Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines: A Flawed Masterpiece

[Music] vampire the masquerade bloodlines is one of those games that tends to occasionally enter the peripheral of pc gamers when vampire games in general are mentioned it's always had pretty damn good reviews it's always been considered a cult classic even with over 7000 reviews now on steam alone it tends to be one of those games that just didn't seem like it was going to be in the category that it wound up in it's gotta be horror right no not particularly at least not by say silent hill or resident evil standards the video game's actually based off of a tabletop rpg released way back in 1991 which means vtm bloodlines basically did in 2004 what cyberpunk 2077 is doing this year i've had this game on my to playlist since 2014 and it's been mentioned to me numerous times by quite a few fans of the game as something that would fit well on my channel well with the help of my comrades over at gog i've managed to secure another deal with them for a 55 off discount over the next couple of days with it being october and the semi-recent news about a sequel coming out in 2021 now's a better time than ever to dive into this game to get us started i'll mention that vtm bloodlines is unfortunately one of those games that suffered from quite a bit of bugginess when it released back in 2004 fortunately pretty much everything you could hope for is fixed by an unofficial patch that's easily found through a google search it's also worth noting that gog comes with the patch already baked into the game which is nice so hopping into a new game has you making quite a few choices that reflect just about what you would expect from a game that stems from a tabletop rpg you can jump right into a character sheet or you can answer some questions that will guide your character which i always enjoy doing in these types of games this has me answering some hard-hitting questions such as you were mugged last night it wasn't life-threatening but you want to take some measures to make sure that if it happens again you aren't defenseless do you sign up for a martial arts class next time they try it you'll break their spine start carrying a knife and conceal it in your belt next person who tries it breathes through a hole in their neck buy a gun the next mugger is sidewalk meat the questions are generally on the border of edgy i don't mind them i actually think they set the tone of the game pretty well with their mentioning of nightclubs art sales and overall urban kind of lifestyle it immediately separates the idea of this game existing in some kind of gothic medieval setting and lets you know you'll be participating in a relatively modern environment the results of my pop quiz has me being picked up by the toreador family which values charismatic and suave discussion over fisticuffs my issue personally is that i really want to be a suave vampire that can rip people limb from limb and the toreadors go hard in one direction but not the other i could start over and flip-flop to a more melee-oriented family but a little research shows that melee is not very useful when it comes to late game compared to using guns we'll get more to that later on though for now let me brush over the 7 different clans which are involved in this game we've got the toreadors which i ultimately decided to run with here they're known as the most social among human society and blend in perfectly as eccentric artsy types then there's the other family that i almost went with the bruja clan they're known as hot-headed rebellious types who given to their feelings and fight for their beliefs in a vampire utopia fiercely despite the possible repercussions then you've got the ventrue clan which is seen as the most regal and upper crust of vampire society their posh and pompous demeanor makes it so that they can't feed on low-life humans and animals without getting sick next we've got the counterparts of the brujas the gangrel clan these are a more nomadic tribe of vampires which care little for vampiric politics and would rather spend their days hunting in the outskirts of society the last of the more society-based clans is the tremor clan which care more about the pursuit of arcane knowledge than anything else and has harnessed blood magic to aid them in their activities the final two clans are a bit more unhinged from the rest the nosferatu tribe looks exactly as you'd expect and hide themselves from everyone else because of their hideous visage in the underground and finally the malkavians might be the most interesting in terms of how they function they're referred to as lunatics by all the other clans as they hear voices which guide them constantly through the world causing them to see pretty much everything differently from other clans of course there's a lot more to these families than the brief description that i just gave including upsides and downsides for every single one but i'll spare you the details on that what i will say is that i love the raw potential alone here i can't honestly sit here and pick out a single clan and go yeah but this one's just like this one except that it looks different i think all of them have their potential to stick out as their own thing and i can't wait to see how these clans interact with each other from here we have the nitty gritty character sheet stuff which encompasses your attributes abilities and disciplines i won't dive into every little feature here as i'd probably be sitting here talking about them for 10 minutes straight but the important overview to note here is that you've got your combat skills which reflect your ability to fight with your fists melee weapons or guns plus how much defense you have going for yourself you've got your covert skills which encompasses stuff like lock picking sneaking hacking etc you have mental skills which all influence the way that you interact with other characters throughout the game you have disciplines which are specific feats which change depending on which family you're a part of and you have something simply called soak which reflects how much damage resistance you have to various damage sources in the game for my guy i'm running a charismatic and persuasive vampire that has a decent amount of defense as well as some proficiency in researching and hacking as far as combat skills go i've got a point in melee for now i know i mentioned that melee falls off later but my line of thinking is that it's still probably going to be my best bet for the beginning of the game as far as my discipline goes i want the stat bonus from investing into aspects right now as it gives me a point in perception at level 2 and grants me a larger range of detecting living and unliving beings around me that said being able to move at a ridiculous speed with celerity is going to be my main focus eventually but the game tells me that using it in safe zones is forbidden i'll touch more on that in a bit another thing to note is the top right of the sheet where your humanity and these weird-looking masks are displayed humanity is basically the balancing act which you as a vampire undergo throughout your journey if you decide to kill an innocent your humanity is going to take a dip meaning that you're going to have a harder time not going into a frenzy state while you play the masks on the other hand are basically how many strikes you have as a vampire since most vampires are generally doing their best to blend in and exist alongside humans they've established what's known as the masquerade a set of rules for vampires to abide by whenever you violate one of these rules one of your masks goes away which opens you to attacks from vampire hunters in addition to your own kind beginning to despise you if you lose all five of your masks it's game over the final thing that i'll touch on in the stat sheet here is that a lot of these stats seem to riff off of each other if you're looking to increase your persuasion you can do that through either scholarship or charisma in tandem to this some skills can only be increased directly through a single method such as your lethal damage soak which can only be increased via getting better armor i overall enjoyed the sheer amount of directions that you can go with your character without even really launching the game i can already see the replay potential just from looking at this single block of stats and i'm excited to dive in and see what this whole thing's about okay yeah this um god where to start by today's standards this game looks like a parody now before you get riled up hear me out yes it's older and i'm not judging it harshly and calling it a piece of [ __ ] by any means there's just a lot of timing and audio cues which are a little rough around the edges in 2020 but again that's totally fine now as a precursor to the story here i'm gonna mention that i'm going to be spoiling the ever living [ __ ] out of this game if you want to go explore it for yourself i heavily encourage you to do so before continuing on so this whole thing starts off with you getting busy with a vampire who decides to give you the bad suck after the good suck this turns you into a vampire which brings these two goons flipping in and staking the [ __ ] out of you they grab you two and put you on the stage where i assume members from different families show up to bear witness to the judgment brought down upon you and the vampires who turned you well the lady gets the dragon slayer to her neck causing her death i don't know why she did it but it seems like she should have known better as the man referred to as the prince briefly explains the existence of the code of conduct which all vampires in this society must follow after this you're basically told to go learn about how the society functions fully and then return blood it's your new rack of lamb your new champagne watch your new [ __ ] heroin kid get ready though because hey it's never as sweet as the first time so yeah this fella walks you through your tutorial phase in which you feed on a human and are told exactly what you can do and are weak to the voice acting is surprisingly good out of old jack here which makes sense seeing as he's played by john dimaggio you're told that most of the anti-vampire tropes are just made up [ __ ] all except for being weak to sunlight and fire you can still be killed from weapons but a stake to the heart only paralyzes you which explains the opening cut scene well after this [ __ ] goes nuts as it's explained to you that a group known as the sabbat are raiding the place these guys are an unchained group of vampires who exist to cause carnage and wreak havoc old guts from before come strolling in and just obliterates a few of them with his big magic powers and you continue on your tutorial tour this involves explanations on hacking and lock picking which are both pretty straightforward though i will say that going through a computer has you interacting with it in the old school way in which you type in the different trees that you want to access via several different available commands if your skills are high enough you can either hack or lock pick your way into the safe for the key card out of here but if you lack the required proficiency in either you can scout around the room and find a piece of paper with a password on it as well which is pretty cool additionally any area that you're in is marked with three different potential symbols the first one notes that anything can go and that you can use your powers at will the second one notes that the masquerade is in full effect meaning that you can use your powers but you have to be careful not to get caught by humans and the last one means that using your powers and weapons are strictly forbidden all in all while the game seems pretty archaic at first glance i'm thoroughly enjoying the systems which are thrown at me so far in this tutorial from here it's elaborated on how exactly the health system works in relation to different damage sources if you take standard damage it'll heal over time pretty quickly if you take aggravated damage it's gonna take a lot longer to heal unless you guzzle some blood this brings us to the quality of blood a homeless dude's gonna have a lot worse blood quality than someone who takes care of themselves which affects how much benefit you receive from draining it you can also feed on animals like rats if you're in a pinch or have decided to roleplay as one of those vampires who hates what he is it's also worth noting here that if you're not careful and kill an innocent the whole humanity thing comes into play like i said the lower your humanity the more often you'll frenzy and frenzying can be pretty bad if you're in a place where losing control is considered taboo by the masquerade it's a pretty awesome system that i haven't seen anything like in any other game that i can think of so so far so good until sneaking rears its ugly head sneaking sucks in this game i like the concept it's a pretty standard system all things considered except that it takes that elder scrolls eyeball and expands on it by telling you when you're fine to move when you might be caught and when you'll definitely be caught if the enemy is looking at you plus you can see how close or far an enemy is from you and how exposed you are from the amount of light that all sounds pretty great but to me it seems like the system genuinely doesn't work i can be in bright light with the enemy staring right at me and be totally fine and i can be in complete darkness and have the enemy staring somewhere else and be caught with no in-between and of course the opposite can happen too ah they're gone it sucks because i enjoy a good stealth system but i think i'm gonna be passing on sinking any points into it in this game fortunately the combat is actually pretty decent for as old as this game is melee combat surprisingly involves different moves happening depending on which way you move your mouse and your character and i enjoy it way more than i thought i was going to the third person shift when initiating combat is a little weird but realistically is probably going to be the way to go when i find myself surrounded thankfully this shift doesn't occur when you're messing around with guns though there is no aiming down sights with most weapons which blows the rest of the tutorial walks you through your powers where you can use them and how they work i gotta say the thing that i'm most impressed with so far in this game though is the