Good little game with promising future. I would suggest adding a sorted list of employee to know exactly how many of each type we have. Plus at the end of the demo, we just pass all our time on updating our feature because the loss of attractiveness is insane.

I will start by saying this game is clearly not a good sequel of the first game. That said, it lacks also a lot to be a good game. I'll review saying what's good and what's bad in not any particular order 'cause i'm bad a writting.

Firstly, there is no real exploration here, the city is only used as a way to go for point A, to C, to B, to A again, then C, then A, then B. It become extremely boring mid game to always run (because you can't use your vampiric sprint) from where to where. And you will run A LOT, i really mean A LOT. Specially in Fabien's phases.
There is no real side quest either, you have potentialy 30 or so side quests that consist of being the same 3 quest over and over, being : 1) Deliver/recover a package. - 2) Follow the scent and kill that person. - 3) this person is bad, go there to kill it.
and that's it. You do that, some say thanks, some don't even bother to talk to you. And then, you can do them AGAIN. It's like that after every ingame days or after some main quest.
Oh, there is also 3 collectible quests, so i guess that counts for "exploring the city".
But point to them, sprinting and jumping from roof to roof is pretty cool.

There is also only 3 type of human encounter: the angry one, that you have to insult for them to follow you in an alley
the sad one : that you have to insult to make them run away to feed from them in an alley
and the horny one : that follows you to an alley
They have each maybe two lines and story. The feeding is not as enjoyable as it was in the first one with how many blood you draw from the person, it just do an animation, stun them for a few seconds then they go back to their routine.

Story wise, it's kinda good, i like the story for now (i'm 2/3rd of the game completion), conversations are cool, i like how designed the characters are. I also like how they look at you during convo, made me feel a bit like the first game where they can roll their eyes or look at you from head to toes. I just find the nosferatu not really inspired. They look the same and not really in the same way that the first game introduced them.

But not Fabien nor his story. His commentary is awful i feel like i'm in a bad Noir movie. "Oh this is my journal, i always keep track of those harsh night of work" "I wish i could still drink alcohol, that's what i miss the most in my unfortunate state". He's really lame, and a really bad detective too. His memory phases are AWFUL, it consists of him doing remark on EVERYTHING and then RUNNING to somewhere to listen to more remark about everything, then RUNNING AGAIN to somewhere else and talk to someone (after he commented about everything around him) and then RUN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN (and i don't even exaggerate here they had to put a x2 pass time to be less boring than it already is).
I used to love the Malkavian clan, but he's the most bad written of them all. I wait for the ending to know more about why he's there, but i wish he wasn't.

Personally i like the DA here, I find the graphics really good, the city is not ugly but is really EMPTY.

There is no car because they had to close a road. So the entire city (consisting of like 20 people) has to walk ? I don't understand why there is no car, it just feel so so empty and not alive. And, just to be picky : all planes are down due to the weather, yet you hear helicopter and plane going up in the sky. (but you don't see them obviously).

Stealth is not a really good option but works sometimes still. Combat are... pretty boring in the end. You can use up to 4 power during the fight then need to eat up to 3 or 4 people to regain your power. It become less of a problem with the La Sombra perk that let you feed on people mid fight without being killed but until then you just hope you don't die while feeding mid combat to be able to launch one of your power again. You can only use your fists, and use telekinesis to grab props to threw at enemy or gun to unload at once on someone. Parry is not really effective against multiple enemy, heavy attack is not usable against multiple enemy bc being hit stop the animation. So you end up spamming left clic and evade back and forth. Some powers are fun to use though.

If there was a mixed review i would put that. The game is not BAD per say. It's just badly implemented and absolutly incomplete.
Sorry for the long post.

Childhood game so my opinion is not really relevant but it's one of my fav of the series, an awesome transition after Daggerfall with lots of content. Lot of mod to modernize the game, even ultrawide support.

