I was nervous when they announced a week's delay five days before launch, and unfortunately, my fears were justified. I really wanted to give this a thumbs up since I've been a VtM fan since the late 90's and it's been so long since we got a Vampire video game, but alas, it is not meant to be.

The game nails the feel of Vampire. It looks good for a visual novel. The soundtrack is pretty decent. That's about all the good things I can say, though.

Things start off well enough and I was hyped for the first hour, then the bugs started tearing their ugly head. Typos and glitches like placeholder code for your character's name being in the text instead of your actual name. Being able to use disciplines you don't have. Scenes not triggering. For them wanting to take an extra week to fix things, I don't even want to think about what this would be like without that extra time.

You also get the illusion of being in charge of the narrative, and then you get rammed into the ending sequence with the power of a freight train. And while the ending itself is very on brand with VtM, the way the devs go about it is clumsy and just very poorly written.

6.5/10