![]() The end of the world and being afflicted with a vampiric gift would naturally make anyone a bit dour, but being so unenthused and detached from emotion means there’s little to invest in from a narrative perspective. Even when voices are raised it’s often done with all the enthusiasm of a tired parent weakly telling their child to not smear bean juice on the wall for the thirtieth time. ![]() There’s simply too much dull talking from people who clearly don’t sound like they’re in the same room, and are disinterested in what they’re saying. A shame then, that it goes overboard and produces a largely uninteresting slice of anime melodrama in the process. On the surface, this is encouraging, as you can see the developer is fully committed to telling its own story in its own world. This is a surprisingly story-heavy game, with a whole lot of exposition about the world, the Vein, and the player’s past. The player is, of course, a mute with an unknown past who is freshly-introduced to this strange world of vampirism, and the story unravels that mystery as well as documenting the Vein’s existence and purpose in the world. The survivors of the apocalypse eke out a life for themselves, but the disease that scrubbed the planet near-clean of normality left some nasty after-effects in the form of monstrous mutations of some unlucky souls, and now the only way to stay alive is to embrace dark gifts that imbue Vein with otherworldly powers and an unnatural thirst for blood. Hidden among the ruins is a society of immortal Revenants known as ‘Vein’. Set in the near future, Code Vein exists in a world devastated by a mysterious disease that wiped out huge swathes of humanity. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite live up to its promising premise. So Code Vein, an anime-inspired action RPG with an interesting take on vampirism, slots into this genre quite comfortably. ![]() Demon’s Souls, and Dark Souls brought grim medieval fantasy worlds to stunning life, Nioh and Sekiro have a focus on Japanese demons and spirits, and Bloodbornegazes deeply into the inky abyss of cosmic horror. Horror seems to fit the Action RPG genre quite well.
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