Good idle game, even if idle is not the right term, it has enough different feature to keep a daily/weekly routine of task to do. Playing it since a few years now and the game had some major improvement. It's a game that is free and doesn't require you to put any dime in it if you don't want to. The last update did bring a few achievement of getting stuff from the shop to get it, but i believe the passive earning of premium currency is enough if you wait the time needed to acquire them.
Myself i just bought the VIP back in the early game to support the dev but a few years in without any more buy.

If you like idle game with side stuff to do, this is the one for you, the continuously updates make it so you still have something to yearn for even you were maxed before the update.

Tried from the website and with the steam account, i have an old SE account which i use for Hitman and cie so i made the huge mistake of using it on steam, and now it says i have another service account and had to see in the mog service thing, but in the mog service it says i have no service account and never had. Contacted the customer service, they asked me to create a new account, which is impossible for steam now (they said to me i could delete some file in my document folder to change the account but.. no)
Huge waste of time, both for me and the customer service. Worst free trial PR i have ever seen in all mmo service.
I litteraly lost the will to test the game.

NB : i probably played the beta in 2013 even if i have absolute no memory of it. Could be why nothing work

One of the best RPG of the last decade.

I recommend it but it has a lot of flaws.
Clunky cinematics, NPC teleporting themselves out of scenery. After 50 hours playtime the game started lagging, the time was slowed and every animation was delayed and 5/6/7 seconds longer than usual. Very put me out of it when it happen unfortunately. (restarting the game doesn't really work, skipping day or sometime going in and out of an interior can work)

The storyline is.. surprising for this type of game but cool overall. The 2/3rd of the game was pretty smooth with quest almost everyday guiding you and providing you goals to go forward.
When you've done almost all side content, the game consist of sleeping to trigger main events. (after 70h+ for me.) So i'm starting to get tired of it even tho' i have still a few things to do.

The game can be really immersive if you're into this kind of game. Socializing and housing is nice.
Still wasn't able to romance the character of my choice after 120h playtime. I don't know why but the person was constantly refusing the necklace even tho the NPC is indicated as a possible bachelor. Since the character is used in main story, maybe it'll change in a few in-game days.
I played a few of Portia but here i felt more guided (in a good way). Main mission in portia was like : firstly build a bus stop, then go upgrade all your workshop and tools then go build the bridge.
Here it's more build this, then this but it need a new ressource that you can find here, and that allows you to start upgrading gears and workshop without it to be instantly needed to continue. Making you feel like you're the one choosing to upgrade stuff to go faster, provide new things etc.

I backed the game and played a few during alphas and betas so i'm a little disappointed to feel like the game is unpolished at this state.

I don't know if i'll come back to this game but still, it kept me busy for 125hours so it made its part of entertaining me.

GOTL

The game goes through a lot and is a real experience. In my opinion, it goes perfectly through how people can feel in depression, how they seek for help and how they can fail/nor succeed (in this case the "nor" is important) depend of solitude or friends. The story is really well written, it is both shoking and interesting, picturing a whole panel of emotion between confort, fear and dark ideas.

Without spoiling this game is amazing in his own prospect and i recommend it without any doubt.
+ all soundtrack made by Warmer are AMAZING.

Trigger warning : this game contains really realistic and deep thoughts and needs to be read and seen as such. It shows how deep and hard things can be, but shows it so well that it can be a bit overwhelming.

Ok there are some buggy stuff like the subtitles in every starting episode. I understand it can be a total immersive break for people who don't understand english. But this is just the best game ever. I played it like it was the first time, I didn't felt like anything was out of date or anything.

Maybe i didn't cared enough but i retrieved the feels i felt playing the original one. This is the best LiS, the remaster kinda made the texture up to date but the game is still price-less.

I just hope that every LiS would have that much impact. Unfortunatly BtS was just a joke, 2 was okay-ish, and didn't played true colors yet but I don't feel like any game would be as good as this one.

Maybe we're supposed to be that pragmatic and say that the subtitle bug is the worse, but I'm sure it's gonna be taken care of in a next patch. After that, it will just be an opportunity for anyone to play that gem (-again).