評論

• gamedeal user

  Apr 22, 2015

  This is the crowning jewel of pre-release games. I kid you not. Day one, I found an exploit and two major bugs that could have wrecked the game. I pointed them out on the game forum. Day two, they were gone. The very next day I pointed out a couple interface anomolies, such as highlighting the slots where you place pieces of armor. Day three, they were gone. I pointed them out, and within the next six hours a patch arrived that addressed *minor* annoyances, and let me assure you they were minor--this is a pre-release game. I did not expect it to run well on my PC. I did not expect it without bugs. No, I expected it to be a good game that required polish. Apparently, ONE designer did this whole game! If that's not polish, I'm not sure how teams of 17+ can complain. As far as gameplay, this is Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines meets Diablo, as other reviewers have pointed out. What they have not pointed out is the nuances of dungeon crawling, such as secrets to be discovered, minor puzzles, and side areas nobody gets to discover. They even have lockpicking, keys, doors that require opening, and traps for the unwary adventurer. See? Diablo, this is not. It comes across as a homage to World of Darkness, in its raw form, but streamlined down to a very narrow interface which is easy-to-learn, hard-to-master. If you like vampires. If you like dark fantasy. If you like traditional fantasy. If you like MMOs. If you like RPGs. If you like sci-fi. If you like Chinese soap operas. If you like dhampires. If you like your mother. Hell, if you like anything about PRE-release gaming, or even just gaming in general, BUY THIS IMMEDIATELY. If I could hold ten thumbs up I would! I can only hope the game progressively gets better from here. I feel I have gotten my full money's worth. A cinema ticket costs less! Seriously. Buy it! Games deserve this type of dev support. That's even without the synergy, and gameplay balance, here--that combine to make this video game more than the sum of its parts. Even in its pre-release form, this is shaping up to be a visceral, and pulse-pounding (forgive the pun) experience. No kidding! Buy. Just. Click. It. EDIT: I have just gotten into the city areas. I will continue this review as I go. As it stands, the dev support alone has me sold on that movie theater ticket. ;) UPDATE 9/27/2015 (Shortly after Release): I cannot update my original opinions without altering the original review, so as of now, the visuals lack, but the gameplay is nicely polished. It adds up to a more action oriented experience than Bloodlines, but with more depth and sophistication than Diablo. I would ding it slightly for not being as polished as a commercial release, but that is where that ends. In spite of graphics, this is a monumental achievement for one man. For the price of a movie ticket, you get a first-person Diablo, in a World of Darkness-type setting, that nails gameplay and displays polish. Please note this is an independent release, and I think the price tag nicely suits it, though I would have paid $29.95 for the gameplay I got out of it, minus that other games are now haunting my time (Beware of Steam sales!) In conclusion, I would not buy it purely for boredom, but it is one of those "in-between" games where you can engage your RPG addiction before moving onto the dozen or so commercial releases stacked in your library. I would nicely rank it 8/10. Maybe an 8.5 if you like vampires or ARPGs.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 24, 2015

  Found a game breaking glitch at the beginning of the game and posted it on the forum, dev responded and had it fixed in about an hour. I would recommend this game even without that, but to see a 1 man development "team" being so responsive compelled me to actually take a minute of my time to write this and recommend the game. 11/10 would lust for blood again
• gamedeal user

  Oct 4, 2015

  Don't let the indie look and feel (and price) fool you. This game is very deep first-person ARPG, filled with more randomly-generated items and dungeons than you can shake a cross at. There's a thin main story (some nonsense about going after your vampiric sire) but the meat of the game is buried in vast roguelike dungeons where you'll use your own vampiric powers and weapons to mercilessly slaughter legions of the undead, monsters, and other trash. The game is easy to pick up and play, and the ingame tutorials will get you up to speed quickly, although there's a few game systems that you'll need to puzzle out during your own play time. It's not all just hack and slash, though. Bloodlust also tosses in helping helpings of alchemy, crafting, and other activities to spice up the grind. There's really nothing really new here -- BloodLust is, at its core, a very familiar ARPG grind -- but the unexpected level of polish by this one-man-band production is very surprising. Highly recommended, and there are some major studios out there who could learn from this game!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 25, 2017