default settings for which buttons correspond to which action throughout the game you know how often i have to change my keyboard settings around in most modern games easily 85 of the time i would say this game's keyboard layout and i know this is all personal preference but it's [ __ ] perfect for the most part you know how often you get a crouch with the c button in pc games despite there being no lean or slide system it's a travesty and anyone who uses the c button to crouch in this kind of game is wrong work that pinky son anyways that's it for the tutorial when you're done you gain two whole experience which sounds like nothing you know back in world of warcraft when you were running around with like 600 000 health and all the numbers on the screen were ridiculous eventually they squashed down the numbers to something that didn't look so stupid and now world of warcraft is better than ever ah yep better than ever anyways vampire basically is the stat squish of rpg experience things don't cost 1000 xp minimum to purchase they cost like three and i like that i mean i can't buy anything yet but i like it so i get sent to my apartment which has a few different leads for me to follow on my laptop's email system penis enlargement watch the girls come running call today five 1-800-5555 the first lead is from a dude named mercurio who's on a quest for explosives for some reason the second lead is a riddle which is to guide me to the region of the traemere family's home if i can figure it out and the third lead is less of a lead and more of a veiled threat as it just reads the game begins a pawn is moved all right cool so two leads well this brings me over to the main street where our guy mercurio is crawling his dumb ass up into his fancy apartment when i catch up he tells me that the people he was going to get the explosives from beat the hell out of him so i agree to go get his explosives and deal with the problem this has me running around a beach before getting to this shack and annihilating all of these [ __ ] the interesting thing here is that i realized the amount of ways i could have approached this afterwards not only is there a way to get into the back of this thing there's also a breaker on the back side of the house to turn out all of the lights which is pretty cool anyways after grabbing the explosives i head back to the beach to chat with all of these other vampire looking types who are just hanging out they've apparently been told to stick around here and not show themselves anywhere else they seem to be the runts of the litter very weak vampires who have been bullied since they returned they all have no idea what exactly they are and how any of this works and have been sitting around here confused after being driven off repeatedly for being so-called thin bloods i offered to help one of them out by trying to find the girl who turned him and then scam another one by offering to sell him unicorn blood so he can turn back into a human i guess i'm chaotic neutral anyways the dialogue in this game is [ __ ] great so far i've ran into these lesser vampires which all have their own personalities and pretty good voice acting then there's this sonic the hedgehog dude who's apparently become a ghoul by drinking the blood of a vampire and is super stoked to just meet another vampire then you've got [ __ ] like this nobody told me to expect any technicians [Music] god damn dude i love it well after skulking around this hospital and plundering it for morphine for mercurio i eventually find this lady whose torso freaks me the [ __ ] out i feed her some of my blood which helps her out then i shuffle back to mercurio's place where he fills me in that the explosives i recovered are to be used for blowing a sabbat warehouse to [ __ ] additionally he explains to me that he's also a ghoul and that to get into the warehouse and back out alive i might want to go seek out the help of someone by the name of bertram tong unfortunately bert's lying low at the moment after getting into a feud with another one of the big players in town by the name of therese so i probably need to settle this spat before i proceed with the warehouse destruction the game does exploration very well every little place you stumble into seems to be a veritable bevy of information questing an intrigue the diner has you retrieving the personal belongings of the girl who turned the surfer dude on the beach into a vampire the bail bonds place has this chubster asking you to try to locate his bounty hunter the asylum nightclub has you running into this scuffed harley quinn who half seduces you before going upstairs and having a full-on cat fight with her sister i'm really enjoying every bit of it if i'm gonna be honest eventually i get to talk to harley's sister therese she describes mr tung as a nosferatu who's messed up a lucrative business deal for her and i can offer to either kill him for her or get her to call off the feud by drudging through these sewers to a haunted house and attempting to procure a ghost's personal belonging to try to exercise it from the property the latter sounds way more fun so off we go it's worth noting that i'm trying my best to hit as many quests as i can though i may miss a few just due to the sheer amount that there seems to be so far okay so you remember that bit at the beginning of the video where i'm like ah yeah the game's not really a horror game by the standards of other games yeah i [ __ ] up this hotel is awesome like really awesome so you get into this thing and stuff starts flying off the shelves at you whatever no big deal then you round a corner and this [ __ ] happens yeah okay we're gonna be playing this in third person now this quest is amazing you're never really in any danger from the ghost himself which i actually thought would be chasing me throughout this hotel but the whole thing is ridiculously creepy and well done when you're playing a game as a vampire and it can still manage to spook you it's doing something right little noises music and voices flood your ears things come whipping at you around corners the serial killer ghost tries to crush you with an elevator it's just really cool i absolutely love it when you get towards the end you find a diary detailing a family staying at this hotel for a few days in the 1950s at first everything is great but the husband keeps asking the wife about her new amulet which she received from her mother he keeps badgering her about it claiming to have gotten it from a man eventually the guy starts to go mad with jealousy and the only time he seems happy is when he's talking to the groundskeeper about his tools well eventually the dude winds up killing the kids and coming after the wife who's frantically writing in the journal at the time [ __ ] is [ __ ] up don't let your insecurities turn you into a murderous psychopath fellas just become one without the insecurities instead wait no after grabbing the amulet i scoot out of the hotel at a moderately panicked pace i've never been so happy to see sewers actually the sewers in this game are a pretty well done shortcut system which help you travel from one side of the map to the other relatively quickly which was a nice surprise though that said getting to where i need to go above the sewers isn't that bad either as there are several ways around the buildings anyways i go to report back to therese only for her sister to try to guilt me into leaving the ghost amulet with her i tell her no but instead promised to stop an art gallery gathering by slashing all the paintings in it the reason for this is the gallery premiere being a front for a rogue vampire who's trying to establish their own group by turning all of the patrons involved in it into vampires at least that's what i'm told when i show up there's no one in the gallery instead i'm to hit these paintings in a particular order which summons a boss in the form of this blood creature the fight is kind of rough since i haven't quite gotten down the combat yet but i managed to take it down i'll spare you the details for a bit but this game has a lot more side quests than i thought it would going in i deal with an asian vampire who's trying to move in on the territory here i confiscate some werewolf blood from the hospital to prevent normal humans from figuring out that there's something supernatural afoot i freed the vampire girl from the blood bank who turned the beach bomb into a vampire and i continued to try to track down the bale guys bounty hunter and wind up in this crazy bastard's prosthetic shop this last one in particular is amazing like i said before anytime a game can make me feel creeped out while i'm the vampire is a good time additionally freeing lily from the blood bank was quite fun as the crazy person who sells you blood from the front counter reveals that they were using lily as the source and that they won't sell you anymore unless you pay them for the damages or bring them a new victim i did have the option to persuade my way out also but they wanted to hear about the time i murdered someone innocent and i haven't done that yet apparently so i go to the club and find them a new sacrifice which they promptly drain dry and offer to sell me their blood [ __ ] gruesome anyways once i get through with side questing i report back to jeanette only for her sister to wait this is familiar yeah the paintings i slashed here were actually teresa's and she's pissed fortunately my high persuasion gets me out of this jam and she sends me to go reconcile with her sister at the diner except that her sister isn't there it's just these dudes who start opening fire on me i take them out and then answer the phone at the end of the diner only for therese to apologize and state that her sister sent those thugs here to kill me because i took teresa's side except then i hear her sister pleading for her life on the other end of the line so i have no clue who to believe here the writing here is pretty damn good i have to admit like i had no idea what to expect and yet my expectations are still being blown out by this game well uh i don't know if i'm stupid or what but i didn't predict this one at all the only other split personality character i can think of off the top of my head is dog and god in new vegas and you knew about that split immediately the fact that they planned this out as the final reveal is perfect because before this the other sister was just always away and i kind of just chalk that up to quest design everything makes way more sense now and i absolutely love this twist well if your persuasion is high enough you can convince these two personalities to settle their differences and work together if not you can choose which one dies the little threads of story the two spout out about their double life really paints a picture from their father forcing himself on them to them killing him over it to how they handle their business super well while also [ __ ] around with whoever in their off time i imagine this whole thing is a coping mechanism for this woman and she switches off to whatever personality would better suit her for the situation she finds herself in it's awesome and the end result has tourette telling me where tongue is finally after all the [ __ ] that i just went through it's actually kind of weird talking to tongue and him going alright so you're the new kid on the block cool so you're gonna go blow up a warehouse like nothing i did with tourette mattered to him but whatever it is what it is i think the funniest bit is that not only was this dude just right here the whole time but he also has a computer in this weird busted out shell of metal no idea how that thing's hooked up but alright anyways he lets me know that the sabbat have been moving supplies through this warehouse but that the place is primarily manned by humans who worked for the sabbat while knowing that they're vampires because of this i am free to slaughter these humans since it's technically a way for me to uphold the masquerade as tongue puts it so i head to this joint kill all these humans plant the explosives and zip out it's actually a lot harder than i thought it was going to be and i almost die a few times but i managed to pull through before meeting a werewolf who asks me some questions ozzy hears a vampire historian of sorts as bertram tells me afterwards he asked me about any unusual happenings which i mean this whole game is [ __ ] unusual but i tell him because i trust anyone apparently he then lets me know that i will likely be hunted by the sabbat from now on and that there's something about los angeles and the surrounding area that's out of the ordinary something in the air apparently that just sounds like la to me anyways we part ways and i returned to bert who tells me that this dude from earlier oh that was great and i saw your teeth and i was like damn it was like i could just sense you the name's max harrington pleasure to meet you oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man wait oh man oh man oh man was actually pretending to be a clueless idiot to manipulate me into doing things in tongues interests that one actually surprised me the guy is one hell of an actor but beyond this tidbit bertram fills you in on his takes concerning the other clans and sex it's all pretty interesting stuff but i pretty much covered all of it earlier in the video so let's carry on it's finally time to hop into a taxi and head to a new area downtown well apparently a sabbat agent chose the absolute perfect spot to wait and ambush for me as he sneaks up on me like a [ __ ] cartoon character with his baseball bat yeah the game more than shows its age with this scene as these idiots cackle over me and start threatening to kill me in all sorts of ways i think we could all use a little entertainment those of you sitting in the first few rows will get wet lame as you may have guessed my character doesn't just die and the credits start rolling nah this dude who i saw in the courthouse at the start of the game rolls up and threatens all of them with a hand grenade which works for some reason wouldn't you just grab your hostage and use them as a shield either way this whole thing is supposed to be this badass cutscene but it's not oh well nines here tells me to stop being stupid and to watch out for roving bat wielders in the future i tell him yeah alright and now we're downtown at last downtown is [ __ ] cool looking yeah of course it's still an older game but santa monica was this grimy rundown rainy