Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood

顶着vtm的头衔实际上丫是青少年版撒冷镇，流程比想象中要短，加点建议是从一开始就把单条属性拉高不然过不了检定就拿不到经验没有经验又加不了点这个循环会很难受。 [spoiler] 避世法则呢避世法则呢救一下啊薄血光天化日跑出来玩了这对吗这不对吧 [/spoiler] [spoiler] 莱托我不该在当初跑夜路的时候看你不顺眼的丫简直就是亲王中的楷模 [/spoiler] [spoiler] 选高信仰猎人出身已经闻到一堆臭味还看不出来这一个两个的都不是人的主角是屑 [/spoiler] [spoiler] 最终战斗轮好短啊真的好短 [/spoiler]

It's a solid 7/10. I think you're gonna have more fun with this game if you already roughly know the World of Darkness, otherwise it may be a little bland or confusing. I really like the atmosphere of the small haunted town in America with its own little secrets and mysteries which nicely adds to the overall detective-like story. The characters were fine and fun but could've been fleshed out a little more, along with the reactions of your own character. Also the pacing felt a little weird to me since I played for 2 hours till the word "vampire" was mentioned for the first time but then the ending feels too rushed and sudden, spent barely half an hour on the last scene(s). I had fun with this one and maybe will play/read it again but not in the near future. It's not that deep and heavy on the subject matter but nice and fun for a few evenings.

The best part in my opinion was the Salem romance. It's short (because the game itself is quite short) but I really enjoyed it. It hit very close to home for me so probably won't appeal as much to everyone though. If you like the idea of reconnecting with a teenage crush or "one that got away" I think you'll really like this. As a VTM game it's probably just ok. You don't really even play a a vampire hunter, more like a normal person who may or may not become one by the end of the game. The short length also means you don't get enough XP to build your character as much as I would have liked. The parts I liked definitely outweighed the parts I didn't.

After playing Night Road this one was even more exciting. And its probably a very good introduction into the VtM Universe, because you are a normal human. The Story had a nice feeling & Atmosphere and was also very captivating. I can only recommend this kind of Novels to anyone who is interested!

I don't understand why this is labelled Vampire the Masquerade when it's clearly a Hunter the Reckoning game?

Out for Blood takes place at the edge of the World of Darkness. Everything here is much lower on the power scale than is usual. But things here are still deeply personal. The game shines with its large varieties of endings.

Overall, I'd certainly put [i]Out for Blood[/i] in my top five of Choice of Games' [i]World of Darkness[/i] gamebooks, though not without caveats. The caveats aren't "for me," though, so much as they are "for other folks, maybe." It's very much a slow-burn sort of story; slow enough that the ending seems rather abrupt, as if there should be more buildup for it, but that's less a function of the story being terse (I'd hardly call 450k+ words a short CoG story) and more a function of everything else being as detailed as it is. And goodness, there's a lot to cram in there! Sure, there's an antagonist, and sure, having to deal with them is ultimately the story's main thread, but there's so much to do in the interim that it's easy to get lost in the "everything else." Jericho Heights lives and breathes, with plenty of cast members to talk to (many of whom have quite significant roles in the story) and plenty of things to do outside of worry about the whole "vampires" business. In particular, being a store-owner is quite a fun little thing that crops up just often enough for me to wish there was more (and low-key hoping for more Store Management stories from CoG in general.) So what's not to like? Well, it goes hand-in-hand with what i just mentioned: if you're looking for a story about vampire hunting, it's...only technically that kind of story. There's a lot more of investigating what's going on with the Antagonist, and talking to the people that they've influenced throughout their storied career in the town, than there is of actually fighting them. [i]Out for Blood[/i] isn't about being a hunter; it's about being a mortal, in out of their depth, with a few other folks similarly out of their depth against supernatural forces they don't entirely understand. If you like the thought of getting in that headspace, you'll probably like this. And if you were looking for more straightforward Stake-n'-Baking of humanoid leeches, you should probably find something else, because [i]Out for Blood[/i] isn't that kind of story. Definitely worth a Thumbs Up from me, but not the sort of CoG title I'd unequivocally praise, like [i]Night Road.[/i] Read a few other reviews if you're on the fence and not quite sure. I wouldn't call it a bad story by any means, though - just not everyone's cup of tea.

Out for Blood is a pretty great story straddling the line between Vampire the Masquerade and Hunter the Reckoning. Playing as a normal person coming to a small town after your grandfather passed away to put his affairs in order is a pretty good setup (which incidentally made me think of the opening to Stardew Valley) and it is difficult to get the "small town with more going on beneath the cozy exterior" wrong, as it's an excellent trope for a story like this. And it very quickly becomes apparent that there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. Compared to Night Road, Out for Blood has a slower pace, which I think works well for it. The character progression is slower and feels more deliberate, since this time you're just a human and not a vampire, meaning you have to think more carefully about how you spend your XP. The choices also felt a lot more meaningful than they did in Night Road, which I think is due to a smaller, more personal scale to the story. Having said that, the one major gripe I have with it is the ending. As with Night Road, there are multiple endings, though it's much less obvious which one you're on track for, and the ending I ended up getting [spoiler]being kidnapped by the FBI and put in "witness protection"[/spoiler] felt unsatisfying and like a complete Deus Ex Machina. I hope the other endings are better than this, though I'll admit, to me personally, that bar is not set very high. In conclusion, if you enjoyed Night Road, and don't mind seeing the world of Vampire from the other side of the Masquerade, you'll probably enjoy Out for Blood too.