Frustrated, she then calls the three protagonists in and orders them to uncover the truth using their various vampiric gifts, which is where you start out.
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Having recently been elected to the post, she's on the verge of achieving a mutually beneficial (though fragile) truce with the Hartford Warlocks. Things toddle along just fine until the night of the celebration party, and the Camarilla goes on full alert after the Prince is tipped off about a violent shootout at the venue. Let's zoom in to the Boston-based vampire faction known as the Camarilla and its leader Prince Hazel Iversen, otherwise known as the Swan. In this World of Darkness lore (since it's based on a tabletop game), vampires have guided human civilisation from the shadows since time immemorial, and their existence is kept secret from the rest of the world under an agreement known as the titular Masquerade. Narrative-wise, players will take control of three vampire protagonists - there's the seductive bar tycoon Emem, the psychologically unstable seer Leysha, and the ruthless Camarillan enforcer Galeb. With that in mind, I'd like to inform you that this game doesn't involve any real combat, so as far as the meme is concerned, there isn't going to be any "Morbin' time" here. As a matter of fact, restarting the game only further convinced me that like most of the entities in this game, Swansong probably shouldn't have seen the light of day.Īt its core, Swansong's narrative revolves around politics, and thus most of the characters' wars are waged through words. Unfortunately, that didn't turn out to be the case. While there were some tiny bright spots here and there, they tended to be few and far between, so much so that I actually reset my playthrough halfway thinking that I simply wasn't in the right frame of mind to play games.
Of course, goodwill doesn't make a good game, and the fine print states that I'm only as nice as it deserves and allows me to be. In other words, I will be blunt when the situation calls for it, and I found Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong one of the more unfulfilling and tedious games I've ever played. When it comes to writing game reviews, I like to think that I'm quite generous with my scoring, because as a writer and "creative" myself, I have a baseline level of respect for the time and effort that the developers have poured into their games. Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong (PC) Review: Vampire politics was never this painful
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