A good game to buy on sale.

I rather enjoyed feeling like I was playing a macabre version of Downton Abbey, conversing with well written characters, with decent voice acting. I like that your choices have consequences, and killing NPCs ripples through the community and has lasting effects. However I don't like how with most NPCs you meet you can't actually improve their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lives, you just sort of address their issues and walk away, unresolved.

The combat is okay I guess, nothing to write home about, it served its purpose. Unless you want to go on a killing rampage get ready to utilise 40% of your moveset for the entire game, because you have to kill to get decent XP.

I think in the end I got sick of having to talk to every NPC and exhaust all the dialogue options in their skill trees, especially when I know I ultimately can't actually do anything to help these people, all I can do is drink their blood and make them sad. ESPECIALLY when by the end of the game the NPC personalities got a little strange and unbelievable, like they were running out of good characters.

If you like story rich games with interesting themes (and vampires (sorry I mean Ekons)), like I said, this is worth picking up on sale. It was interesting enough for me to commit almost 40 hours to complete, so that's saying something.

A good game to buy on sale. I rather enjoyed feeling like I was playing a macabre version of Downton Abbey, conversing with well written characters, with decent voice acting. I like that your choices have consequences, and killing NPCs ripples through the community and has lasting effects. However I don't like how with most NPCs you meet you can't actually improve their shitty lives, you just sort of address their issues and walk away, unresolved. The combat is okay I guess, nothing to write home about, it served its purpose. Unless you want to go on a killing rampage get ready to utilise 40% of your moveset for the entire game, because you have to kill to get decent XP. I think in the end I got sick of having to talk to every NPC and exhaust all the dialogue options in their skill trees, especially when I know I ultimately can't actually do anything to help these people, all I can do is drink their blood and make them sad. ESPECIALLY when by the end of the game the NPC personalities got a little strange and unbelievable, like they were running out of good characters. If you like story rich games with interesting themes (and vampires (sorry I mean Ekons)), like I said, this is worth picking up on sale. It was interesting enough for me to commit almost 40 hours to complete, so that's saying something.