![]() ![]() You can level up each of the three player characters in Swansong with detectivey skills, social skills and vampire powers. One of my favourite things about The World Of Darkness is that vampires come in different flavours according to their Clan (which is what accounts for, basically, your character class). The job is to find out what happened to Jason, retrieve five damning reports that Jason was working on, and remove any otherwise suspicious evidence of, you know, vampires before the (slightly janky) cops bag it and tag it. You turn up at a locked room murder at Jason's flat. Jason is a human and kind of a financial fixer and info broker for Galeb's boss. The preview focsued on the second scene of the game, playing the 300-year-old Galeb looking for a man named Jason Moore. The events of Swansong kick off with an attack at a swanky vampire Clan party in Boston, and you play as three different bloodsuckers dealing with the fallout in different ways. ![]() The upshot was that I got to play through the level twice, giving me a broader sampler of all the different ways you can approach it. I don't think it was a problem with the game itself, or anything any human hands were doing, but in the end it was decided the best solution was to let me have another crack at it later on. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but the software doing the remote link seemed dead set against my attempts to play the game. ![]() But if it had gone well, I probably wouldn't be as excited for Swansong as I now am. For various reasons, however, my preview went terribly. I had one of these for Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong last week, an upcoming thrillery-puzzley-investigation-RPG set in The World Of Darkness universe (aka all them vampy games), by Big Bad Wolf, who did The Council. It usually works very well, with the added benefit that I don't have to get on a plane anywhere. I'm going to jerk back the curtain a little bit here, and I hope the devs will forgive me - it'll turn out okay, I promise! You see, since the pandemic happened everyone has discovered you can do hands-on game previews using remote streaming, provided all parties have a decent enough internet connection. ![]()
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