ass [ __ ] and downtown is a much larger sprawling and cool to look at shell the first thing i do is just go wandering into whatever building i can first as is tradition which just so happens to be the main objective i have right now officer chunk here stands uh sits front and center of this pretty neat looking interior before he lets me know that i can head on up to the fella who saved me from decapitation the ventrue prince sebastian lecroy lecroy fills me in about a ship called the dane which was apparently found with no crew aboard it the ship was apparently hauling a type of sarcophagus which may be the source of uneasiness in the air that a lot of vampires are feeling i'm too head aboard confiscate any information about the sarcophagus take a look at the thing but don't open it and don't hurt any of the police on the ship i can promise two of those things but i'm gonna have a hard time not opening the thing i was told not to open interestingly enough lacroix also tells me that he used to serve under napoleon which is a nice touch let's see what we got on good old camera three oh well hello there i've been thinking about you oh yeah i to lick you all over then make my way down to your creamy center and what get your hands off my bavarian cream all right let's keep heading down the street the lady's coming oh god but you can call me fat larry with a f-a-t cause i know i got a weight problem i just don't give a [ __ ] i love fat larry how is this guy not in smash ultimate yet sakurai [Music] yo i need a hardcore massively bionic two-fisted yo jimbo for a super-sized skull yeah fat larry here is seemingly my vendor for this area and he also has a little side quest for me as well it's not a huge deal though it is quite long if you sneak through all the vents like i did i enjoyed this for the first 10 minutes or so but man this parking garage did not need to be four floors deep oh well when i get back my guy larry lets me know that he knows someone that could also use my services at a place simply called confession so i'm off to check that out well confession is this it's really cool i love the look it's basically a cathedral turned into a nightclub slash bar which is awesome this necklace big titty goth girlfriend wants me to go tell some russian mobsters that she's broke and then run away ah chicken cheese pizza yeah right sure well here comes the biggest hero in this game my persuasion skill i report back to venus here who offers to make me a partner in her club if i kill a high up russian mobster named boris so apparently this chick took out a huge loan from these russians to start her club and now is having issues treading water and making payments every time she misses a payment she has to [ __ ] boris to make up for it so she wants me to kill him this makes no sense i imagine the debt doesn't just go away with the russian mob and she was the one that took the [ __ ] loan i don't get that so i go up to this dude and i have a couple of options i can kill him i can convince him to drop her debt if my presence is high enough which it isn't or i can turn on her and kill her instead what i don't get is that if i kill her i lose humanity but if i kill boris i don't this is just one of those biased decisions from the devs where it's like yeah she's the good one here the russians are just bad but like she took the loan they didn't force her to she knew what she was getting into i mean i'm not saying that russian mobsters are good but i just don't see how i would lose humanity over turning on the person who wanted to resort to killing in the first place oh well i kill the guy in his guards and then head over to venus who lets me know that i can drop by occasionally for a cut of the money from the club then i go to tell her yeah so i i have some ideas to improve the club and she's like yeah well whatever i got [ __ ] to do apparently i'm a partner in name only anyways more little parts of various side quests occur but nothing i really want to get into detail about yet what i do want to expand more on is that i finally figure out the riddle i received on my email at the beginning of the game and wind up in this twisty turny mansion type thing which eventually leads me to come into contact with the guy who sent the email he explains that this is a place for the traemere clan and that i can't learn their secrets since i don't share their blood the word on everyone's lips kindred or kind seems to be epidemic ah [ __ ] not again i like strauss he seems pretty careful and introspective and feels as though the prince is neither of those claiming that the prince wants power more than he wants to see the camarilla succeed oh right yeah i never explained the camarilla so you've got your three groups there's the camarilla who basically enforce the masquerade and ensure that vampire existence is safely concealed then there's the anarchs who believe in the idea that vampires should be free to do what they want and then there's the sabbat which you know about anyway strauss wants me to look into this plague that seems to be spreading among the downtown la population which has me wandering over to the bar which bender from the start of the game is supposed to be at you are my goddamn problem yeah this chick is pissed off i don't like her at all but she does raise a point no matter what the camarilla considers all vampires part of their organization so if an anarch breaks a rule the camarilla punished them despite them considering themselves to not be part of the organization it's an interesting balance on one hand i agree with her but on the other hand the south lost the civil war so anyways she starts going on about something called a plague bearer which has caused the outbreak to occur basically a vampire can't get sick but they can carry diseases and if they start feeding rampantly on any and all humans they come across the disease spreads like wildfire so i sign on to kill this plague bearer before things get any worse before that though i get some real answers out of jack at the top of this bar he basically paints a better picture about this whole anarchs vs camarilla feud and tells me what exactly is up with lecroy basically lacroix isn't the top dog he isn't even part of the inner circle of the camarilla he is trying to get there though by controlling the anarch population and convincing them to fully sign on with the camarilla apparently this fight between the two factions has been going on forever now and the only reason i'm alive is because nine stuck up for me at the beginning of the game and lacroix figured that letting me go free would make the camarilla look better to any lingering doubters if that's true and i'm sure it is i'd say that i'll be siding with the anarchs when it comes down to it i'll come back to nines later i gotta blast this plague person first yeah apparently this crazy [ __ ] is part of a cult of plague bearers who view their disease as a gift upon humanity which means that i gotta track down two more of them and put them out of their misery this is definitely the only quest so far that i've disliked in this game it's an okay concept and the bosses are unique and interesting to talk to before you fight them but the slog to and from them really sucks the sewers boss hits like a truck but fights up close so i can shoot him from afar unfortunately the water in this game is graphically pretty glitchy making it hard to get a beat on the enemy and then the trek to the last guy is awful and just filled with these fodder zombies which don't hurt me but they do annoy me as they block my path the boss fight itself is the reason why i went with ranged weapons for the mid to late game when i tried to run up to this dude he gives me the old texas special and blasphemy into oblivion not to mention he's fast as [ __ ] so he just puts distance between us whenever i try to get up to him this makes for a very long and tedious shootout which makes my shots feel more like luck than skill by the time i'm done with him i'm pretty much completely out of ammo fat larry is gonna be eating good tonight when i'm done depositing my bankroll into his pockets at any rate i roll back up to these guys and turn in my quests pick up another couple and bust them out nothing particularly interesting but nothing too bad either i do get an option to ask to join the anarchs but i'm not quite ready for that yet not only are the anarchs probably the edgiest boys in the game i got their meeting right here why are we still here just to suffer but i want to play both sides for a bit if i can i do like the idea of replaying this game as a very pompous and arrogant camarilla endorser though just to see how the anarchs react anyways let's get this show on the road and hit up that ship with the sarcophagus finally i head on to the ship and talk to the cop that's waiting on the side where i come up he thinks i'm a reporter who's bribing him to let me on board so i play along i sneak into the security area check out the cameras take the reports and that's it man i had this thing built up in my head as some kind of grand heist so i decide to try to sneak past all the cops anyways and get to the sarcophagus and i can't open it well god damn what was the point of dangling the forbidden fruit in front of me if it's not ripe yet oh well i reload my safety save and get the hell out when i return the redhead i saved at the hospital from before ambushes me at the steps of lacroix's hotel manor thing she wants to dedicate herself to me since i saved her ass and gives me some random silver ring that she found so i tell her she can go back to my place i guess then i go up and talk to lacroix who just got out of a meeting with the heads of all the other clans who are loyal or somewhat loyal to the camarella apparently their concern is that the malkavian leader has gone missing or just isn't answering anymore like i mentioned before the malkavians are usually batshit crazy so this sounds like a fun setup i'm to go to this grout guy's home in the next area and get to the bottom of his disappearance that's like slang for something like catcher or some fetish term right not like a vampire this place is a [ __ ] mad house like literally grout's mansion seems to have been turned into some kind of insane asylum of sorts by his own hand there are various recordings all around the place of him rambling on about psychology perception of time the condition of the mind and the value which he feels that an insane asylum brings as a sort of experimentation grounds i'm honestly not versed enough in psychology to come up with anything like this so i have to tip my hat to the writers here this place is excellent there's all of these roving insane people who lunge at me and have been freaking out and performing all sort of unhinged activities there are little mind puzzles which litter the mansion for you to solve in order to progress and along the way are these recordings from grout who muses on about how he was turned into a vampire while he himself was at an insane asylum which explains how he became a malkavian i will note that for some reason nines pops out of the mansion right when you get there and tells you that you should leave this place though after seeing all this i imagine this was some kind of trick of the mind or something what are you doing here no no as you press on grout humorously notes that the vampires seem to be obsessed with age-old tales of gothic imagery and the like and explains that their focus should instead be on understanding the science behind their condition at this stage grout actually sounds pretty sane actually if it made any sense i would say that the dude is overly sane but then you start getting to the recordings of his malkavian blood slowly awakening and at first he seems to handle it pretty well he notes what the voices in his head tells him and then acts accordingly discerning which vampires have hidden agendas and which ones he can trust more eventually he meets a certain vampire in the circle which puts the fear of god in him as the voices in his head begin to tell him to be very afraid of him if i were to wager a guess i'd imagine this would be lacroix but grout doesn't confirm it for fear of leaving recorded evidence behind well at the end of this crazy ass mansion we find grout's wife encased in a glass tube what i hadn't mentioned before was that grout had been working to try to find a cure for his wife for pretty much the entirety of this recorded saga he was working on it as a human and then as a vampire but i definitely didn't expect this it gets better and better though as i rotate her frozen body around to unlock the final chamber grout's bedroom yeah he's [ __ ] dead dude was tied to the bed and staked in the heart then god knows what else was done to him but before i can investigate it all an explosion outside occurs revealing a vampire hunter who swears to wipe all vampires off the earth when i explain that he already killed the main guy here he seems surprised about it and laments not being able to kill grout himself so that rules him out as the killer the hunter also mentions lacroix as being a fiend who must be put down before he leaves me to burn in the mansion well spoiler i don't burn in the mansion anyways the plot really starts to thicken after i escape and we make it back to lc when i tell him that groud is dead he genuinely seems surprised of course he could be a really good actor but at this stage i honestly believe him the way that i see it if i were writing something like this i'd want the player to think that it's lacroix the big thing here is that nines was seen leaving the scene of the crime but he was also acting strange i'm guessing this work has to be from someone that i've met already who has ulterior motives though a reason to wage war on the anarchs might suit lecroy also he certainly doesn't seem like he's ready for that but it could be a cover-up because i honestly don't know who i've met that seems to harbor that much animosity towards the other faction i mean maybe the chick that's always ready to fight me when i come into the last round i guess it would give the camarilla enough ammo to wage war against the anarchs with the hopes that the anarchs would prevail but if i were to choose someone that the player knows who seems genuinely lovable yet mysterious to a degree i'd pick either becket or jack i doubt it but hey i guess we'll see anyways i'm told that the sarcophagus has been moved to the museum here in town and i'm now