Found this game the day before yesterday and I finally got to try it out.
So far, I quite like what I'm seeing.
The whole even born vampires start off as mortals and when they come of age is turned by a ritual is something which I haven't seen before, so it was interesting.
World filled with vampire politics, backstabbing & betrayals, enemy of yesterday becoming ally of today (or vice versa) with unpredictable landscape in the rule. I can see a lot of potential if the world-building is continued to build upon with solid foundations.
As for the LIs, so far I'd say Chloe is my favorite; her ambition not to mention the playful back & forth banter with the MC I think was the best out of banters from all LIs so far in this Alpha update.
Having said that, I do hope that the other LIs step up also in terms of their dialogue to keep their characters interesting - giving Chloe some healthy competition.
One thing I noticed was that dev spent considerable time building of the lore - all that Codex section I could see significant amount of lore sections as well as the Family trees.
As someone who likes lore stuff, this was great to see.
Some stuff I'd like to mention/ask to the dev
BaconLake :
1) This one is more of a question than anything - what exactly are the weaknesses of vampires in this game?
Fire is mentioned as one element which can destroy them, but what about the following? Do they have any impact on vamps here?
- Sunlight
- Crosses
- Stake through the heart
- Garlic
- Silver
Though garlic is more or less seen as repellent more than destroying vamps, and silver weakness isn't consistent throughout different vampire stories.
Not sure what your stance is in all the above.
Is it more traditional or quite different?
2) With the LIs, while they look good it left me scratching my head a bit as to why almost every single one of them had piercings (except the mother).
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying a character is necessarily bad just cause she has piercings.
But when almost every LI seems to have a piercing somewhere (nose/tongue/lip/eyebrow/navel) I think that's overdoing it & characters lose their uniqueness with that aspect.
Perhaps it's just me, but I would have just preferred having piercings to 1 or 2 LIs instead of almost every single one of them having them.
3) With the stats, most seem self explanatory.
Though what is the Respect stat supposed to represent?
Is that supposed to be how much the LI is willing to support MC as one of Vampire Society's leaders (e.g. if there is an opposing vamp leader, then the LI with higher respect points will support MC rather than the opponent?) - making it a factor in the vampire politics game?
Otherwise, I'm not sure how one would be able to differentiate it from Love stats.
4) After finishing Alpha, it seems some of the images in the gallery are left unlocked; images 1, 8, 9, 10.
How do I unlock those?
So all in all, a lot of potential I see. And I hope this builds up to something great.
Cause sadly not many great vampire games existing in AVN-sphere nowadays, and we sure could use one.