Recent reviews by Gay Dracula

Unrelentingly bleak. Loved it.

little caesar's tastes so good when you don't got a ♥♥♥♥♥ in your ear tellin you it's nasty

Weirdly calming and comfy-spooky vampire rpg. I liked it a lot! I really connected with the world and characters. Minor bugs aside, I only wish I could have spent more time with some of the characters.

Really fun vampire game with cute castle builing. Excited to start fresh with the new patch!

Oh my god this thing came out of nowhere and immediately became my favorite VN. Eight's my fav. Likely going to go back and hit the other two routes just as soon as I can. Everyone I know needs to play this so I can yap at 'em about it. Just, really fantastic stuff.

This game is my Deus Ex. It starts out so flexible and reactive that I remain in awe of it to this day. Santa Monica remains a highlight of video games history. However, it falls off slowly over time and finally collapses right at the end of the Hollywood segment. This isn't to say the whole game is bad after that point, especially not with the Plus Patch, and in fact I had a lot of fun with the end game. The Anarch ending is my favorite.

But this game, like all of Troika's offerings, is unfinished. It's buggy as hell. There's a reason folks don't typically talk about Chinatown except to bring up the racism inherent to its writing and character performances. Yukie the Demon Hunter is straight up and down the most cringe thing I've encountered in a video game.

And yet... My disappointments with this game don't define my feelings for it. I can't help but love it. It sparked a lifelong obsession with vampire myth and the Vampire: the Masquerade roleplaying game. I'm constantly on the look out for something that does it better, but this and Nihilistic Software's Redemption are as good as it gets for now. (Choice of Games's stuff is preddy good but it's just not the same.) If dumb fun, one of the best voice casts in history, and a big personality are enough to get you through a story, you'll love this. It is so charismatic and funny and a surprising amount of it holds up extremely well. But it lacks depth. It lacks the emotional and philosophical appeal of its literary inspirations. It's a pretty good action movie. It has left me hungry for someone to do it better for a full two decades. The game itself is worth less to me than the dreams it inspired. But oh, what dreams they are.

Extremely solid 7/10 vampire jrpg. Yeah, it plays like a diablo clone at times, and yeah it's wearing vampire the masquerade's skin, but this here's a good ol fashioned kill god and save the princess plot. It ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rocks. Great atmosphere, wonderful aesthetics. I genuinely think this is the better of the two classic Vampire: the Masquerade video games. I haven't played around with the multiplayer or any of the tons of mods out there but I'd sure like to. Also, runs great on Steam Deck for no good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason. Like the control mapping is shockingly good. This game is more compatible with the Steam Deck than it is with Windows 11.

I'm a big fan of Wadjet Eye's catalogue. Between their very fun first-party titles like the Blackwell pentalogy (That's a word, right?) and what they've picked up to publish like the post-apocalyptic sci-fi masterpiece Primordia, I've spent a lot of time with them. I find that they generally fall short in one or two ways but provide a generally cohesive experience that iterates on classical adventure game design without getting obtuse or irritating.

There is no falling short in Unavowed. Sure, some of the puzzles are a bit simple. But the fact that they're relatively intuitive and have multiple solutions more than makes up for that. It has a tendency to, despite being decidedly a classic point-and-click adventure, prioritize player choice and consequence like an old style RPG. The closest thing I can compare it to is Sierra's Quest for Glory series, only less lethal. In fact, it's not lethal at all. Failure states are a very simple 'oop, try again' situation, planting you back into action just before the mistake in a flash of white light. What shines is the story. Clearly inspired by things like The Dresden Files or the Old World of Darkness, this is one of the most well-executed urban fantasy stories I've seen in video games. And that's something I am positively HUNGRY for, lemme tell ya. Outside of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Harebrained Schemes' latter two Shadowrun games, I haven't had something follow through on that promise in a way I've been satisfied with ever, really. Unavowed scratches that itch. It's a pretty good story that handles the broad majority of its subject matterr well. Which means, for a video game, it's exceptional. Check it out.

Pounding in your head's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ looking for the brainless sucker dark thing hiding in the mirror. The rapture is demanding, gunflash commanding: get on your knees and pray.

What a game of video. Very fun, extremely from the heart. Enemy AI's a bit goofy and exploitable most of the time but that's basically fine. Characterization is strong, cutscenes are well directed, voice acting's incredible. The atmosphere is kind of unmatched, honestly. A gripping and heartbreaking story of abuse and hurt people who hurt people. Fun vampires. Ancient mummies. I think I saw a werewolf in that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bathroom. Levels are old school. Like, real old school. Like mazes with colored keys and doors. DOOM ♥♥♥♥. But, see, that works for me. I like a little BLUE KEY action in my shooty game. Anyway, if Vibes are for you, like they are for me, the main thing you look for in a video game, I can't recommend El Paso, Elsewhere enough.

Good boy.

Mindblowing. Not just my favorite survival horror game: SIGNALIS is my new favorite adventure game eve made. Aesthetically perfect, artistically dense. Replayable again and again as the scenes shift and contort to take on new meaning and endings add consequence. Most beautiful game since the original NIER.