tasked with retrieving it while lacroix tries to figure out this grout business no idea how i'm going to lug this thing out but all right also i'm told to not open it again i'm gonna do it if i can i swear something else to note is the fact that lacroix recognizes the vampire hunter who set the mansion ablaze claiming that this bach guy's family has been hunting him in his kind for a long ass time i don't think she's saying puppy this museum is a gigantic stealth mission we're talking patrolling guards cameras the whole nine yards this is where the game's stealth system tries its best to shine but as i mentioned before the stealth is kind of busted though fortunately not in the really bad way at the beginning in the tutorial i kept getting caught by this dude no matter what now i can slip by just about any guard with my lowly level 2 sneak to make up for this mechanic the cameras play a big role it took me a while to figure out what i wanted to do with the cameras because they kept busting me as i tried to sneak to a safe place which i thought that they couldn't look at the thing is though i can just run and get underneath them before they finish rotating as much grief as i've given the system i have to admit that this does get pretty intense as i creep my way around these museum walls to try to find the key to the sarcophagus room and then try to locate said room i also nabbed this fetish which a spooky broad from the hospital that i never talked about wanted me to grab eventually i managed to sneak into the warehouse room where the sarcophagus is supposed to be except it's already been stolen apparently again i'm struggling to figure out how someone would be able to slip out with a heavy stone coffin but apparently that happened somehow no opening the sarcophagus today fellas beckett's already at the scene of the crime as he tells you that he wanted to examine the thing before it got moved he tells me a little more about the history he's been studying about how some vampires believed that ancient beings called the antediluvians were the founders of the clans which are present today and that it's speculated that the body which is in the sarcophagus is one of them beckett himself doesn't seem to buy that but is open to the possibility if evidence were to present itself when i return to the prince it seems he's made up his mind to have nines hunted down and killed due to his perceived interference in the grout case he makes a pretty big drama about the whole ordeal lamenting the burdens of leadership and all that well his mood only worsens when i tell him that the sarcophagus was stolen gary gary's the nosferatu primogen which is a word that i've been avoiding saying before but now have heard it enough to actually say it the primogens are the clan leaders that i mentioned before and gary is the nosferatu one yep i do like the differences between the names in this game you have [ __ ] like lecroy mercurio alastair and pisha then you've got [ __ ] gary the sewer monster over here alongside jack heather and fat larry anyways it's off to locate big g in hollywood hollywood is um it's like advanced santa monica like someone looked at santa monica and said yeah but what if we put like strip clubs and more sleazy motels and this iron giant building and hookers everywhere cool well in my story it's not like about garlic and bats okay it's about vampire societies and stuff you know like what would vampires be really all about i mean how do they blend into society without being discovered so yeah new area new side quests i'll try to highlight some of the more interesting ones as always my work is done [Music] yeah that should be fine nothing interesting so far unfortunately the side questing's gonna have to wait though seeing as the so-called baron of this area sends his goon to insist that i pay him a visit before doing anything more so i pop by and this guy tells me that he wants me to do him a favor to ensure that i'm um i don't know kosher or whatever this favor seems simple but i'm sure that it isn't i'm to head to a local internet cafe log in with some info and then figure out where to pick up a delivery as i head back out this lady comes running up to me and tells me that she and everyone else have been worried sick about me when i ask her who she is she insists that i have amnesia and that she's going to go call for help what the hell man i swear the devs are just like yeah but what if this happens and it's done perfectly fine let's go see who shows up when she makes this call maybe we could check him into a hospital or get the police involved oh never mind are you [ __ ] kidding me oh well i reload and pick the correct persuade option to convince her that i'm not who she's thinking of that is actually something i haven't noted before because i just assumed that once you persuaded someone that whatever you chose next will work in some form or another but the reality is that you get a set of options because of the persuasion check and you still have to choose correctly after that i wasn't sure about how to feel about this but after thinking about it some more i'm actually not opposed to it with more obviously wrong answers you get the opportunity to back out of your check if you change your mind but with tougher situations you could choose wrong by accident it's certainly a unique system and the more that i think about it the more refreshing it is to me rather than just pass or fail so i go to meet this dude in the back alley after checking the computer and he's scared out of his mind he tells me that the tape i'm to be retrieving is the sickest [ __ ] that he's ever seen in his life and that he hid the film away at a place that he refers to as ginger swans then he runs around the corner and gets eaten by a sewer monster poor guy so yeah i think i'm back on track for some side questing because i don't know what a ginger swan is but it sounds like a redhead stripper so i hit up the first club that i see vesuvius no sign of ginger but i do find this lady who gets me to follow her upstairs come up to my room just 14 little steps i'll make it worth it believe me [Music] [Applause] oh boy fake lava how did you know yeah the funniest part about this is the fact that my guy has absolutely no sexual drive anymore because vampires can't reproduce over half of the answers i can give to this lady are the most in-cell begone thought responses i've seen in the game but i guess i'm playing it cool and sounding real interested in this stripper vampire but realistically that's the issue here the vampire who recognizes me as a vampire is still putting on her best sultry and seductive act despite knowing full well that i biologically have no interest in her even in a recreational manner it's just i don't know it's kind of weird writing i guess i suppose vampires have nearly always been mired in a sexual ambiance in many different media forms but that usually seems to be when a human who a vampire is interested in feeding on or turning is seduced it makes more sense then because the vampire is using that base instinct to lure the human in but when it's vampire on vampire action it just doesn't fit here as well as her being more direct with her requests anyways she wants me to track down and kill a vampire hunter who has been eyeballing the joint and the vampires around here the hunter in question works at a smut shop called the [ __ ] sin bin we got everything you'll ever need software hardcore gay straight farm or furry we got shocker shivers self lubricators and strap-ons chains crops and canes are in the back next to the triple ripples at any rate i get the customers out of here deal with this lady who kill bills a katana out of her [ __ ] and then run back to velvet who tells me that the dude from earlier who's writing that movie about the vampires needs to be taken care of it was about secret societies and creatures that found themselves dealing with inner beasts and persecution by elder monsters every single one of these answers is amazing in their own way but yeah she cares deeply about the guy and doesn't want me to kill him she does however want me to get his screenplay and destroy it in addition to figuring out which kindred has been feeding him all of this info and killing that guy instead the man is in the bed you have the grapefruit already prepared under the bed he smelled the citrus in the air getting the screenplay is easy but the dude's vampire partner is under the docks in santa monica meaning that i finally get to pick up the shotgun that i pre-ordered from mercurio and also figure out who's been killing people by ripping them to shreds in a very obvious way oh yeah i never mentioned that there's been a serial killer this whole time and i've been tracking him the whole game now you know when i get to where he's at he just starts throwing cars at me allowing me to have more fun with this game's absolutely atrocious physics system i swear to god the amount of times i've gotten stuck on things in this game is staggering this time i had to crouch hop over this car because the dude trapped me in here finally my 600 hours in counter-strike source pays off the cool part about all of this is the guy didn't actually just go nuts and kill for fun he was actually slaying a bunch of murderers who killed his family i feel for him on that and let him go while talking him down from the idea of giving in to the beast further and justifying more killing when he stated that he's going to murder more criminals a satisfying little twist to be sure though i am a bit sad that i didn't get to test out my shotgun anyways the informant for the wannabe writer is a ghoul who but please i don't know jesus [ __ ] christ i've never felt more awful about a decision after trying it out both ways i ultimately decide to let him go but jesus man that is rough i mean if i had gotten like too experienced for killing him instead of one at any rate i return tear up the script get some money roll to the next club help this edgelord vampire escape vampire hunters just filler stuff basically so anyways the tape after asking the baron from before he lets me know that ginger swan was an actress who died a long ass time ago and that her body is in the cemetery nearby meryl meryl merrell so i head over and run into this crazy bastard who apparently has been hired to stop the zombies who rise at night from escaping the cemetery he loves his job but he also wants beer been there done that so he asks me to guard the graveyard for five minutes while he goes on a beer run i do so and it's kind of challenging at least it seems to be the zombies only really go down from headshots at least easily fortunately he gives me this rifle to use which has a nifty aim down sights button which makes me feel like i have scoliosis while i am i switch off to my semi-auto pistol instead and keep pumping my solarity button to give me extra time while i chug from one end of the map to the other to try to keep the zombies from escaping it gets ridiculous by the end so i'm unsure of how hard it actually is but i did manage to pull it off in the first try when the dude comes back he lets me keep the rifle and i mosey on over to the mausoleum here which has the tape stashed away no ghosts or nothing but it's all good i run it back to the good baron who wants me to watch the thing 2004 wasn't particularly stunning with its dismemberment technology so it's nothing too over the top but these little gremlins basically chase this girl all over the house until she finally gets at then my man goes yeah so um the nosferatu stopped talking to me right around the time this film started circulating so it's probably them go check the porn store for the rest of the tape dude righteous so i ask around and find out that these snuff films are being made in the back of the internet cafe which i get the key to when i show up to the film set everyone is dead and these [ __ ] two-legged monsters are just roaming the place they're fast they jump high and they spook the hell out of me as stupid as they look at a glance they're incredibly unnerving to deal with fortunately celerity 3 pays off for me here but good god after crawling around i find one survivor who tells me that these guys don't make this stuff they just copy the tapes that are sent to them from some mansion or another then i grab the completed tape and get the hell out when i make it back we watch the full tape with the same ending but this time the baron here recognizes the house that the film was shot in and dispatches me to go rate it he also comes to the conclusion that the entity which unleashed these creatures must be blocking off the nosferatu from escaping the sewers to communicate with anyone else then the baron casually tells me that there's a gargoyle across the way and that he wants me to go kill it or convince it to stop attacking other vampires the thing absolutely loathes vampires seemingly blaming them for its existence and for how much they constantly manipulate others so i manipulate him into joining the barons side what's interesting to me is how much he hates the traemere flavor of vampire in particular which makes me think that they probably had something to do with his creation seeing as they're all about magic i do like that this gargoyle seems to be modeled after a statue of the asian theater here rather than the typical nosferatu-esque ones that you normally see in other media all right let's go [ __ ] [ __ ] up i blast him from the top of the mansion and work my way down until i find the fiend in question this thing i have no idea what this is but it talks very well apparently he's been crafting these little goblins out of any stragglers of society that he can including vampires of course and the entire reason he's doing it is to spite the camarilla at this stage i'm thinking well maybe he can work with the anarchs but then he goes on to state that he's affiliated with the sabbat this is a pretty minor gripe as a lot of the story would probably have to be reworked for this route but i really did think that there would be an option to join this guy i know it would mean turning your back on both the camarilla and the anarchs but it would make for a great evil play through anyways you want to see what this boss fight looks like with celery 3 yep i'm thinking this ability might be a little overpowered and i've still got two points to sink into it so now we get to the absolute worst part of this game so far these warrens oh my god man not only are there