Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong Reviews
Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong is a game with many imperfections. For example, the game is visually graphically substandard and the acting of some voice actors is mediocre. The game does have an interesting story for both a layman and fan. In addition, the fan can enjoy the original lore woven throughout the game. The controls are also quite simple. It is mainly a unique innovative mechanism within the conversation system that makes this game.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
But if you’re looking for Vampire: The Masquerade and you are also old and you don’t want to play a janky battle royale, Vampire: the Masquerade – Swansong is…kinda interesting.
Despite its many flaws, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong somewhat lives up to its central promise: to provide players with a wealth of decision-making opportunities and the repercussions and outcomes of those decisions. You will always feel compelled to give it a go, even though it will require you to endure some of its less elegant aspects.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong feels like something that might’ve been released five years ago when it would be hailed as something special. However, it doesn’t do anything new besides telling a story that is already too complicated by the time players first take on a role. The mechanics are tightly contained, never allowing the player to fully explore the better parts of this game.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is certainly a super-stylish narrative RPG, and it's one that gets off to a strong start, offering up a truly intriguing premise, before falling victim to tedious investigative gameplay, undercooked conversational aspects and a host of bugs that make progress frustrating at points. There's just too much jank here, levels are too rigid, there's not enough freedom in how you go about your investigations or use your vampiric powers to really make things sing and, as a result, we're left with a game that fails to fully live up to its early promise. It's not a bad effort, but with a little more care and polish, it could have been so much more.
Vampire: The Masquerade-Swansong promised to return us to the metaverse of The Masquerade with a narrative title, perfect to know and explore everything it can offer. Unfortunately, it remains in a messy story, perhaps too ambitious for what the study of itself could really give and with a plot and character development that does not offer everything it promised.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While the game's narrative aspect is truly engaging, it's difficult to appreciate all the dialogue options and plot twists with so many flaws that plague Vampire: The Masquerade ' Swansong. With grotesque facial animations, clumsy exploration options, lots of bugs and a lacking introduction to the World of Darkness, Swansong is a game for die-hard fans who are tired of waiting for Bloodlines 2.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong has some novelty as a dialogue focused RPG but is hampered by mid-production jank and subpar level design.
Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong, offers a deep gameplay, a rich universe and real consequences to our actions. Unfortunately, the game is counterbalanced by a sluggish pace and technical flaws.
Review in French | Read full review
Vampire: The Masquerade -- Swansong is an intricate narrative adventure game that can be too dense for its own good at times.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong can be a compelling experience, especially for those who are already familiar with the World of Darkness. Its RPG mechanics lend depth to an otherwise standard narrative adventure, as long as you can grasp their meaning. But wonky gameplay balance and even wonkier facial animations, not to mention some of the more overwritten and under-earned emotional beats, can make falling in love with its vampires harder to swallow than a mouthful of blood.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is a little rough in some places, and mechanics aren't as tight as they could have been, but with an intriguing story, complex characters, and decisions that seem to genuinely change the path events took, it's still well worth taking a bite.
Moral murkiness helps preserve the tension across Swansong’s duration. There’s always something at stake – your life, the masquerade, your integrity – and that does a lot to infuse some meaning into all the talking and scouring rooms for notes. I doubt that Swansong is set to become a vampire RPG of legend, like 2004’s Bloodlines, but it nonetheless makes vampires scary again.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong brings players back to the World of Darkness to investigate an attack on the Camarilla.
Vampire: The Masquerade — Swansong is a narrative, investigative RPG centered around three vampires in Boston. While the writing and quests are enjoyable, the visuals leave much to be desired. Swansong loses a lot of its charm with its jarring graphics.
Vampire The Masquerade Swansong sticks to the source material very closely, adding very little to distinguish itself from many other adventure games, except for some bugs and inconsistencies. Only suited for long time World of Darkness fans.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong follows in the vein of narrative games like those of Telltale and Quantic Dream, but cannot reach the same level of quality. The narrative has a tendency to feel too linear and technically wise the game is far from impressive.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Puzzles are sometimes so tricky without any indication of progression that it sometimes gets frustrating, and even during dialogue, the gameplay systems work against you more often than they help you. Moreover, the game also feels very outdated in terms of animation, something that you can hardly look past while playing. If you like a deep mystery and can bite through all those pain points, give Swansong a chance. But for most people, this bloodthirsty adventure won't deliver the euphoria they had hoped for beforehand.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong was created to serve only the die-hard fans of the franchise.
Review in Greek | Read full review
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong offers us a new installment of the vampire franchise, this time focused on narrative and investigation. Although its gameplay mechanics are interesting and original, and the dialogue system works wonderfully, its numerous technical problems, repetitive gameplay, and uninteresting plot detract several points from a game that could have been better than it is.
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