Hey there everyone, and welcome to the seventh 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 seventh stream we pick back up after the last stream of almost exclusive sidequesting. We catch back up with Mason Swanborough to see if the cure to blindness took, but we mostly jump ahead then and actually push the story. The Ascalon Club ask us to do something that I’m really not sure I wanted to do, and the Lady Ashbury also doesn’t agree. The Knights of Priwen make a direct attack on us, and we get to investigate disappearances in the West End linked to the theatre. I feel like I’m finally getting close to the end of this game, though only time will tell.
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.