about 12 million of these mike wazowski looking [ __ ] but i probably spent a solid 20 minutes trying to figure out the pump system to get into the next area this whole level design is just god-awful i mean i know it's kind of intentional but christ and it just keeps going as soon as you get done with one set of warrants it leads into two and then three and then four there is such a thing as too much when it comes to this kind of stuff like the entire precipice of this place is let's make a lot of undercity type area for the player to crawl through and just pack it with these little monsters that we've created eventually i run into this boss thing which is menacing looking and actually pretty damn cool it throws bodies at me from range and then tries to close in and melee me making me much happier about going ranged in this game alright so that's it right nah next part of the warrens oh hey it's that boss again oh look another boss oh another boss [ __ ] this like seriously yeah they're not tough to take down but what were the devs thinking all right uh mike went crazy and made the layout for all this warren's area what do we do pack it with enemies well yes of course but maybe a boss yeah that's great and all but mike actually made even more warns over the weekend ah [ __ ] well i guess just make that boss a normal enemy too [ __ ] it it'll have a health bar for the first fight but then it's just whatever after that well i make it to the end of this area maybe but guess what i missed a turn in albuquerque and the [ __ ] ending bit here needs a key card to progress so i have to go all the way back to the start of this section to go to the correct direction in a place that looks the same no matter where you go witness this nosferatu trying to fight these fat [ __ ] then pick up the key and go back and hey you remember that mini boss i skipped the warrens are a blight on this game i mean it doesn't even feel like the same dev team made this part like i get it you want the game to get difficult to have a section of the map that feels pretty accurate to a sprawling nightmare of tunnels and pipes you want it to feel like you're really putting in the work to make it to the end but good god where's the creativity you've taken all of these expected tropes in this game and turned them on their heads every time i mean i could think of maybe a handful of quests thus far that weren't very intriguing or didn't bring anything uniquely interesting to the table and then these warrens come strolling in to go hey guys how about an epic saga of bland sewer levels to really get you in the mood don't worry we've designed three entire enemies for the area and spammed them throughout it to make sure that you won't get bored what's that you were hoping for something more interesting play the rest of the game then idiots well guess what it was all worth it because at the end when i use the key card the ground opens up and a [ __ ] nuclear rocket comes up and launches somewhere towards nevada nah i'm kidding you make it to the nosferatu lair my enthusiasm after all of that might be the lowest it's been for this game navigating through this [ __ ] has me running into a nerdy ass hacker who wants me to help him with his security system upgrades a lady who used to be a hot model by her own words and is now bent on taking out her frustrations on the current hottest model and the man who lacroix sent me on this endeavor to find gary the camera walks up pretty hard here every time i get into a conversation it might have something to do with the settings cramped nature but gary hates me for being one of the pretty ones and insists that i go to chinatown to get one of his men back before he'll tell me where he sold the sarcophagus to as my character notes it seems like every single person wants me to do something else for them before they'll do anything for the prince though i actually don't mind that seeing as it ties these areas of the map together and i would have tried to do all the quests anyways gary's a spiteful prick of a vampire though who seems to thrive on ruining other people's lives i want to stick your lovely face in a piranha tank i want to apply an acid glaze to your sculptured body i want to throw your pocket mirror under a thresher and watch you fetch it but i'm no butcher boss it does make me wonder how he would have reacted to a fellow nosferatu coming down here though of course these guys seem to have had a back exit safe from all of the [ __ ] i had to drudge through to get to this garbage pile so yippee at this point i can proceed onward to chinatown to move the plot along but i have a lot of side quests to do with the nose layer unlocked checking my email yields even more quests so i'm knocking them out now unfortunately the game seems like it may be running its course as far as side quests go i've enjoyed most of them like i've mentioned before but now so many of them are bogged down with incessant back and forth blundering that they don't even seem worth it i'm not even going to go into most of them but i can tell you that the most heinous offender is the one for this poindexter [ __ ] who wants me to set up all of his security network stuff the quest literally has me going through every single area in the game to sneak in and set up various things before leaving the actual sneaking around itself is somewhat fun to a degree but every single time the computer that you hack into receives a message telling you to go back home in the downtown area to figure out where the next place is it doesn't help that the taxi is nearly the furthest it can be from your safe haven and that you have to wait every single time you want to go up and down the elevator it's a nice touch that the elevator actually goes through the floors like a real one does but when you have to do it several times back to back to back it really starts to wear on you and that's just it so much of this could have been easily remedied with an old ass pda or cell phone or just being able to access your email from any computer anywhere or letting you answer a pay phone to get into contact with whoever is calling you for a quest you just did it's just a lot of grind and piling onto its stuff like the sewers being the only way into one of these buildings or the shitty physics which caused you to get stuck on everything and it's just a major damper on the game anyways after running chores for everyone i can i make it to chinatown upon entering the temple which i'm supposed to get answers from i meet this chinese lady who of course has the same high english accent that most vampires in this game have she's a form of eastern vampire known as the queijin which sound almost exactly like normal vampires but more spiritual i guess anyways she's this area's leader and suggests that i check him with one of her subordinates for the location of the missing nosferatu guy well we're running out of material here as the associate needs me to get back his missing daughter first of course so i light up this place save the ungrateful chick and i do not think i could find him for you but god [ __ ] damn it this is like a world of warcraft quest i will say that the guy tells me he was working hard to stop all of the violence that was happening here in chinatown and nearly succeeded until the queijin boss here came rolling into town and conveniently the criminals started to get more money to afford more weapons drugs and staff now everything's worse than before when he started to clean things up awfully convenient but the guy won't hear me besmirch his boss's name as he holds her in the highest regard hey andrea what no he's not no he's not no he is not hold on andrea i got another call hey serena did you hear about joe and yes he is yes he is yes he is i know i was just on the phone with andrea and i was all no he's not yes he is [ __ ] all right let's finish off the last batch of side quests in the game which take place here in chinatown first off i speak with a girl who has a big ass sword and a weird mechanical arm she's anime as [ __ ] and is looking for a demon who killed her master nani well in typical anime fashion our guy is a big [ __ ] shark monster and the ensuing battle has this girl's skirt flying up over and over neato [Music] after this i head across the street and talk to the old man inside who wants me to gouge out the eyes of some dude's body for his collection pretty average request in this game now where did i see a noodle shop ah right and back to the old guy now he wants me to plant a bad luck talisman in some dude's locker which doesn't take long after that i head one block over and talks to this old [ __ ] who explains that he used to be a hitman who had a partner the two pulled off a big job and put all of their earnings into a box each with their own key to the box they both have to use the keys at the same time to open it but this led to distrust brewing between the two eventually they stopped talking to each other and now both want the other dead i can convince them to work out their differences for a mortal kombat friendship ending or i can do this [ __ ] hey faker big faker he lie he no pay you get his key for lufang lufang pay you 20 you see i give you 30 you take care of lou i give you more money god hate lou you think g1 jack can afford to pay 30 percent he need money for child bait got to buy the comic book in the video game i give you 40 40 lou evil man when he was hit man he killed women children pets i give you 50 he pay you in dagger make direct deposits to you in the back i give you sixty percent he wants kill puppy because he bark all night and keep him up you want me to trust puppy murderer i want to use money for orphans i give you 70. 80 percent lou fang offer you i give you 80 same as lou but lou he deserved to die please read the earth of big drunken evil while this quest is hilarious and i really do like it the loading screens back and forth over and over kind of sucks to deal with i know that's kind of a dumb thing to complain about with an older game but it really does bog the whole quest down at least chinatown is very small hell i think it's in contention with santa monica the first area in the game for the smallest map anyways let's get back into the meat of this game so let me break this down for you i need to find the location of the sarcophagus in order to do that i needed to figure out how to get into the nosferatu den then i needed to find the main guy in charge who wants me to find his guy in order to do that i had to rescue a guy's daughter then go confront a guy named johnny who runs this club i'll give you a guess as to what happened come to the full syndicate building yeah right okay yep gotcha well this guy who has our boy at the syndicate decides to put me through a bunch of tests to try to figure out what vampires are weak to and how to exploit that weakness these tests include hosing me down with co2 shining me with big flashlights making me crawl through laser trip wires and seeking blades electricity armed humans and fire on me all of it is pretty straightforward and kind of fun actually i enjoy the idea of slowly getting closer to this egghead before wreaking havoc and gunning him down when he does go down i grab the key to free the nosferatu and we hack some computers well he hacks the computers i never put too many points into that then we escape and i get a phone call from gary who tells me that the giovanni family and italian mob of occult collectors have the sarcophagus finally at least this last quest was actually back to being really interesting and fun so the giovanni mansion giovanni oh yeah here's the place i haven't met you before you family member of him or family she'll be fine after i get a pot of coffee in her that woman has the self-control of a pubescent chimpanzee come on maria we're going home yeah this is gonna be fun you know a quest is good when a chick throws up blood and the husband goes ah you [ __ ] embarrassment so i head in with my newly acquired invitation and mingle with the guests this has me choosing one of three potential people to receive the so-called kiss of vampirism and has me lying my ass off to get them to trust me you got a guy who's not actually related to the family the way that the family thinks that he is you got a guy who's completely broke despite seeming like he has heaps of money and you've got a girl who shared a needle and tested positive for what i assume is hiv all winners in my book but the biggest winner is probably the girl who gives me two hundred dollars for sharing the info about the other two with her i realized after that i could have gotten a fancy watch or ring had i given the second dude the scoop on the first but oh well i'm not exactly hurting for cash at the moment after this i find another girl who wants to show me the catacombs where the giovanni family has created a bunch of zombies if anywhere in this house screams sarcophagus it's this area well i make it through house of the dead simulator and down into the chamber with the sarcophagus where two brothers from the queijin stand guarding it they let me know that i'm violating some kind of agreement between the queijin and the camarilla but i don't care about that so i fight them in slow motion then lift the sarcophagus over my shoulder and walk it out of the catacombs and through the mansion full of people before loading it into my truck and driving away i guess we're just going with the video game logic route for this one which is kind of sad because the only time you really ever see this in the game is when humans live through headshots i don't know i won't dwell on it too much but i will say that i get this experience modifier token thing at the end of the game i get not handing it out at the start but isn't it kind of weird to not make it available mid game or something i guess my stat sheet isn't exactly hurting but it's completely useless at this stage for me as it only affects 6 different side quests netting you an extra xp each time had i waited to turn in those side quests this might have actually been a super useful thing for me but as it stands i kind of got punished for it i guess if i was going the min max route i could have primarily sunk my points into combat skills blitzed through the main story and then went back and did those side quests for superfluous skills eh whatever at any rate the prince either feigns the knowledge of or actually has no idea about any alliance with the queijin as he insists that the two i