Review Bloodlines reviewed at Jolt

[Spazmo]

Tags: Troika Games; Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

<a href=http://www.jolt.co.uk>Jolt</a>'s <a href=http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=3020>review</a> of Troika's Vampire RPG is up. The score comes to <b>8.2/10</b>.<blockquote>The underdeveloped combat is merely the most serious of a litany of other complaints though. There are typographic errors, and the game’s frame rate can become distractingly jerky, even on our test machine which runs the superior-looking HL2 with ease. The AI of enemy characters in combat is also poor, ruining the stealth options open to you. The city of LA also has a strangely point and click adventure feel about it – there are always the same few people hanging around, and so the game word fails to convince as a living, breathing city.</blockquote>Well, to be fair, it's a vampire game, so living and breathing wouldn't quite be right.
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[dojoteef]

I don't think the reviewer played past Santa Monica. All the screenshots are from Santa Monica. So I don't think it's a well rounded review. Next problem is this quote from the end of the review:

Instead we’re left with a still very good game that will prove to be a satisfying purchase for fans of vampires, or simply anyone bored by dull traditional Japanese-style RPGs.

Traditional, huh?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

What? What is he talking about by traditional styled Jap RPGs? This is an American game made by a company in the good ol USA. Japs shouldn't even be brought up. Why?

 

[Sol Invictus]

He probably mentioned it because it's a fact that the market (console in partuclar) has been inundated in nothing but JRPGs for the past 3 years or so with very few breaks in between for regular RPGs like KOTOR.

 

[LlamaGod]

I think he means that Japanese RPGs are the standard and Troika is going against it with Bloodlines or something.

 

[dojoteef]

He probably mentioned it because it's a fact that the market (console in partuclar) has been inundated in nothing but JRPGs for the past 3 years or so with very few breaks in between for regular RPGs like KOTOR.

Bloodlines is a PC only game, I don't see the connection. I'm confused. Oh and btw, that website design they have going on is horrible.

 

[Screaming_life]

i can't even think of any Japanese-style RPGs that have come out this..... well i just can't think of any!

 

[deus]

I think he meant a "traditional" Japanese RPG like Final Fantasy as opposed to a "non-traditional" Japanase RPG like Romancing Saga 3. Confusions like this make me think everyone should speak lojban.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

And he wasn't comparing BL to a traditional Japanese RPG in the first place. He was merely implying that BL was better than those in a "omg it's another Final Fantasy title! here comes the orgasm!" anti-fanboy kind of way.