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• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2021

  It's like... Playing D&d with a DM who won't actually let the players choose anything because it's their platform for venting. They're using it as a tool to monolouge about extistential dread for hours, before you get to choose what kind of way you get to say "hello" to someone, and then there will be another hour of having to read someone chewing the scenery. The character is so set, the illusion of choice is so flimsy, I can't even pretend I wasn't just reading a book.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 13, 2022

  I enjoyed the first one: 'Coteries of New York', which had great writing and a surprising amount of player choice, but 'Shadows of New York' clearly has different writers and did not come close to the previous writing - which is quite dire since VNs are all about their writing. Reams and reams of trite, rambling monologues that don't progress the story anywhere, with very little player interaction other than clicking 'next'. Scene 1 must have around 50 or more text boxes with occasional player choices limited to saying the same thing using 3 different phrasings. And this was just to learn that you're fired. Eventually the tedium gets too much and you start quick-clicking through just to see something happen. And this is pretty much the same for the rest of the game. Additionally there's no choice to play different characters, and the default 'angry-emo girl' you play is pretty scripted - you don't get to shape your character at all. I think perhaps the writers come from other fields and have never written for games before?
• Klaive

  Jun 20, 2022

  I would recommend this game if you played Coteries of New York, because it's a direct sequel and it's a good book. Notice I said book and not game. Mainly because there aren't any real choices. You play a Camarilla chick who won't actually consider leaving the Camarilla, and she's a former Catholic no matter what you believe or want. Her reactions are automatic and not up to you. It's a good read, but it really isn't much of a game. Exciting story, though. I only wish we could've heard it from a non-Cam perspective.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 22, 2022

  I blew through Coteries of New York in one sitting--a really engaging game, very well-written and with interesting characters. So I was excited to play this sequel but was bored almost immediately. You don't choose your character--you play as the woman on the cover art of the game. She has a very specific personality (the biting, aggressive, i'm too cool for life kind of privileged hipster perpetually judgmental cynic). She provides plenty of un-enjoyable monologues in this vain, while Coteries had a more neutral approach in it's protagonist's writing. I couldn't bring myself to retry and read more after my first death here. I really just don't like the character or the writing this time around. This game feels like it has an undeserved chip on its shoulder and I only played roughly ten minutes of it :-\ you'll either LOVE this main character or won't at all. I didn't like her at all. Not for everyone I guess.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 27, 2022

  Like "Coteries of New York" this game excels at atmosphere and lore - and is also too short. I don't really know what else to say about it much except that everyone who wants to experience Vampire: The Masquerade atmosphere like it was meant to be does right in getting this game (and "Coteries" first) but it is also a woefully short experience which is much more on rails, too, as one would think.
• bai1ey.tm

  Feb 9, 2023

  Years ago, a group of VTM players had a space in the same old warehouse as me in Chicago. One of them would ride the Green Line, at night, to the warzone that was Garfield Park WEARING A FUZZY TAIL. VTM is no joke. This game's story is amazing. It has surprisingly hilarious pop culture reference jokes, and the "deep" parts are believable and well written. It's beautiful to look at and the soundtrack rips. I was surprised at how much I liked it. I'm off to buy that fuzzy tail now...
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2023

  The story itself is alright, but you might want to brush up on some knowledge about the World of Darkness universe lore first to understand it. A lot of terms used in game and lots of different factions and sects too to wrap my head around. Not surprisingly I got the "bad ending." I got it on sales though, and with the play time, I'd say it's worth it.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 13, 2023

  It has potential, but I find the characters lacking at best, and grating at worst. Which really hurts the visual novel given how much we follow the characters throughout. In my opinion, I think the main issue was how unsympathetic the majority of the characters were, which contributed to the story becoming more unengaging the further it went along. There is a way to do morally-skewed characters and have the audience still root for them despite their horrid actions. Shadows of New York manages, instead, to make the audience feel... little. A little irritation. A little excitement. I was hoping for more. But the writing just falls short.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 31, 2023

  I enjoyed the vampire lore. This was one of the better looking visual novels, and I dont play a lot of these. I will keep my eye open for more short stories like this.
• george84

  Apr 8, 2023

  Interesting visual novel of V:TM. Play it *after* Coteries because it is truly a sequel. You encounter all the characters you met in the first one, and it provides a lot of support story-wise.