Vampyr - PS4 >> The End

And that's the moment I reach the final of one of my favourite games ever.

After beating the final boss in Vampyr we get to the last chapter of the story where we tighten the final straws and see which of the 4 different finals we get, based upon our choices during the game.

It seems there are 2 bad endings and 2 good ones. I got the best one from those 2 good finals.

Vampyr was one of those games that after playing it I got the feeling of not knowing what play next, knowing them won't be as good as it was.

And I was a bit orphan of what to really play and enjoy myself until I got to know Sinking City. Which I'll address in the next post.

But for now, just go and get Vampyr and play it!

Vampyr - PS4 >> Final Boss

And I'm approaching the end of Vampyr game and I cannot tell you enough what a great journey it has been.

I got to the final boss yesterday and beat it on the first try!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

I'm around level 30, mainly because I've completed all main quest tasks and all the side quests and never turned a NPC into a vampire or killed them.

But even if I could have reached a higher level it doesn't matter because I have encountered other bosses than seamed more difficult to beat. And why so!? The level or the powers you have are important, for sure, but it's the strategy you use that decides it all.

You have to know the enemy to use the best elements into your favour.

That's why, even if the final boss are in fact two bosses you can beat them if you have beaten the previous ones.

First you have to fight Harriet Jones who transformed into something similar to her daughter with that crazy Gadget arm.

Then you face your *mother* the Red Queen, the manifestation of the mother of all vampires which seems to take this form every now-and-then.

If you define a strategy and keep with it, without trying to accelerate hits and using too much power attacks, you can win easily.


But if you were expecting to end the game here, you still have a couple more dialogues to go to try and understand the reaction of Lady Ashbury before.


I haven't enjoy so much playing a game and discovering its story in a long time, maybe since I've finished Breath of Fire IV for de original PlayStation.

Vampyr - PS4 >> Killing Mary

I think I just reached the middle of the game. I started chapter 4 in the game, right after having to kill an other boss. But only this time the boss was Jonathan own sister, Mary, whom he bites right at the beginning of the game.

Each passing hour I play I love this game even more. Really, what was I afraid before buying the game!? lol

I tried fighting Mary but the couple first times I couldn't pass the few strikes, so I went a did some other side quests and evolved so I was around 20 XP level when I tried again fighting Mary and did it. Just have to keep moving, and biting here and there to have enough blood power to use some better vampire tricks and...be patient. She will fall to her knees...

And that's a great scene. The dialogue between brother and sister is something that kept resonating into my memory since then. So sad...

But then Jonathan go and visit Lady Ashbury and he seems a bit happier to share his pain with her. And that's the start for a new chapter in the game where you discover something about Lady Ashbury...she adopted a girl, a mortal girl, that knows all about her being a vampire.

This game is a surprise on every corner.

Sorry, now I shall go back and play a bit more.

Bloodborne - PS4 >> The Father Gascoigne encounter

In a world connected with Internet is quite impossible to play Bloodborne and not know Father Gascoigne right from the start, from that moment you make the first search.

And he is only the second boss in the game!

But he's like the image of the difficult of the game. It's like, like written and said everywhere, if you can beat him, you can beat anything from then on.

Don't know yet if that's quite so, but for sure after defeating him I got to the next two lamps in a row without much difficult...But have yet to face other boss. Only then I can see if Father Gascoigne was truly the top of them or not.

I think it took me like half a dozen times to beat him and after that, for sure, I screamed like my team had just won the championship. Because that's what this game gives you. It gives you that accomplish feeling for you have studied the enemy right and used your resources to defeat the enemy like you were a professional. Even if you are not a hardcore gamer.

People who gets this love the Souls Games. Like I do.

Vampyr - PS4

I've always loved the myth...So I was drawn to this game the moment I've seen in around.

But then I committed that somehow dangerous action of going and check the game on YouTube and of course there are people who don't like it and those were the top videos for some scrolls...so I pushed the buy for some time.

But then I decided to let myself go.

And I did well.

We play as Jonathan Reid. A doctor returned from WWI front and newly reborn as a vampire.

The story starts right there and with some crucial things happening to him that made me hold my breath!

And that's because even if the characters and story might seem sometimes a bit stiff, it touches you in a way you're not quite ready to admit at first to yourself.

You start to care for Jonathan and the NPCs around in a blink of an eye.

And yep, the game might be a bit clumsy here and there, but that's one vector that actually pulls you even more into the game. Because like the people it pictures in the story, that are not perfect, far from that, the game isn't as well.

You have lots of dialogues to navigate through. Some options are not available right at bat but only after you talk with other NPCs and unlock the hints about the characters. It works a bit like the Telltale Games a bit. And when you decide for a way you block some of the hints in the hints tree. So you might want to return again to the game after finishing and trying other ways to play it.

