A game that tries, however loosely, to recapture the atmosphere of playing Troika's Bloodlines, I guess? The problem with Paradox's games is that they've completely dropped the comedy aspect that made Bloodlines' writing bearable and turned into CW shows with obnoxious pretentious dialogue/jargon. Sure, there were tons of dark emo goth moments in BL but it was also broken up by black comedy, campiness, overacting, witty/sarcastic quips, and general self-awareness of their own absurdity. For example, the journals written by doomed people included them writing "aaah!" while they were being assaulted even though that makes no sense (obliquely referencing Monty Python no less). Then there was one sequence where you watched charlatan ghost hunters (their journals outright state they stage the hauntings they record) get butchered by a real monster years before Ghost Hunters and parodies thereof (like Grave Encounters) were even trendy. Little touches like that.
Never forget Assassin's Creed: Unity.
That's a complete mischaracterization of her review. She wasn't complaining that the vampires were evil, she was complaining that the human characters were unlikeable assholes and the vampires were almost entirely devoid of any sympathetic or tragic qualities (aside from a certain spoiler key plot point) to make the jerk human characters look better by comparison. Also, she criticized Carpenter for saying in an interview that his vampires would "eat Buffy for breakfast" (paraphrasing) when Buffy vamps are more or less identical in viciousness to his depiction.
