent job of giving the player that feeling of being in a dark, depressing and gloomy world being ravaged by a plague with almost no hope in sight. Abandoned buildings, dead bodies wrapped up and pilled onto carts and vigilante patrols give a sense of dread and unease. There's a few interesting Sin City-esque scenes that I also enjoyed.
   
   The story and concept I think are fine; it's a branching story with choice and consequences. You play as Dr. Jonathan Reid who returns home to London from the frontlines of World War 1 only to discover he's turned into a vampire and has to figure out why and what impact it has on the world around him. The NPC backstories of each district are presented well enough and there's a motivation to get to know them as well. The more you unearth about them, the more desirable their blood becomes, which results in a huge bump in XP should you choose suck their blood. This is valuable for stat upgrades. You also have to craft them medicine if they begin to feel sick; their sickness decreases the value of their blood. If you choose to feed on any of the NPCs, their death will have rippling effects on the health of the district, particularly if one of the district "pillars" goes down.
   
   However, I though the execution of all of this came up a bit short. As easy as it would be to just munch on a bunch of the NPCs for the giant XP boosts, I got by well enough with out having to kill anyone. Since you also get XP boosts from completing story missions, side quests, healing NPCs when they're sick and murdering thugs in standard combat. It left me a little bit under-leveled throughout the game, particularly in boss fights, but attack pattern recognition and a lot of patience are the keys to victory in that scenario.
   
   The combat is very Dark Souls-like: melee-centric with light attacks (one hand/off hand weapons), heavy attacks (two-handed weapons), stun damage, parrying, dodging and stamina management, instead of resting at bonfires, you rest in a bed in a hideout which you need to seek out and enemies comeback if you rest or die. However it's not as fluid or as tightly designed as Dark Souls. There's also special vampire attacks that rely on your "blood capacity". Some of them I found effective such as "Blood Cauldron" or "Claws", other I didn't even touch like "Shadow Mist" or "Coagulation".
   
   The dialogue flows a bit weird at times (Tell me more your job, tell me more about this city, tell me more about your relationship with... etc) and it sometimes makes it feel like a bit of drag knowing that this will the help the player get to know the NPC's backstories a little better. It also felt just plain drawn out at other times, especially after boss fights and towards the end of the game. There is a romance aspect of the story, but it feels rather forced and just seems to spring up out of left field.
   
   Overall, I think i can recommend Vampyr at a discount, but less so as a full priced game.… Expand

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8. Broyax

   Apr 2, 2019

   0

   Le studio français Dontnod (dont le surnom affectueux est don't know parce qu'ils ne savent pas) s'est surtout spécialisé dans les indés àLe studio français Dontnod (dont le surnom affectueux est don't know parce qu'ils ne savent pas) s'est surtout spécialisé dans les indés à deux balles, voire deux francs cinquante (en anciens francs bien sûr) selon le moment ou l'opportunisme ambiant avec notamment des espèces de jeux épisodiques pour ados émos.
   
   Quand ils se sont risqués sur des jeux plus ambitieux genre triple ou double A, ils se sont gauffrés méchamment... Et ce Vampyr (avec un Y) ne déroge pas à la triste "tradition". Tout y en effet mal fait, bâclé, soit par manque de moyens, soit par incapacité caractérisée. Ainsi l'histoire après une intro qui capterait presque l'attention, s'effiloche bien vite et le personnage principal (le héros ?) fait passer l'inspecteur Derrick pour un monstre de charisme.
   
   Les mécaniques de jeu mises en oeuvre sont repompées maladroitement sur tout ce qui se fait déjà ou ce qui s'est déjà fait et nous sont recrachées par un élève qui ne fait que régurgiter sa leçon sans l'avoir comprise... Les combats par exemple (avec cette jauge d'endurance bidon)sont aussi ennuyeux que foutraques avec une caméra qui fait n'importe quoi.
   
   La mini-carte est absente et de façon générale, l'interface est à la fois laide et mal fichue... Vampyr se prend pour un jeu de rôle (?) mais ses dialogues (en anglais uniquement) sont lénifiants au possible... Graphiquement, c'est flou, assez vilain, sans inspiration et toujours pareil, très monotone et le jeu se permet de nombreux ralentissements y compris sur la X.
   
   On s'emmerde rapidement et comme c'est pas permis dans ce jeu foireux, plat et très fade : on incarne un vampire d'opérette dans une ville vide ni faite ni à faire, boulottée par des incapables qui ne savent pas !… Expand

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