  It is a shame that I can't recommend the game. Some parts of it are enjoyable, but there are just so many bugs etc. that I just end up frustrated more than anything while playing. Lets start with the good: -A game inspired by tabletop RPG's. Not as good as either VtM Bloodline nor VtM Redemption, but that most likely is because of the budget which is ok. -The game tries to create a vampire society feel with different "clans". The neutral stuff: - The talent trees are randomized for every character. This can be either good or bad. I personally dislike it because I tried both a witch and a warrior and both had awkward skill trees. The witch got talents that improved fighting (+ dexterity every level, +axe damage), while the warrior had a few talents that were for spell casters. - The dialogue is very hit and miss. Sometimes I like it a bit and at times I just cringe at how it is written. Now for the bad things and the reason I won't play it anymore: - Spell casting flat out doesn't work at times. While playing a witch I had a huge number of times there the animation for a spell started, but nothing happened after that. I also had the reverse where I was for instance knocked down, but the spell casting did continue through it. - Mist form is a spell in the game that transforms you into a cloud of mist, but it doesn't function as it should (I think). At one point I transformed into mist, but a spike trap still damaged me (killed me even) and an enemy was just tracking me while I passed it. - Your own spells are dependant on you hitting the enemy, but spells of quite a few enemies are either tracking you or instant hits. There are a few spells you can dodge, but those are only the spells you can learn aswell. I will give 2 examples of what I mean with tracking/instant hitting. The first is that when you fight a vampire golem or ice golem or similar and they hit the ground to knock you down, you can see the path of the shockwave bend quite far if you dodge around while the shockwave is approaching you. The second example is that of spider webbings. If a spider decides to lock you in place with its webbing, it hits you instantly without the possibility of doding or responding. - Enemies quite often spam their spells/attacks. In a fight with a golem it just knocked me down 4 times in a row without giving me a possibility to do a thing about it. - At one point I ran into a bug that caused my stamina, health and energy to stop regenerating. At first I thought my character lacked blood, but that was at 83. So I thought of a debuff, but there was nothing indicating this. In the end I suicided to respawn in a safe area which fixed it, but needing to die to fix this is not that good to say the least.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 9, 2015

  Early Access Review Yes this game is under construction. There will be bugs from time to time. But from personal experiance I can tell you the developer works on fixing any problems reported. I got a nice 12 hour turnaround on my issue. So far in it's current state. Cons Graphics slightly crunchy. By that I mean edges can be rough in areas especially those dark dungeons. It's not bad, but I hope for eventual tweeking. The auto save only aspect. I'd personally would love a save where you will additon. Especially for those quests. Only 3 character types. But be aware with development there's a nice ablity to tweek this. Pros Good combat system. Nice skill development system with a nice talent tree; basically a well designed character development system overall. Clan system will be familar to anyone who ever played a certain Vampire roleplaying game. Story line is excellent. Basically if you ever wanted a good RPG dungeon crawler Vampire themed game you have to try this. Though in development even this early addition is a joy to play.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 21, 2015

  A very nice game that can be played for many hours if you explore the dungeons. I enjoyed my minions (especially Walter) and the creative monsters. Extremely well woth the money. Kudos to the developer who seemed to do the game by himself.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 22, 2015

