I will say this about #Bloodlines2: I remain overjoyed that they worked Lou Graham into the story, into the greater VTM lore. She's one of my favorite people in Seattle history, and a personal hero. So, just for that fact alone, the game gets a LOT of points for me.
Lynn Zero | PlayNeoNeuro.neocities.org
@lynnlandra.bsky.social
1052 Followers
216 Following
I'm making NeoNeuro! | https://playneoneuro.neocities.org/ | https://www.patreon.com/c/NeoNeuro | She/Her | BLM, ACAB, Free Palestine, Never Again | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🔞
Tags: #NeoNeuro #Cyberpunk #TTRPG #Writing
-
-
That part actually makes me legitimately angry
Toreador is one of the 4 core clans of the entire franchise
-
I dunno. I want so much to be excited for this game, I want so much to like it, my hype was initially through the roof. But the more I learn, the more disappointed I am.
I love the devs and I know they tried. I just don't feel anything from this and it's breaking my heart.
-
But even if that is their approach, just... this whole opening sequence gives me no emotions whatsoever.
In Bloodlines 1 you start the game by waking up dead and immediately getting staked by people who burst into the room. It's a "what the fuck?!" kind of shock, but at least that's a feeling.
-
this is intentional. Phyre is, after all, supposed to be very old, and obviously she's very dead, so perhaps that's what they're going for. Same with Fabien, he's dead too, and oldish even if not as old as Phyre. So it could be they're going for a "calm of the dead" approach. Which could be fine. ⏭️
-
wakes from decades of torpor to find she's got a Malk named Fabien in her head, they both react like they've seen a confusing episode of their favorite television show. It has the vibe of "hmm, this is weird, I wonder what happened," and they set off to go find out.
Again, to be kind, perhaps ⏭️
-
as being like "mold on fruit" and wishes he could puke. He threatens V, assaults her, slams her head into a wall because he's so horrified to be in this situation that he doesn't know how else to respond (he's a broken boy, our Johnny).
Meanwhile, in Bloodlines 2, what I see has no emotion. Phyre ⏭️
-
scene is intense, even traumatic, for both parties. V is terrified, screaming at Johnny as she feels her own body being partially controlled by another, desperately struggling to take the pills that will quiet him in her mind.
Johnny, for his part, is horrified to violence. He describes himself ⏭️
-
I always want to be kind, but this gameplay video of Bloodlines 2 is absolutely not doing it for me.
The most obvious comparison of Phyre/Fabien is V/Johnny, especially since it's so recent <<<Spoilers below for Cyberpunk 2077>>>
When V wakes up to find a terrorist in her head, the entire ▶️
-
I wish so much that we could hear what they're thinking in their little fuzzy heads