Fantasy I feel like you're only looking at one side.
I'm mostly just shilling for one side only, precisely because I'm looking at both sides, and I like werewolves a ton more.
But I mentioned some vampire stuff I find cool right in this thread too. Upir Z Feratu movie is truly good IMO, it was not a joke. Even though it's the car that is a vampire. Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut aka The Moon, Laika, And The Nosferatu was also mentioned and is also rather solid, even if animation feels cheap now and then.
Stuff that I haven't mentioned yet... There's always Blade. He is half-vampire, as far as I remember, and he kicks ass.
And if we will include games where vampires are antagonists - wooh... Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi, The Elder Scrolls and Witcher games at the very least.
Actually, in The Elder Scrolls you can be a vampire along the way too. Or a werewolf. Frankly, in all those games I prefered to be neither, but I did pick a ring that transformed me into werewolf back in Bloodmoon.
Fantasy Vampyr is on my list of games to play but has been for a very long time regrettably.
I do not feel much inclination to play games with vampire protagonists, and I ignored most of them, but somehow for some reason Vampyr is the one I actually did play and complete.
I honestly can't recommend it. Every pro the game has is not without a con. I'll try to be short.
The plot: the pseudo-scientific elements feel good, but the moment it all goes into the realm of ancient entities... meh. The game doesn't feel like explaining anything to us, and at the same time all these ancient powers do not feel unexplainable enough to be counted as a lovecraftian horror-beyond-human-understanding kind. So all you want to say to these ancient entities is something along the lines of "fuck off, dude", and the last boss dies so fast, it only proves the point. Our protagonist is supposed to be a special cookie, but 10-15 men with guns could've done the job just as fine.
The dialogue: the voice acting is good, the lines are sometimes thought provoking even. Pericles and Agamemnon Bakers are awesome characters. And yet, alas, sometimes it just doesn't feel like dialogue. The way it is written, there's way too often no connection between the lines. These are just two monologues, these characters do not hear each other.
Speaking of which, there's a power named Mesmerize, which is supposed to allow you control humans at your will, but you will only really use it to enter people's houses. And no matter how much info you will find about other people, you won't be able to make them do anything: nor via your charisma, nor via dialogue choices, nor via vampire powers. The only way to affect the world is to kill people, and the only way to kill people is to suck their blood.
The moment you kill at least one, the best ending is closed from you. Which makes zero sense, since among those people is literal Jack The Ripper, victim of the vampire who begs you to kill her, et cetera. Not to mention that actually killing people and seeing how the world changes, how the characters act after you kill someone they were close to - it is probably the most interesting thing in the whole game. And you have to abandon it, if you want to get the best ending.
I have no idea if you cannot kill named characters with a revolver rather than your sucking power. Not even the serial killer is allowed to be killed. Bollocks. And it makes even less sense, since you can suck unnamed NPCs until you suck the whole London dry, and the game won't give a damn. It also kinda hurts the character, since you literally cannot get the actual bloodless walkthrough (every now and then the game locks you in an arena and forces you to kill people, so don't bother wasting experience on stealth skills). And the NPCs are quite polite, always giving you a couple of warnings before attacking.
Personal pain: I spent quite an effort to save a priest during a certain fight, and the game didn't acknowledge it anyhow at all. The priest simply stayed on the background during cutscene, and then lost his plot armor and dissolved in the RAM.
If there's anything that is undeniably good about Vampyr, it is the atmosphere. The London that is broken by the plague and vampires feels really darn good.
Alternatively, I can provide you a link to my video, which not only talks about the stuff I just wrote under the spoiler, but also shows you some tricks to fix it, if you still want to play it: click
Alternatively, there's also Yahtzee's video. To my surprise, as I only watched his review couple weeks ago, he actually made mostly the same points, and he is way more fun to listen to than me: click
Fantasy Having played the werewolf trial game has it altered your views?
Frankly, I did not get this moment. How could a cool game about a werewolf alter my views?
Either way, since I'm writing in this thread... Yeah, Old Thiess: The Werewolf’s Trial. Cool indie shortie which you can grab for the grand price of free, so why not do it?
You can play as the werewolf and kill demons. What more do you need?
It is based on a rather known historical account, and I like the way the hell is represented in this game too. It actually takes the scripture pretty literally. Children who were too young to be baptized? Heaven denied. People who lived before christianity even was a thing? Tough luck, fella.
It's rather classic, I haven't seen in it since Dante's Inferno. Very unusual for our times.
That game aside, I also played Savage Halloween. I actually wanted to record a video for the Halloween, but life got in the way... and that's why I haven't posted anything about it in this thread too. But the game is actually cool, and you can play as either vampire or werewolf. Or invite your friend for a couch party, and do have a blast with both.
It comes from an indie studio that made Biolab Wars, which I also liked, but Savage Halloween feels bigger and better. It is literally about 3 times bigger than Biolab Wars, it runs smoother, it has a mode for 2 players, it has better music, prettier visuals, so on.
Also, the three characters in the Savage Halloween are actually given their own stats, and the vampire is probably most interesting of the trio, since she is short on health, but in return she can fly and heal herself... or her allies. If there are two players, someone just gotta take the vampire.
