There are times when “throwing the kitchen sink in” works extremely well in games. Examples of that method of game design are aplenty, but the same can be said about the opposite, when putting too many systems into a game without honing any of them particularly well only makes it a bloated mess. Vampyr sits at the middle of these two definitions, and thanks to its many teeth, it could’ve been one hell of a game, but it lacks the polish, care and common sense that would’ve made it so. It lacks the bite it could’ve had thanks to that. Set in London right after the end of the first World War, as the Spanish Flu was taking ahold of Europe killing thousands in its wake, you step into the shoes of Jonathan Reed, a famous doctor and blood transfusion expert fresh off from the...
Vampyr might have a lot of sharp teeth, but it lacks bite
