Warts and all, I love this game - it scratches this really specific itch for us who like an RPG set in a dark and decadent urban setting, and the more I play the more I realize that this game copies beat for beat the controversies that plagued VtM Bloodlines on release: basically being forced to release a fundamentally unfinished and bugged product with many missing features. Like VtM, it has an undercurrent of latent misogyny that's parsed as 'gritty', but the narrative is often brilliant in its presentation and sheer inventiveness and basically every corner of the game drips with detail and atmosphere - it gives this beautifully vibrant setting, memorable characters (Johnny is essentially Jack from Bloodlines) and the typically noir sense that you are a small fry in a web of corruption and manipulation. Not to mention, both have a similar dark electro killer theme song that tells you from the get go that you are in for a dark and lush treat!
Discuss I guess?
Discuss I guess?
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