Hey there everyone, and welcome to the first part of my Vampyr playthrough. This is one of those games I picked up because I’m a fan of developer Dontnod Entertainment’s other titles, and was intrigued to see how they fared with a different type of game. I’d originally intended to start this game not long before Halloween, as a kind of themed month deal, but unfortunately real life got in the way and I didn’t start until November, that’s how these things go. This game is weirdly incredibly topical, with several instances of in-game propaganda and information strangely mirroring the very real present day issues we’re facing in 2020.
In this first stream I get to grips with Doctor Jonathan Reid, a man in London during the Spanish Influenza epidemic who awakens on a pile of bodies. He shortly thereafter meets his sister, and overtaken with a hunger he bites her and drains her of blood (I mean that’s no way to treat your family really), and immediately has to go on the run from hunters who seem to recognise what he is. We end up meeting another doctor who recognises us for what we are, and investigate a local incident involving another transformed individual, which leads to us joining the staff of Edgar Swansea’s hospital to help people in these uncertain times.
Until next time…buh-bye!
About Vampyr
Vampyr is an action role-playing video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Focus Home Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 5 June 2018, and for Nintendo Switch on 29 October 2019. The plot relates how Jonathan Reid, a doctor who has turned into a vampire, is torn between the Hippocratic Oath and his newfound bloodthirsty nature.
While attempting to find out more about Jonathan’s condition and his maker, players will have to guide him across the city of London as he interacts with a large cast of NPCs that can catch and be healed of diseases, fight in real time against other creatures of the night as well as the mysterious Guards of Priwen, an order of vampire hunters, and develop his powers and abilities as a vampire.