fought told me this to create dissident in the ranks of the camarilla as much as i believed him before about the whole decision with nines i don't believe him at all with this either way the prince is ready to crack open the big dead guy coffin but it won't budge at all my guess is that it's got something to do with that little indentation on the top meaning that if someone had opened this before they probably still have the key that said the archaeologist who found the coffin has been man-napped by the same guys who burnt down grout's mansion and is now being held at their stronghold that guy's gonna be the guy that we need to rescue in order to tell us the have you tried getting the key to open it now i pointed out beckett as possibly being the traitor quote unquote in which case i'm leaving him here to fiddle with the sarcophagus but i mean you've got the prince and his gigantic meaty manservant watching the dude at all times hard to say if it would be a fair fight seeing as the loading screens have told me that werewolves have been known to rip vampires to shreds with no issues i don't know i'd still say the prince is just pulling all the strings here to gain as much power as possible though it is obvious that he doesn't have the key i do like beckett though the guy is the embodiment of sarcasm put your ear to it i'll shake it and you tell me what you think's inside the society of leopold's stronghold is well-guarded if well-guarded meant that all the guards needed laser eye surgery stealth is still [ __ ] but that's alright just means that i have to go through this place while crawling i mean i guess i could fight my way through but these guys look like they have some pretty heavy weaponry this place honest to god feels like an afterthought it's just this hilarious combination of guards which can't see me murdering other guards laser trip wires which the guards can just walk through without taking damage computers which are stationed directly in front of said tripwires and skyrim grunfeld npcs only on his old nemesis let us hope his fanaticism best serves the interests of i mean at one point a dude actually spots me and i blast him three times with a shotgun no one else noticed so i make it down into these tunnels and find ash the douchebag at the club that i helped out before at least i thought i helped him out anyways he's in a cage looks like they did a number on him so i give him a blood pack and take out the next room of guards to find the key what's weird about this is the fact that i get no experience or anything like that what a waste of energy man oh well we make it to the master vampire hunter who has the ability to turn into water or something i guess i can't really complain i'm out here sidestepping bullets like keanu reeves so he goes down pretty easily with my shaky handed sniping and then i make it to their hostage the archaeologist i'm an archaeologist not a mythologist i am an archaeologist an archaeologist archaeology in addition to letting me know that he's the archaeologist he also lets me know that he has zero belief in vampires and explains away the imagery of ancient kings drinking blood with the prevalence of a more common disease at the time which caused an iron deficiency he also tells me of an ancient king who was said to rule for 250 years around 1000 bc or so which he explains was probably the result of the monarch purposefully erasing the existence of his predecessors or his name being passed down to his heirs this king named messerac was supposedly very powerful and earned the reputation for being a legendary vampire now all of this coming from the archaeologist's healthy dose of skepticism makes him believe that there's no way that mesarak's corpse is in the sarcophagus but i promise you it is more likely to be filled with uh gummy bears than vampires but he does tell us that he didn't just happen upon the dig site where the sarcophagus was found the site location was instead mailed to him directly with no return address most importantly though the archaeologist tells us that a key of all things is needed to open the big shoebox and my guy asks if the archaeologist has a copy like the guy just ran down to ace hardware to grab a key duplicate along with some nails and a bucket of paint why was i written to be this dense when i head back to lacroix tower an attack by the sabbat has taken place and the kroy's guys wiped the floor with them chunk chunk chunk chief you believe what happened the other night i couldn't come into work on a counter i bought a tamale from a street vendor and got to scoot something terrible what lucky thing too because that food poisoning saved my life the prince sees this as an act of desperation and decides to send me to destroy their branch at a hotel here once and for all sounds like a pain in the ass but maybe i'll learn a little bit more about the sabbats point of view so this place uh remember the warrens what was the design philosophy there cram a [ __ ] ton of enemies into one place and make the player fight them it's the same thing here except they're thankfully not those ankle biters from before now i imagine this would be super tough i mean [ __ ] i tried to sneak by for a bit and wound up with a bodyguard who eventually noticed me so i switched to fight mode i started off with celerity 4 and thought yeah this is pretty easy then i remembered i had 21 points to spend and decided to go to celerity 5. you're going to love this trust me this is [ __ ] insanity dude this is what john wick sees this is what it's like to chew 5 gum i'm running through this place asking every vampire here if they want to see me run to that rock and then asking if they want to see me do it again i don't know how to play this game normally anymore and you know something this would be a challenge with no solarity and it would still be a challenge if there was no way to recover my blood supply i mean yeah sure i could have stocked up on blood bags and i did but i didn't even have to go get those [ __ ] down my throat because there are these hostages all over the place that have their eyes gouged out which dot my path all the way down to the bottom hard to say if including them was the right call but i'm still going to use them i mean maybe if you're playing a vegan vampire this is a hard to run or just one without celerity or something anyways at one point during my rampage they lady napped the girl who's been living with me after i saved her life at the clinic in santa monica when i come down they just [ __ ] kill her which upsets me because i was celebritied out of my mind i should have gotten there faster than a speeding bullet so now i'm mad and i make every vampire in here pay for killing my scantily clad blood bag including the weird ass fish creature vampire from before whose name i can't say confidently before i fight him though he gets real mad at me which is a pretty stark contrast from when i talked to him before he basically calls me like 40 forms of stupid and tells me how strong my blood is and that if it weren't for that i'd have been dead a long time ago more interestingly though he tells me that the sarcophagus must be destroyed which isn't what i thought he would want as a sabbat agent i mean from what i heard the sabbat liked to eat other vampires to gain their power and this sarcophagus contains possibly the granddaddy of all vampires so to see that this guy wants it destroyed it makes me wonder if we're the bad guys here here to talk me through that theory is the leader of the quajin in chinatown who goes check this [ __ ] out and then transforms into nines great yeah lecroy is a good actor he was the bad guy the whole time blah blah blah i don't know i it's hard to be disappointed i mean the writers were dangling the idea that lacroix was the bad guy in front of us the entire time but i kind of wanted him to be like i don't know some kind of good force in disguise or something someone who was misunderstood you know what i mean like the reason he'd want to open the sarcophagus is to banish the evil within or something but yeah she tells me all about how lacroix has betrayed their alliance that he lied to me about and how he keeps burning bridges to seize power including killing grout to frame nines i mean hey maybe she's just lying right it's possible there's definitely still room for a twist the thing is though i'm just now realizing that there really is no choosing the anarchs part way through the game maybe at the end of it possibly but like i don't know what if i'm a complete [ __ ] to the prince the whole time what does that affect is it just this attitude or the rewards i receive are there actually different quests i'm pretty sure there aren't because i just glossed over the wiki to see if i missed any quests at any rate lacroix does exactly what i thought he'd do and tells me that the quaijin are manipulating me and as a show of good faith he tells me to go find nines and offer him an alliance with the camarilla you know this is gonna go well sure enough when i talk to nines at the park someone sets the forest on fire this wouldn't be a huge deal if it weren't for the fact that this is werewolf territory come on kid we gotta get inside that building until it comes meaning that we finally get to fight one and he takes no damage right okay so yeah werewolves are just the alpha males here well i run my ass away in slow motion into a building circling it like five times before finding this room that has a switch that does something this shit's so intense that i wind up using my os specs despite it not really doing anything the switch won't work until i flip a different switch outside so i do that sprint back in and flip the new switch which just uh opens this wall ah all right so i gotta just sit here and then i get brave and i find the werewolf who chases me back here and gets stuck in the opening so i close this thing on him and he howls his last howl i didn't mind the sequence i thought it was actually kind of cool i mean [ __ ] it's been a while since i felt scared for my life in this game i'm just glad that i didn't have to run out that three and a half minute timer in celerity five that would have been brutal well jack rolls up and drives me back to my initial [ __ ] apartment in santa monica before informing me that lacroix has now put a blood hunt out on me framing me for working with the quaijin and killing nines i know i've been trying to predict this twist for a while now but if there is none it's alright too i guess when i said before i was expecting some kind of twist where lacroix was actually the good guy i didn't mean that it needed to be shoehorned in i mean the big thing is that if you're going to make your plot have a pretty obviously selfish antagonist then you can make the player feel like the guy needs to go down via a good betrayal it's also a reasonable riding route and lacroix revealing to be the [ __ ] that he is by suddenly and unapologetically stabbing the player in the back is a pretty good motivator for the player my only gripe at this stage is well my character is pretty dumb and there's really no way of getting around that barrier even if i'm not trying to give lacroix the benefit of the doubt the entire game my character is that stereotypical conduit of the naive protagonist which is used to explain the more obvious plot points more thoroughly and that sucks because even if i'm like yeah [ __ ] the camarilla anarchs for life i still have to do everything lacroix wants me to do including meeting nines for this setup the problem is that the game focuses on this one and only plot line and it makes any dialogue where the player questions lacroix or tells him that he's a [ __ ] pretty pointless in the grand scheme of things now all that said there is a final choice which leads to five different endings to the game and i'll get to that in a moment first i have to fight my way out of santa monica which has me battling vampires left and right this actually gets pretty tough even with celerity 5 seeing as other vampires are using their powers too which includes celerity i enjoyed this quite a bit it's short but the opponents are tough and i like the challenge so when i finally get to my taxi i talk to the driver for once in the cab as we're cruising down the highway he asks me where my allegiances lie and i get the opportunity to choose one of the five endings in one of them i can tell him that i still believe in lacroix to be the best bet for the city in another one i can tell him that the camarilla is still the best bet but that lacroix needs to die in the third i can side with the anarchs in the fourth i can side with queijin and in the last i can be a lone wolf choosing no side i'm so curious about all these endings that well i think i'll cover them all as if this video wasn't long enough but to start i'll go with what i actually believe while i do believe in what the anarchs fight for i disagree with their methods a lot of the time the reckless [ __ ] that they do winds up revealing more to the public than i think it should and even if they gained control of the city they would still be fighting their asses off to keep it constantly it just seems like never ending war the camarilla on the other end actually has some reasonable rules in place with its masquerade tenants the big problem is lacroix who is obviously very greedy and manipulative to such a high caliber that his corruption ultimately serves him more than the kindred i have no issue with the quaijin they seem very manipulative and holier than thou but if they can keep to themselves i see no issue with their existence that said i certainly don't want to back them if i can help it and last but not least the lone wolf route is tempting but realistically i think that vampires need to stick with each other beckett can loan wolf all he wants because well he is one a werewolf's power is much greater than a vampire's and them being on their own seems to be no issue a vampire on the other hand i just don't see one who's dipped their hands into the political world as much as i have suddenly leaving with no problem so for my first ending here i'm going to go to the traemere primogen strauss and try to work something out with him to overthrow lecroy well strauss needs me to get the key from the quaijin in order to actually i don't know why i guess just so the quaijin don't have it but the problem there is that if i die to lacroix and his big [ __ ] load of a sheriff he'll just have the key smart