00:00Now, if you are a vampire fan, you're going to absolutely love this game. Creeping around
00:08the rooftops to the beautiful backdrop of Venice is just simply amazing. Now, I will
00:15admit that playing my first hour of this game, I was wondering if I liked it or not. I didn't
00:22feel I was really doing anything apart from trying to find my way through streets and
00:27sewers with no purpose. And you only have one way that you can really go, which you
00:34get gently guided around until you reach the end of that mission. I was also feeling slightly
00:40frustrated that I was seeing a lot of locked doors that I just couldn't find keys for.
00:46But I didn't know at the time that I would be revisiting all these locations and those
00:52doors would become available to me as the game progressed. It's a solo player game
00:58and you have the choice of playing the lead character as a male vampire or a female vampire.
01:04Vampire-esque? I don't know. The story is quite long. I swear I've been playing this
01:11game for about six or seven hours now. The story does enough to keep you interested and
01:17it plods along quite nicely, with some different stories that are thrown in as you find items
01:26and get this voiceover of a memory attached to that found item. The game menus are simple
01:33enough. There's nothing too complicated to navigate in there. The enemies, I wish, would
01:38be a little more smarter and random. I feel it's too easy to sneak up behind someone to
01:46lunge in at their neck, and sneaking around in this game is key. It reminds me a bit of
01:52the very first Metal Gear Solid on the PlayStation 1, except you don't have any guns. The bosses
01:59can be a little bit more challenging, but they still feel pretty easy considering they
02:04are meant to be the big, hard boss. Weapon choices, or powers should I say, are
02:11quite interesting and inventive. So far I've seen the ground swallow up enemies by a hole
02:19opening up in the ground and what appears to be the dead coming up through and pulling
02:25down the enemy into the hole. It's pretty frightening. You can turn invisible with some
02:31great sneak attacks, or you can just stand there in front of the enemy as they're quite
02:36oblivious to you. You get a mini crossbow that's attached to the back of your hand,
02:42which fires these little arrows that can be used to shoot at collectible gongs around
02:48the city, or you can kill people with them, and there's a few other options. Another thing
02:54is, you have to keep your blood levels up if you want to use your powers. If you run
03:00out of blood, you cannot use your invisibility power or special attack powers. So to top
03:07up your blood, you either drink the blood of your enemies, or random folk on the streets,
03:13or there's plenty of rats in the city to catch and get a quick small fix.
03:18A small thing that I get frustrated with in this game is that, when you die, it takes
03:24time for it to load back up. Don't get me wrong, it's only 10 or 15 seconds, but in
03:31the Quest 3 VR, that feels like forever. The level sizes are quite big, or at least they
03:38feel quite big. Maybe being up on the rooftops and ledges makes the game appear bigger. And
03:44you do keep returning to locations throughout the game to play various missions.
03:50But the city of Venice looks fantastic. Having been there many times myself, I have to say,
03:57I recognised nothing. But of course, this is more of a dated Venice than a modern looking
04:03Venice that I visited numerous occasions. The levelling up options are nice. As you
04:10complete your missions, you earn XP. Then you can use that XP to buy stronger powers,
04:17such as your jumping or invisibility, or buy different arrow darts for your crossbow.
04:23It makes you want to complete more missions to get the really cool stuff.
04:29Moving on to the controls. They can be a little fiddly. Making ammo for your crossbow, or
04:36loading it and shooting it is all fine, but creating some spells can sometimes be a little
04:43tricky, especially if you want to do it fast. Not a huge deal, but I wish there was a simpler way.
04:50Puzzles in this game are pretty basic. Most of it involves finding keys to open doors,
04:57or finding wheels to turn to empty water or fill up water, or find power storage devices
05:04to turn off or on to open doors. Be nice to have some more stuff in there, but what is there
05:10is just about enough to keep the game going. This is definitely a unique game in VR. I thoroughly
05:18enjoyed sneaking around on the high ledges and creeping past enemies whilst invisible,
05:24or sneaking up on them to suck their blood. So overall, I score this game at 34 out of 40,
05:34and you can find my scoring system in the description section below. Now please watch
05:40and enjoy the rest of my gameplay video, and give me a like and a comment, and definitely
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06:10So
06:40So
06:49That's it
07:10Uh
07:25I can't be right
07:40Uh
07:50Oh
08:01I'll cover this area
08:19Hello, justice. So nice of you to come. I'm sad to say this is where it ends for you,
08:30child of Haki.
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