Vampire: The Masquerade – Shadows of New York Review: Better Suited as a Comic Book – Screen Rant

Vampire: The Masquerade- Shadows of New York tells an engaging story, but suffers from not having any compelling choices or gameplay elements.

The world of Vampire: The Masquerade is a massive and sprawling one, but Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York gives a smaller and more concise view of the game's environment. Rather than giving players a choice of which character and vampire clan they want to play as in Bloodlines 2, theyare instead put in the shoes of the newly Embraced and eternally moody Julia as she attempts to understand the new world she finds herself in. While developer Draw Distance presents players with a fascinating storyline, the game usually feels more like a book than a video game, and often to its detriment.

The story opens up a few months after the events of Coteries of New York, with main character Julia working a dead-end job as a freelance journalist for a dying news organization. Suddenly, her entire world begins to fall apart as she loses her job and has her name blacklisted by every newspaper in New York City. Julia eventually discovers that this was ploy by a local vampire clan, the Lasombra, who decided to test her and see if she was able to take the stress of losing her entire life. After passing the test she is turned into a vampire and thrust into the seedy underbelly of vampire society in the city.

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After being turned, the game fast forwards a bit and shows that Julia has slowly begin to adjust to her new life as the sole representative of the Lasombra clan in New York. After a local vampire warlord of sorts is murdered one night, the higher ups of vampire society decide to send the former investigative journalist out to discover who was involved. There are many twists and turns throughout the story as choices are made for Julia and it is discovered which characters may be able to shed light on her current situation.

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