well my character doesn't question it so i go to the temple and just start beating ass all the way through it there doesn't seem to be vampires here just a bunch of ninja samurai people that said they sure know how to take gunshots well either way i make it down into the depths of this temple and wind up in a puzzle area where i collect four jade statues and put them on their corresponding pedestals now i haven't been conservative by any means with my ammo i've just been blasting every dude i see which is a gigantic mistake because absolutely nothing has prepared me for the ridiculous sponge of a boss which is the equation leader like she transforms into this giant hentai monster and it's like okay celerity time the problem is that while i can avoid her ranged attacks by baiting her into a close ranged attack i didn't realize that shooting her tentacles causes them to split off into a clone of her which can easily hit me with its long range swipes while the other one does close ranged ones so i biff it but the second time i have a lot more luck by just running around her and shooting her in the back for the entire fight since i'm shooting her tail her tentacles don't split and she doesn't ever get a clone but this takes for god damn ever i was already out of ammo in my spaz and was running low in my revolver so i use all of my revolver ammo switch off to my utica shotgun realize that its reload animation takes 7 million years in celerity switch to my rifle which only has so many shots to begin with switch off to my flamethrower which runs through fuel in approximately 3 seconds switch off to my og run that out of ammo and then switch off to my brock nine millimeter pistol to finish the job i am so glad that i've been hoarding ammo with all of my money in this game because for shits and giggles i decided to switch to my katana when she got low and she instantly flips around when i do that and wrecks me i see no reasonable viability for melee builds in this game honestly this boss i mean jesus is not a great design it doesn't do tremendous amounts of damage but that doesn't matter when it has this much health like honestly it's way too much i don't think i'm lacking in firearms combat capability at 8 but maybe i am if i didn't have celerity as a toryador vampire i don't know how i would have felt this behemoth i don't know i'm honestly not knowledgeable enough about the other abilities in this game to make that assessment for sure but i do think that this boss would have felt a lot better with even half of its health either way i snagged the key and head back through the portal this is one of the best decisions in the game as i instantly find myself back in the taxi along the highway i don't have to backtrack i don't have to go through anything else when i want to go purchase weapons it instantly puts me in a conversation with the vendor it's perfect it literally does everything i wanted this game to do with other parts of it when i had to slog back and forth between various points to get the quests done but it's alright better late than never when i make it to lacroix tower i face down the final boss gatekeeper chunk i don't know what happened but lacroix says i'm not supposed to let you up under any circumstances he says i should escort you out of the building so i'm afraid you're gonna have to leave i love you chunk then i head up the elevator and well it sure doesn't teleport me to the top like it always has meaning it's going to be stopped yep now i get to take out this plague of regular ass unarmored security guards which for some reason do tons of damage with the knife i don't know why but either way i head up this tower slowly before the prince sends down a guard which he's dominated and basically strapped an explosive vest onto so basically the dude gave me free explosives the thing is i had no idea what i was doing with it so the first time i planted the explosives on the elevator realized it was on the elevator with me and then jumped off and died somehow the second time i went to the top killed all of the guards then planted the explosives and thought wait does this elevator go up another floor brilliant so yeah i was supposed to use the explosives to kill all of the guards up top but i guess it doesn't matter much anyways because i snacked on one when i got up to it when i finally reached the top the sheriff stands waiting for me he don't say anything though that's too bad he starts swinging at me with his buster sword and teleporting behind me in slow motion as always he doesn't take much to bring down but he does turn into this big fat [ __ ] bed and carries me outside for the final battle it's not difficult at all as he keeps swooping around and i just unload on him at one point he tries to eat a guard but he's too slow and that's it finally i make it to the prince i don't know what he's going to transform into but here we go i need the key don't you understand this city needs a leader the quaijin will kill us all with the power that's inside that sarcophagus i can protect this city give it to me well done neonate your powers are considerable for one so young you will be a great asset in the years to come wow all right well i guess that's it then i mean don't get me wrong i actually agree with the decision here the prince isn't a fighter he's a manipulator the sheriff does the fighting for him and he deceives everyone and negotiates everything else brains and brawn i really only have two issues with all of this for one the ending is very abrupt i guess i was expecting one of those ending cinematics where the graphics are much better than the rest of the game or maybe some kind of epilogue as to what happened instead the credits roll and it just takes me back to the title screen the second thing that i take issue with is the difficulty of the queijin boss when compared to the sheriff i mean i honestly thought i was going to get slapped around by the sheriff after what i went through before this but it was way way way easier it just seems odd if you ask me especially given that the key was probably more important to get after securing the sarcophagus when everything is said and done the sarcophagus get sealed away in a warehouse to never be touched again and the camarilla management shifts to hopefully something better alright i'm not going to bother playing through every ending again because it's literally the same gameplay i will however show what happens using some other footage from youtube now i did say a lot of the dialogue doesn't really matter when it comes to the gameplay itself you won't get a special mission if you tell lacroix to [ __ ] off earlier in the game he just dominates your will and makes you do his bidding instead what your dialogue choices do affect however is the endings that you can choose from and apparently i was rude to mingzhou at some point because there are only four endings i can choose from and if i had betrayed strauss earlier in the game i wouldn't have been able to do the ending that i did so as i can't even play through the equation ending let's start with that so yeah it's the same thing as before with the prince on his knees except this time mingzhou waltzes in behind you and belittles him before one of her guards chops his head off then she basically calls you an idiot and tells you that there's no way that she would ever let an impure being like you into her precious ranks so she ties you to the sarcophagus and sends you to the bottom of the ocean that is [ __ ] brutal i do actually like this ending just because it keeps ming zhao true to her character as a pompous arrogant queijin who views all other creatures of the night as unwashed demons though i do have to say that it almost feels like this should have led to a boss fight in which you fight her i mean [ __ ] she doesn't dominate you or do anything to keep you from fighting back and you have to defeat her in the other ending so i don't know just seems like a misstep there there's only one more thing that i really want to say about the queijin and it's not as much about them as it is their role among the knight version of vampire which i've been a part of for the whole game the organization is hinted at multiple times throughout the game as something mysterious the vampires of the east which work differently than the breed of vampire i'm so familiar with but the game never does a great job at explaining their role in how they're viewed by others when i was first told that the camarilla may have had an alliance with the quai jin my first thought was who cares because i had no context queijin didn't attack me on sight before i engaged them directly they didn't mistreat me by any means i mean sure they were smug but i had no reason to hate them and yet when it's later revealed that lacroix had an alliance with them to a choice few characters they gasp and explain how awful that is because of how long they've been at war with the koi gin and again this is just a little sprinkle of information that could be potentially missed depending on who you talk to i just really feel like their role should have been fleshed out a little more in this game anyways next we've got the anarchs ending this one has a bit of preface that i can play through where it turns out that nines made it out of the woods and actually killed the werewolf that attacked him god damn son this guy's probably stronger than me after this it's business as usual though i did find a bit of conversation funny when i can tell him well as long as mg zhao can't shapeshift into a tank i'm good anyways after getting up to lacroix your character stabs the [ __ ] out of him this time and then gets to choose whether or not to open the sarcophagus if you don't choose to open it you leave the key on the floor with lacroix who does open it this scene is amazing now my sacrifice who are you [Laughter] [Music] yeah i guess i was somewhat right about jack messing with the sarcophagus before though not for anything nefarious apparently afterwards he's sitting on a lawn chair watching the fireworks with the corpse of messerac and the taxi driver at his side if you choose to open it you die also though not much is effective with the aftermath this is probably my favorite ending so far because it's so cathartic even if you choose to get greedy though i do prefer the prince's maniacal laughter over your character's dumb face silently moving away from the c4 the independent ending is basically the same thing as the anarchs except after lacroix blows himself up your character walks by nines as he compliments you and you just flip him off that's it i mean i guess it's okay just eh of course if you open the sarcophagus it's the exact same ending as the anarchs the lacroix ending on the other hand is definitely better than the last one basically lacroix does his whole lying [ __ ] and says ah yeah must have been the quaijin which set you up to die i mean realistically it could have been them but we all know it was lacroix he has you run off to grab the key and when you return he names you his new right-hand man then you both open the sarcophagus together and die while this isn't anything new i do like the implications of what may have happened had there actually been a prize in the sarcophagus after all the prince begins monologuing about the possibilities of who could be within and claims that he will seize the power inside to become even more powerful than the camarilla itself proving his loyalties to be completely to himself and nothing else i like that he shows his true colors in this ending and it makes it probably one of the better ones to get knowing all of these other endings involved this sarcophagus though it's kind of funny to think about the original ending that i got where these guys wheel this big coffin into a warehouse and it's just packed to the brim with explosives and nothing else of course there is a secret ending which only ever occurred in the patch plus cut content version of the game which i didn't use it involves being a malkavian the insane variant of kindred it um well i can't lose i will open the sarcophagus i'll build an empire it won't end here if you don't think that that's the true ending of the game and that this is what bloodlines 2 is going to continue off of then you really don't understand good storytelling but yeah it's worth mentioning that being a malkavian gives you all sorts of different interactions and crazy ass dialogue throughout the adventure that alone lends a lot of replayability to the game which is awesome vampire the masquerade bloodlines is a gem among gems yes i got frustrated with it at times it's by no means perfect i still wish that there were several different quests which could only be unlocked by dedicating yourself to a particular faction early on there are a lot of things at the start of the game that i really loved that made me feel like a fish out of water but right around the late mid game things started to sour and it made me wish that they had done less with the warrens and more with chinatown i wish the stealth system wasn't a broken pile of [ __ ] i wish there was a bit more thought put into some of the more enemy heavy areas but i still got a solid 24 hours out of it with all of the content that it did have and it was much more than i ever expected it could be for a game that's practically old enough to drive the way that you can build your character the different feeling to every setting the people that you meet and the humor that many of them bring to the table this game has so much that i love that i'm going to keep with me in my heart and i mean yeah i'm probably going to be getting bloodlines too because of this i just hope that it can live up to the standard set by its predecessor thanks for watching i did not expect this video to take this long by any means like jesus dude either way i want to thank gog again for the deal on this one and i encourage anyone who doesn't have the game and hasn't been spoiled by this video to pick it up with my link i've also got some shirts this one and this one and this one and i don't know maybe a few more you like shirts i find them to be a good way to not be shirtless i also have a twitch where i play things i mean not very well but boy do i play them i have a twitter where i sometimes tweet things nothing important but boy do i tweet them i have a discord where people talk about things probably nothing of value but boy do they talk about them and i have a patreon and that's it have a good one

