Vigil: Blood Bitterness™

Vigil: Blood Bitterness, known as Vinci instead of Vigil at some point, it a point'n'click adventure game by French indie studio Freegamer. Came out in 2006, I think. It was actually supposed to be part of episodic series. As you see, it never got past Episode 1. The setting of the game is about the cultists vs The Evil. So it's cool. That's as much as I am going to say, enjoy the rest. Sorta. Technical awfulness aside. To launch the game you actually have to 'activate' RIP - Trilogy game's demo. No idea how this is related, but it's an epic fail, yes. Since I couldn't find demo on Steam store itself, I had to use a link off Steam Database site, search for AppID 2560. Then you will be to launch the game, even if Steam ends up doing nothing on demo download command. Then I think you should pick resolution in the middle. Not sure of this tho. Then here is another trick. You can change between Windowed and Fullscreen with Alt+Enter. So, the cutscenes, including text clues, don't work in Fullscreen. However, in Windowed mode the game goes into widescreen mode. Widescreen in a sense that it cuts space that is above and below which makes it impossible to advance through some screens of action. So you want to switch between both, with it reseting to non-widescreen when you go in and out of game's menu. And even then, it can randomly freeze on black screen while doing so. So the game is incredible pain in the butt to play and you should watch walkthrough on YouTube instead. Frankly, it's not that good of an adventure game either, but yeh.

Avoid... it's garbage. Look up a playthrough of it, you'll see you're not missing much for not being able to purchase it. This game had potential by the looks of it, but lost it the moment it took its first breath. Nothing makes sense, you have to figure out the controls yourself, you make one mistake and you have to start the level over. It's dull, it's dumb, creative, but it's like biting a sandwich of ash, crap, and old people sweat. If you see this game in a pack, avoid buying the pack as you'll be stuck with this game. If you want to remove this game from your library, be sure it's not tied to a pack you bought it with or you'll lose access to those games as well! ----- Check out more games I see that deserve more attention from my curator group: [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BPUGL]BluePaw's Underrated Games List[/url] Join and/or follow if you wish.

The atmosphere built by the lore, music and visuals is pretty damn nice; However the gameplay and technical aspects are pretty damn bad. You may see many reviews mentioning that the game doesn't start at all, that's because license assigned for a game is not based on just purchase, but you need to at least try installing some f***ng demo beforehand, so it actually assigns correct license for your full game, so that's a first I've seen. One thing this fix doesn't solve is a headache of technical issues throughout, first is the nonexistent setings, just 3 resolutions to choose, the last one being completely broken, hiding subtitles, leaving you with some low res BS. Second is important videos that should play and give you clues - well, f**k you, if you have a newer PC, those just refuse to show visuals, and everyone is doing whisper speak, instead of speaking english. Then there is changing camera like in Resident Evil, but you move with mouse, meaning that you can click on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chasm and die, making you repeat the act. Lastly there are bugs that softlock your progress, I for example couldn't open the bookshelf in Act 2 at any point. Since it's a point'n'click game, I watched some dude who played it on an old rig in 2011 with all videos actually showing, and I'd suggest anyone interested do the same. The setting is kinda weird, almost EYE Divine Cybermancy weird. Some citadel of grand masters of their chaos religion, operating in space and commanding slaves, when a force they call evil started striking them down, flipping the power dynamics on their head. Visuals are 2-tone, something like Fotonica or Music Machine (second also being a weird adventure game). Music is minimal and ominous, fits the setting. The story itself is not really amazing, the focus is mostly on lore and worldbuilding, the whole thing lasts like half an hour, if it's not breaking for you of course. PS They mention "Sin City" in the visuals description, and list "Set up multiple player profiles" as a feature worthy of note XD

Big DO NOT BUY. When you download and attempt the play the game, it makes you go to a Steam page to download a Demo for a different game before you can even start playing Vigil! Steam should not allow this, but they don't care. If you do get the game to start, none of the videos works. Complete waste of money.

Awful. Broken FMV's, terrible gameplay, inexplicable deaths, no development support. AND YOU CANT EVEN START THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME WITHOUT (acting like) DOWNLOADING RIP TRILOGY. These devs can go ♥♥♥♥ themselves, whatever they're doing with their lives.

Basically Unplayable, none of the cutscenes work, and havent in the 7 years I have owned it.

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Can't even launch.

https://youtu.be/A8skXDhP92g After having to download a demo for a different game in order to make this work, I was already feeling the bitterness. Drawn in by the interesting high contrast art style, this hot mess of a buggy game fails to play it's videos and offers nothing but frustration.