The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut

This is not a review per se but rather a warning. Servers are down and no steam cloud. This one was free for original owners and should have been the ultimate experience. But in the end its not worth it to even start. They took the more liniar(which feels more like a diablo 3 ) skill system from 3 and put it into every game. While i personally liked the first game and the second one (although this one was buggy therefore hated by the community to a certain extent) the third one is an overall universal "bad game". Which the directors cut solely works around with. Not to mention it doesnt fix anything, I still had the same bugs from the second game. The only people who play this are those who dont want the individual titles in their library or completionists. No point into looking into this.

I don't hate this game, but I have tried it several times and have never once found it compelling enough to continue playing all the way through, and I'm a sucker for its genre. It's far from the worst thing in my library, but little defines it outside of its mediocrity.

This will be a long one to cover... honestly I'm quite conflicted about this one, but here it is. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut is the definitive edition of the complete TIAoVH series, containing all 3 games in a single playthrough, some fixes, quality of life changes and using the third game's graphics engine. If you want to experience this ARPG series, this is the perfect game to go to. One of the two strongest points of this game is the atmosphere and the protagonists. Throughout the game you can explore all kinds of natural environments, steampunk city, alternative dimensions and so on. With these the enemies in these regions are different and most of them fit pretty well. Also, some of them are unique to see in general. The other point I really like are the protagonists. In general, Van Helsing and Lady Katarina are not interesting characters at first, but their interactions and conversations with each other are pretty good, and you can genuinely smile about them. It's fun to follow their development throughout the games and how the story affects them, which gets more interesting in the final third of the game. I also have to give credit for the many easter eggs and references this game has. At first I thought some of those are just really unnecessary, but it's fun to see all kinds of game and movie references, even to see some Hungarian or other cultural references. Gameplay can seem overwhelming, mostly because of the various and big skill trees this game has, which can give you a lot of options to upgrade your characters. There are 6 different classes with similarly big skill trees, also Katarina has different skill trees as well which can be cool to explore. There are side missions to do, secrets to find. I was able to play through the game for around 30+ hours, so there is enough content to see, and also there is a post game gamemode and different multiplayer modes... and I didn't even mention the co-op mode. Controls seem overwhelming at first, but after some hours of practicing you can get used to it. Sounds and soundtrack is pretty alright too. However, as much as I try to say this game is a huge and varied experience, I must talk about the negative aspects, which I cannot ignore even though I have a bias towards this game. Firstly, the overall gameplay can be really boring in different parts of the game. The first third of the game has larger maps which if you want to explore fully you will start to get bored by the same type of enemies and the lack of changes. Later thirds of the game gets better, as the maps get smaller and start to feature some more variety, but in general it can get old to kill a bunch of monsters and upgrade your characters when nothing much is going on. Also, if I want to be honest the post game gamemode is not my favourite, which is just featuring repeating missions which are like different game modes and challenges. Sure, it can be interesting for some, but it was not for me, especially since there was no reason for me to play. Then there are the upgrades. As I said, the skill trees for each class and for companions is pretty big, which can give you many options to work for, but at first the player has no idea what it should upgrade and what direction it should go. This wouldn't be an issue, if the skills would be effective, but not every one of them is any good, so you would need to experiment a lot, which can get you more frustrating situations when you die a bunch in that process. Luckily, later you can reset your points in exchange of gold, but this can be annoying to finally realize and start to figure things out again. In my playthrough I felt that some things were underutilized in the game. One of them are the shops, which in my case I rarely used because the items you can get from there are even worse than what you could get from drops, so I always get hundreds of thousands of gold. Then there was the lair management aspect, which looked promising but it was only good for getting a few items and gold per mission. Same for the chimera element, which I felt was completely unnecessary, even though I try to utilize it as much as I can... and probably the most annoying part for me, the game didn't add more ideas or work more on the existing ones. If the lair management and missions would have had more impact on the game, or if the chimera had more role at all, or if the tower defense segments would have more sense to do other than completing just another mission, the game would have been much more interesting. Sadly there are other things, like how the graphics look not great quality wise, occasionally flickering on some parts of the game as well. Also, I died more times because my character attacked an enemy when I clicked, instead of moving to the location, because somehow the enemies' clicking area is bigger and you won't be able to move around them, unless you move your character with the arrow keys. And I didn't even mention the fumbled final act and the final boss fight, which just felt like an afterthought. This game is like a conventional ARPG, which seems varied and more bigger on the outside, however once you get more into it you will see it lacks on some parts, and either you stay to see some cool areas and go on with the protagonists, or leave the game as it is. I can recommend it for those who know what they are getting into, because this is not for everyone. If you have the chance to play the game's first 6 hours and you still feel like playing more, then you should be fine. Otherwise, you can skip this one. For me it was alright, but it could have been much more if the ideas are better utilized.

was good until they shut servers down and made multiplayer impossible

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut is a fun game to play. It combines all 3 previous games, with some important improvements. A solid ARPG with an engaging story and combat. It has great maps to explore that are full of interesting details. Great hidden content with plenty of pop-culture reference and jokes. The classes are all very different and very enjoyable to play. The dialogue is fun and engaging. The game will be immensely enjoyable for fans of the genre. Overall a great ARPG

🟦 Quite underrated action ARPG with decent story & great dialogues 🟦 Big campaign 🟦 6 different class offers 6 different playstyle 🟦 Easy respec option 🟦 Lots of skills to choose from allowing you to customize skills 🟦 Controller support 🟦 Adventure maps provides huge endgame content 🟦 Highly replayable game 🟥 Game has huge graphical glitches. At first I thought my graphics driver had a problem and reinstalled it multiple times until I realized it's the game's issue. Turn off 'High Effects' setting to significantly reduce it (although you lose a lot of graphical detail as well) 🟥 Can have very inconsistent performance 🟥 FPS does not limit properly (60 FPS is actually 52 FPS cap) 🟥 Controller support is missing some important functionallity. There's no seamless switching between mouse & controller making the problem worse as you've to restart the game 🟥 You can't retry failed quests 🟥 Some game mechanics are not explained at all (Like Rage) 🟥 Forced account login pop up at start (you don't even need to create to play this game) 🟥 Game experience becomes a bit stale after mid-game as you don't acquire anymore new powers/skills There's also a supposedly great mod for this game which shouldn't be overlooked: https://steamcommunity.com/app/400170/discussions/0/490125737479241823/

An enjoyable stress relief. Just shoot everything in sight without a care in the world. Seriously, this is an easy to play game with lots of variety between levels, good enough visuals and just fun to play.

[h1]An incredible RPG! definitely on the must play category[/h1] This is a truly underrated gem like Grim Dawn. [u]Pro's[/u] - You get to play as Van Helsing what more do you want? - Decent gameplay - Content - Decent Graphics [u]Con's[/u] - Less enemey variety. Still fun to blast through them - Maps could have been better ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template