Channel: The Salt Factory

Views: 663,971

Rating: 4.8976393 out of 5

Keywords: Vampire, The Masquerade, Bloodlines, VTMB, Troika Games, Evaulation, Review, Analysis, Good, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, Camarilla, Anarchs, Sabbat, Toreador, Brujah, Tremere, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Ventrue, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Chinatown, Kuei-Jin, Cainite, kindred, ghoul, LaCroix, Smiling Jack, Nines Rodriguez, Heather, Chunk, Sheriff, Gary Golden, Romero, RPG, stats, powers, Celerity, Auspex, SOAK, Jeanette, Therese, Tourette, The Sin Bin, Ming Xiao, Antedilluvian, Messerach, sarcophagus

Id: uTP-8Vc3cME

Length: 95min 26sec (5726 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/PoshPopcorn]

I liked the bit where he thought Beckett was a werewolf even after meeting actual werewolves.

[u/mrhelmand]

This was a good video, some minor errors aside (which were all understandable)

I never get tired of watching reviews and analysis videos of the game, getting different perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses.

[u/AskMeAboutL00M]

It's neat that someone with no knowledge of bloodlines or VTM can still enjoy this game so much in a first playthrough in 2020. Just goes to show how great it was.

[u/Van-Goth]

Just wanted to post this, good thing it's already here. He did a good job on this one, his other stuff is enjoyable as well. Give this man some love.