Review: Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York – One For The Bookworms Out There

Nintendosferatu.

There are visual novels, and there are visual novels. Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York joins the likes of Phoenix Wright and the not-yet-on-Switch Danganronpa series in marrying the visual novel form with its second-most prominent genre, that of detective work. What’s the most prominent? I’ll tell you when you’re older.

Quite unlike Phoenix Wright, though, Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York contains very little in the way of actual gameplay. Next to none, in fact. You spent all four of its hours reading and only very, very occasionally making a meaningful choice. Much of the experience is passive, and dialogue selections rarely offer much in the way of branching content. This is the novel part of visual novel writ large. If you don’t like reading, you won’t like this. If you want to solve puzzles, you won’t like this. Thankfully, if you like well-written and compelling vampire fiction, you will assuredly like this.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Nintendosferatu.

There are visual novels, and there are visual novels. Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York joins the likes of Phoenix Wright and the not-yet-on-Switch Danganronpa series in marrying the visual novel form with its second-most prominent genre, that of detective work. What’s the most prominent? I’ll tell you when you’re older.

Quite unlike Phoenix Wright, though, Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York contains very little in the way of actual gameplay. Next to none, in fact. You spent all four of its hours reading and only very, very occasionally making a meaningful choice. Much of the experience is passive, and dialogue selections rarely offer much in the way of branching content. This is the novel part of visual novel writ large. If you don’t like reading, you won’t like this. If you want to solve puzzles, you won’t like this. Thankfully, if you like well-written and compelling vampire fiction, you will assuredly like this.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

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