Vampyr - Reviews

Some more reviews for Vampyr.

TrustedReviews

Vampyr might not be what many wanted after Life Is Strange, but it’s still an enjoyable – well, as enjoyable as its grim nature allows – game nonetheless. It follows the modern action RPG template almost to a fault, but the agency the player has in shaping the districts by disease control and straight up murder is a lot more interesting than some of the moments in other games within the genre, where they present you a binary choice that pushes the plot forward. It’s a decent idea holding up an otherwise solid game, but overall Vampyr is worth a look if you’re looking for something to plug the gap in your life in this post- Witcher 3 world.

Quillstreak

As reluctant as I am to suggest yet another game should just do what Assassin’s Creed does, I’m inclined to say that if you swapped all the neck-stabbing animations in Syndicate for neck-biting ones you’d end up with something more like what Vampyr feels like it should be. I don’t feel like a vampire playing this game. I feel like a wooden doll trudging through the world, having fixed-eye-contact conversations with half the other dolls (we didn’t ditch that after Oblivion?) and bouncing off the rest with a hatchet. There’s room in the market for a game like Vampyr, but this game isn’t it. This one could do with staying put in the coffin.

Screenrant

Vampyr, though, is an extremely ambitious game from an independent developer who strived to do something different. And in that, it succeeded: Vampyr isn't really like any other title out there. Sure, players won't make any emotional connections to the characters of this game like they did with Life Is Strange. There is also just too much going on for it to feel cohesive. But the game itself, in its novelty, still often proves entertaining. And who doesn't like stepping into the shoes of a creature of the night?

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