Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

100% success rate to influence a conversation, and somehow IT FAILS?

(I bought the game in another store when it first came out) I liked it. It's a narrative experience with a lot of walking and investigating - which is what actual tabletop WoD games are about. Just like there, you don't play a killing machine that rams through corridor-like locations, like in Bloodlines 1, instead you walk, talk and try your best trying piece things together while almost every character you interact with has their own agenda and are happy to bend you over. The dialog is good, the characters are interesting. The graphics are meh, no objection there

I sincerely wish I had read the reviews before buying - this is among the worst games I have ever played. There is no save mechanic and the game is full of bugs. It often becomes necessary to restart a scene to correct issues, but the inability to save means that restarting a scene can require repeating several hours of play. I had to repeat every scene at least once; 12 hours in, after repeating the fifth scene 7 times, I decided it wasn't worth the time and effort despite having purchased the game at full price. If you enjoy being frequently frustrated and repeating the same less than inspiring dialog over and over and over and over again then this might be the game for you. Otherwise, don't waste your money even if it's on sale for $5.

I really wanted to like this game having absolutely loved other games in this universe, unfortunately it borders on unplayable. the save system in the game can erase hours of progress if you don't understand how it works.

DO NOT buy this game. It is not worth your time or money, even if you love VtM. I got it for 90% off on sale, and still wish I had refunded it after completing it. Pros: -genuinely feels like a VtM installment. Good world building/lore. -that's literally it. Everything else went to complete ♥♥♥♥ once this project left the writer's room. Cons: -the devs seem to be allergic to attractive protagonists. Two of the main characters were completely insufferable, and the only one that was actually attractive got tortured and is horribly mutilated for the last third of the game. -NPCS range from forgettable to grinding nails on a chalkboard. I'm looking at you, annoying child character with a lisp. Many are introduced and set up with plot threads, and then immediately forgotten with no payoff for helping them. -the animations and character modeling are just atrocious. They didn't even try to lip sync dialogue, and there are noticable stutters during animtions and between cuts. -the graphics are very, very bad. I was playing on maxiumum settings, and I would have sworn this game came out 10 years older than it actually did. -there are so many game breaking bugs. During my playthrough,…

if you are dissapointed with Bloodliines 2 try this game. Bloodlines 2 has action but little in the way of roleplaying. This is like the mirror to that game. Heaps of roleplaying options but little action. I love this much more than Bloodlines 2. Lets you really get into the Roleplaying. I really love it.