Besides talking you actually got to play as a true vampire and kill people. The militia trying to catch the vamps, or other vampires like the Skals (vampires lower in their food chain) and other bosses like beasts and ultra powerful vamps that use their smoke screen tricks to make you think they are one place when they are already right behind you...

And there is where this game try, and kinda gets near, the famous Souls Games.

The combat system is similar in that you have like a left-hand/right-hand weapon choice and some possible combos which will consume your stamina bar. Like the very important dodge feature. This consumes more stamina than anything else and the dodge is that smoke thingy that it's quite a fun effect to watch in combat.

Of course you can upgrade not only the weapons but also the vampire tricks to make you more powerful.

You also have a vamp-sense that can be activated and you see everything in grey around you and only the heart beating inside everyone's chest and their veins is the only colour you picture besides the grey.

That's a sight!

You can also follow blood trails in this mode. But one thing that in other games this mode allows also is to acknowledge other interactive points around you, like collectibles to gather, but here they don't appear. It would be cool too.

I know I was in love with Yharnam and Bloodborne...but after starting playing Vampyr I cannot stop. I want to know more, about Jonathan and even about the strange NPCs around him.

I'm in love with the ambience, the story, the vampire myth and powers...and Jonathan.

Bloodborne - PS4 >> The first Boss encounter

And just like that I faced my first boss ever in Bloodborne and won the fight!

AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT!

I still cannot believe it!

Cannot get the stupid smile off my face!

Just yesterday I was reading some opinions about the game and found this one here from Games In Focus and it's just like what I was trying to explain in my last post about the game.

I've always was kinda 'afraid' of the so called hardcore-ultra-difficult-games that needed lots of try-and-error hours spent. But maybe it was all just because I've never found a game like Bloodborne before.

The game was pushing me to it, and the moment I started it I was addicted. I'm day-dreaming about it throughout my day! But not addicted to that degree to which I cannot play anything else, but that's a story for an other post.

The thing is that I knew I'd die a lot. And I did, to the extent I thought I'd be killing the same enemies for the rest of my game-life.

Until yesterday.

When I've tried to take the gamepad and tried to put into action all the things I've been listening to in the videos I've been watching about the game. Mainly is to think outside the box the games for the past decades have put the gamers into.

We got a bit numb.

Not that I'm saying that games like Dragon Quest or Ni No Kuni are not great, because they are! But those are in a category of their own.

But I know that even if I loved the Tomb Raider reboot, and the way they deal with the new scheme of context-actions, it kinda helps you out in many ways that ends up numbing you to other games. Specially to games that a mere enemy right at the beginning of the game kills you with a couple of strikes.

We are not ready to think outside the box any more.

So that's what I've tried yesterday, like I said. I've tried to have fun, and simply let it go.

And so I ended up in the right place. Right where I knew I'd find a boss but, also thanks to the notes other gamers leave behind in the game (I thank the PS+ subscription just for that) I entered the fight ready to try it no matter what.

And when I knew it, I beat the Cleric Beast, the first boss of the game, like it was nothing.

But it was. It was a big deal!

It finally made me realize, that yep, I'll keep dying a lot, like I did just next because I fell from a great high and didn't see the couple of enemies just right behind me, but I just have to keep on dancing.

But that's the game! And that's the fun of it.

I just have to do it. To have fun with it. And waltz.

Bloodborne - PS4

There are just a few games that burn themselves onto your skin like a tattoo you'll forever display with pride.


Those games are like your favourite books, TV shows or films.

Bloodborne is one of those.

I knew Bloodborne was a Souls game. So I was not quite 'turned' to go and buy it. But then I could not stop looking at the game. So I did it. And finally bought the Hit version of it.

And I got prepared to die.

And I died, and keep on dying a lot.

But I don't mind. I just keep on coming back and playing the same enemies over and over again.

Why!? Because next time I'll advance a bit more and the moment you manage to discover a new short-cut, you win that battle you've been losing for the past 10 or more tries, you feel like on top of the world!

And the Bloodborne world is a beauty.

The details are infinite like you get lost in them each time you pass by.

And Bloodborne is the only game nowadays that made me watch more videos on YouTube besides the walk-through kind.

I've been watching many dissertations, thesis and other philosophical videos about the game than every other game before. It also helps that I didn't have YouTube or even the internet when I used to play other consoles...So yeah!

And why I watch the videos!? Because they remind me of the old times when we used to discuss the games for the games. And that can only happen because the game appeals to a more adult audience but also a kind of different hardcore gamers, besides the FPS hardcore gamers. It's a mix from the old days Arcade gamers that tried to pass those platform/RPGs games that ate our coins like the Cookie Monster.

I've seen people caring for the game like I've seen in a long time.

And I'm in love with the game. That much that I don't mind being killed all the time and even just watching other people playing.