Vampire: the Masquerade - Swansong Review
362I caught a really bad throat cold during the week and was only able to record this today. Sorry for the shitty voice over but I had to take breaks in between recording.
There are a lot of things, good and bad, I left out of this review, but hopefully this review will paint up how incredibly frustrating playing this game is. There is a great game buried beneath all the obnoxious contrivances, and I am sad that I couldn't be more positive about this game.
If you are an aspiring Storyteller, play this game to see just how important it is to reward your players. This game reads, beat for beat, as a series of sessions where the Storyteller considers the players their enemy and provides them challenge after challenge without giving much thought what the point of them is.
This is a deeply flawed game, but unlike Earthblood, which I never got back to, this game had me play it all through as quickly as life would let me. It left me feeling that there were so many interesting plot threads, so many fascinating NPCs that never got fleshed out or were delivered upon.
All in all, I'm thankful this game got finished, and I think it's a game fans of Vampire: the Masquerade should play, but only after some patching, and hopefully not at full price.
I still want to say thank you to Big Bad Wolf Studio for making this game. You folks did your damndest and it shows. Don't let this poor review get you down, I know you didn't do this half-assed.
Oh, and if I got something wrong about the game, feel free to correct me. I got the game this week, was sick while playing it, and didn't have much time for a second playthrough, so I'm sure I got some details wrong.
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