  BloodLust Shadwhunter is the bastard child of Vampire the Masquerade and Diablo that both amazes and disappoints me at the same time. *PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING IS BASED ON MY AND ONLY MY OPINIONS* The first thing you'll probably notice when browsing through this game's steam page is the relatively lacklustre screenshots. Yes... the visuals are.... lacking to say the last. However, don't let that fool you though as the game's real charm is hidden under its layers of ugliness. Graphics settings will let you tamper with texture, AA and resolution settings to a certain extent; although, I found that with everything maxed my fps hitches a bit everytime I use a spell that produces clouds on the ground. With a GTX 770, this really shouldn't be happening with these kind of visuals. Enemy design is blurry and unimaginative although some well placed monster spawns do give you a heartbeat spike while you're dungeon crawling. Animations are stiff at best while more than a few cases of figures clipping through walls. The game has a small town area that you will be able to explore during the story as well as some prostitues/hobos to suck blood from or turn into your family. Past that is where the real juice of this game is. There is a well fleshed out randomly generated dungeon system in this game filled with traps, treasures, monsters, etc. It's actually quite charming to go into the depths and worry about being making the decision to go further or turn back while you still have the chance. When your hp goes to 0, you will get knocked out. During that time, you can either choose to wake up where you were or spawn in the last safe zone. The caveat is that your body may have been looted while you were down. The class system is basic with 3 in total. There are skill and talent trees that will let you have some diversity in builds. I felt that weapons are extremely restricted to certain classes though as each weapon type usually requires you to heavily invest in one of the three main combat stats. Warriors usually invest in strength to get more dps, witch with charisma, etc. I got a gun early on that required 50 points in strenght and another sword that wanted 30 in agi. These are stats that I wouldn't ever invest in as I picked the witch class. Another odd deisgn choice was separating persuasion from charism. Persuation has its own stat while charisma increases your magic... Lastly is the game's family system. You can suck someone's blood and build your own family. You need to level up the blodo sucking skill to increase family size and your minions have their own stats and skills you can upgrade. As a result of this however, they feel like faceless npc's with no personality. Overall, I highly recommend this game given its low price. While a one person developer certainly doesn't excuse its faults it does engender some sympathy for the lack of resources.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 22, 2015

  Very similar to VTMB (which is one of my all time favorite RPG games), except with a bigger emphasis on action and exploration with secret doors, traps, hidden walls, etc. While not having as many options for character models or clans, you are able to choose your breed instead of just the basic vampire. Seriously liking this game. The only thing I personally don't like is the save system. I was used to the old manual save style where you could choose when to save, with F5 and F9 quick save/load always at the ready. This game uses the traditional dungeon crawler save system in where everything you do is automatically saved, making the choices you make kinda final. + Wonky but fun hack and slash combat where in my character would use the special jump attack, only to get a derp face after getting slapped by a zombie mid-air lol. + Voice acting. Yes, lots and lots of voice acting! + Sire system in where you can manage your minions and bloodline. + Being able to choose who you want to side with. + Being able to choose your character's breed. + Way more inventory options and items than VTMB. + Interesting characters. +/- As I previously mentioned, I am personally not a fan of the save system but that's just me. Overall this is a diamond in the rough, and hopefully the devs are able to hammer out more issues within the game. So even more people get to appreciate it.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 3, 2015

  Think of this as a better version of Vampire The Masquerade Redemption :) so far only got out of the starter area, however while where to go was tricky to find out, it's not impossible to solve on your own, the combat works quite well (I chose to be a witch), so far my fireballs are super effective and my minion tanks for me! minor grievances: - I crashed once. The game saves often for you, so I had no problems picking it back up again though. - some areas make my FPS drop right down, only lasts for a few seconds. - my minion has the worst pathfinding ever, I have to keep on using "come to me" however, the game is in early access, I imagine everything will be fixed in due time. If you enjoyed Vampire The Masquerade Redemption (combat is closer to that one than to bloodlines, though in this one you will always hit if you aim right, it's just a question on how much damage you will do), I definitely recommend it!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 24, 2021

  The Good

  <*> The story is passable and the characters you meet along the way add a lot to the weird, dark vampire theme. <*> Puzzles are enjoyable.

  The Bad

  <*> Graphics are dated. Characters models are poorly animated. Textures and world design is dull. Much of the game is dark and hidden from sight, with minimal brightness and lighting effects that attempt to mask the ugliness. <*> Combat offers very little in terms of variety. You'll be using the same combat tactics no matter what level your character is. <*> Dungeon delving is repetitive and tediously boring. Every level is randomly generated floor with nearly identical enemies as the previous. Exploring becomes painful quickly.

  Final Thoughts

  Bloodlust Shadowhunters is a honest attempt at a vampire RPG. However, it's too flawed to be recommended. There are some underdeveloped game elements makes it increasingly difficult to enjoy after 3 hours of gameplay. If you're a fan of Vampire the Masquerade, you can't help but to compare this to White Wolf's IP; and it feels cheap imitation by comparison.