Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice

Once I saw I paid 4,79€ for this, yeah I can recommend it. [i]A bit stealth, but why bother with stealth.[/i] Is it fun to be a vampire ? ⠀⠀⠀Yes Does it look nice ? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Yes [i]Did this game bring back memories of Venice last year, the smell and the rats I saw while sleeping two nights in the old town?[/i] ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Yes, but italy is cool

dont listen to the haters this ♥♥♥♥ kicks asssss <3 ^w^*~

games optimization is terrible once you get through the tutorial and go to the actual game where its more open optimization is thrown out the window

if you set the rendertarget to below 1.0 in the ingage option it does not render 0.9 per axis, not it renders something completly mushy, much, much lower than 0.9 per axis. if you reduce antialiasing in the options menu nothing happens ... and tha game seems to use msaa 4x by default that is high for an 8gb gpus (don't even talk about 6gb vrm gpus) and forces you to reduce the rendertarget way more than needed.. the game will probably receive no patches anymore the ftg discord seems to be dead.... so yea, for this i won't give a recommendation is the only feedback, where the pc (steam) port seems to be rushed and even very obvious bugs got never caught.

Is a good stealth game at its core, but with story, metroidvania elements, environmental puzzles and a skill tree even if very minimal (one of the biggest weak point for me). Another core part of the gameplay is that to use skills you have to actively manange your blood (feeding on enemies when possible or others npc to replenish it) so is critical to choose when to feed and on who, or when to go more aggressive to not be without blood later on when maybe is more needed. The climbing mechanics, under some aspects, is on par if not superior of the one of Assassin's Creed Nexus, so is very smooth and agile, with no clunkiness at all. The strongest points though were the story and the abundant lore with a strong atmosphere and the enviroments. Everywhere is gorgeous to explore (especially for the illumination used), also vertically with windows that lead to buildings interiour or shortcuts or hidden alleys on the ground with secrets and lore to collect (Is well designed to funnel towards main paths, but it rewards a lot going off the main roads to explore around since you can climb almost everywherel) and Venice is very credible. 100% worth it even at full price.

The game is OK. I never used stealthy tactics, I just killed everyone, which is pretty easy. The graphics are good enough. If you search for something like Thief or Hitman, this might be for you, but you won't have as many options, since the levels are very linear. There are not many alternatives to choose from. It took me 11 hours to beat the game.

Disappointingly boring and linear to the point of railroading. It really is only a Quest-VR game and nothing more. It doesn't look very ugly, but it is obvious how little it does graphically, with basically no depth to anything, just flat textures on flat walls, a lot of repeated models and an artstyle I've already seen enough of. The world feels unreal; there is very little interactivity, only a few items can be picked up and they are used again and again (So many of the same pen, books, etc. Also very little different room decor.) The most effective way of attacking is using the instant kill blink, but if that runs out, it has a lot of bricks just lying around. Everywhere. Because you can't pickup any of the weapons people drop. It feels stupid how hard the game forces stealth instead of having it as the best option and offensive combat as a challenging last resort. I also couldn't get into the story, which wouldn't be that problematic, but there is just nothing else there for me. The combat doesn't feel good, the movement isn't that fun after the first few minutes and the world feels empty and cheaply made. There are objects sitting in each other and models clipping through walls. Killed people ragdoll funny after dying and break any immersion that the game is so desperately trying to build. It doesn't help that they can't really be interacted with any further. Rats blink out of existence after killing and dropping them. They couldn't even be bothered to make it work on other headsets. At least on the Vive a custom controller layout fixes it.

I can put up with the stylized 2010s graphics and the campy/cringy dialogue, but the VR controls are shoddy, the level design is questionable, and AI pathing is somehow both incredibly forgiving and incessantly punishing in equal measure. Some of the VR issues may be specific to the tethered Quest 2 setup I was using, but the hands are well below where the controllers are and the shoulders kept getting up in my face (why tf do I need full arms anyways?). The neck bite at first seems cool, but rather quickly gets annoying as you have to lean in over and over (you can't pull them to you like you absolutely should be able to). And with the inside-out tracking of the Quest 2, some parkour/climbing maneuvers are a pain (e.g. monkey bars). I was using the smooth look and smooth move which I do in every VR title that allows it, but even with that level of control, I kept running into situations where some random enemy would appear where I didn't expect, forcing me to rely heavily on the x-ray effect to see enemy hearts. The blink was one of the more frustrating parts with the beam sometimes refusing to turn on (maybe some sort of cooldown? who knows) and other times simply not going as far as it should, or not letting me go somewhere I thought I should be able to. I played Thief VR just before this and had original thought it somewhat mediocre, but playing this game has made me re-evaluate that title more positively after seeing all the little touches that game did better. I can't say this is the worst VR title I've ever played or anything so dramatic, but it's still far from a recommendation for me.