Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires

[h1]Most shallow game of the series[/h1] Buy this if it is on sale and you have a compulsion to have every VTM game in your library. Otherwise, don't buy it, so they make a more polished story next time. [u]Short explanation of why I'm so disappointed:[/u] I like to play and discover every possible route in such types of games to see what I could possibly achieve and learn more about the characters and what happens around me. For my first playthrough, I play the game normally and make a copy of my savegame at every new chapter. After I finished the game, I try other options that interested me during my normal playthrough. And let me tell you...I was DISAPPOINTED when I went back and tried other options. (spoiler: Your decisions don't change anything for the ending) [u]The long explanation:[/u] I was extremely unhappy with the ending I got and wanted to see what would wait for me if I had chosen differently at different points in time. I loaded my save from the beginning of my last chapter and chose different answers. Each and every answer got me a few line changes on the next page, but that was the full extent of the difference. I thought "Okay, it's the last chapter, I probably can't change much in that chapter alone". So I went back to my save to the beginning of the chapter before the last one and tried every different decision...and it changed nothing. So I went back a chapter before that -> same outcome I went back a chapter again -> same outcome I went back as far as the beginning of chapter 3 and quit at that point. [i]Why should I buy a "choose your own adventure" game when I could have just purchased a book and would not have been disappointed? There are fanfictions out there where you have more control over how the story progresses with chapter selections than this game.[/i] [b]Overall, I am very disappointed with this game/story and cannot recommend it.[/b] Buy Night Road, Out For Blood or Parliament of Knives, those give you something to have fun with!

One of the shortest and just...worst of any VTM games I've played. Very. Very. Meh.

This is actually exactly like a VTM story should be. Many paths, many characters, many goals and schemes etc. It is peak WoD storytelling. The character building at the start is so well done and more organic than most in these games. Theres nice artwork spread throughout the game...I could go on. But if you are scared of the game because someone asks you for your pronouns in the first few minutes, maybe roleplaying games are too much for your cerebral capacities, big boy.

I really didn't enjoy this game. The story just felt bad, with very little way to have any agency or create any feelings of inspiration or excitement at the intrigue. The game feels unfinished and the sexism from the Prince, while it may be character accurate, just adds more annoyance to an already trivial game playing as a non male character. I would recommend the characters be rewritten with more depth and the player given more agency to actually make it fun.

A major decline in quality when compared too Parliament of knives and Night Road. The Pacing is all over the place, the reader is expected to attach themselves to the characters within the first 3 chapters. The broader issue however is pacing. The chapter lengths are short, like really short. One chapter never takes longer than 20 minutes to read, hence there aren't many words dedicated to building lore, character relations, or work on our stats. Additionally it contributes to the pacing issue, within 2,5 hours or 10 chapters the reader is not left any time to really resonate with the story nor for the story to establish itself. All in all this feels more like a cash grab using the VTM IP than a well crafted choose your own adventure.

Out of all the VTM interactive novels this is the only one I just can't recommend. The clans didn't feel like they made much difference in the game. A lot of the earlier stories went nowhere, which could be a symptom of me just choosing to go a different path but there was so many I cant believe it was just a skill issue. Also the story felt like it ended far to early. It wasn't short exactly but where it felt like you were entering Act 2 of the story it just sped up at light speed and then was suddenly over. Like Act the first half of the story was about 90% of the play time. All in all just felt off, wouldn't replay or recommend in really any circumstance. Really nice writing in the begining which was a shame.

个人还是挺喜欢SotS的，虽然作者boss战把大纲甩我脸上加上某些支线天花乱坠的bug，但它写的好的地方文笔是真的好啊…… 当时打完后劲太大一口气刷了好几个结局，浅贴一个最喜欢的结局片段的渣翻： [spoiler] “有时你会遇到想要和你共事的年轻吸血鬼，因为他们认为你带来了改变，而他们也一样，想要改变这个世界。他们告诉你他们的信念：无辜的人不应当受苦，孩子们应当生活在安全的地方，他们只会伤害那些罪有应得的人。他们重复着废屋墙上的文字：‘爱是走私，爱是无序，爱是能够腐蚀铁条的酸。’于是你思索，这句话曾经对你来说是否并非空洞的回响，就像现在对他们这样？不过你仍在继续工作。因为这才是重点，不是吗？去做这些事，即使文字只是空洞。坚持下去，即使你曾失败——即使不断失败。” “人们依然是自私的，残忍的，或者只是天真的，出于各种错误的原因被卷入其中，但是有时候，有时候你会遇到一个人，他让你想起这一切开始之前的自己，在这个世界还没开始按照你的方式来对待你之前的自己。” “年轻人告诉你他们听说过你当年的事迹：你参与过的战斗，你成就过的预言——‘当年那些天’他们是这么说的，还没适应夜晚的口癖。‘我们都是预言者。’你对那些孩子说，预言总是会实现的，‘如果它们还没实现，你就知道故事还没有结束。’” [/spoiler] 这个结局打完真的，很感慨，毕竟SotS的MC给我的感觉就是挣扎，不管怎么选似乎都不甘心，只有这个结局让我感觉[spoiler] 她是真的与自己和解了 [/spoiler] [spoiler] （谁懂啊我原本是冲着RO去的，但对我的冲击都不如这个结局看见MC的释然和成长。而其他结局，怎么说，更像是与现实妥协） [/spoiler] 具体流程是[spoiler] 我走的Markos的RO，最后选不杀Gor+杀Kapriel+和Gor并肩战斗+不原谅Markos（这里有bug，本来Kapriel那里暗示过他已经死了…）+去squat [/spoiler]应该有别的方法也能达到？不过我觉得这里搭配雅典再无亲王食用很香，因为Markos会对你说：[spoiler] Let's hope we do better than the people who came before us. [/spoiler] 关于Markos有两个结局我觉得都还行：[spoiler] 一个是从头到尾都偏向他，另一个是选把Gor的头给谁时不要给Sophia，最后阻止Selena失败，Markos会来找你，可以选和他一起离开雅典重新开始。 [/spoiler]这怎么就不算he了呢（。）另外，答应我走他的RO时氏族[spoiler] 一定要选Tremere [/spoiler]个人感觉比较对味hhh

Первая моя новелла-игра, думала будет хуже, из-за плохих отзывов. Оказалась вполне неплохой и интересной. Главное разобраться и не бросать сразу, ибо ине пришлось несколько раз переходить из-за плохих концовок. Но потом уже стало интереснее. Плюсы: -Греческая атмосфера -Персонажи мне понравились, жаль в игре мало интерактива с ними -Главный герой -Сюжет Минусы: -Вторая часть игры слишком стремительная и ты не успеваешь поспеть за действиями -Короткая продолжительность -Пришлось долго играть заново из-за концовок -Акцент на ненужных персонажей -Отсутствие режима «Рассказчик» Игре стоит дать шанс, у нее интересная атмосфера греческого сеттинга, но брать по скидке.