It’s a game where draining an enemy kicks off a cool cinematic takedown, where your awesome sci-fi gas mask is replaced by an another, even more awesome devil gas mask that you use, along with monster parts growing out of your armor, to tear into an enemy, drinking its “ichor” fuel your magic. The act of getting new powers to use in combat involves a walk down a literal “memory lane”, watching voiced tableaus of a companion or a stranger’s tragic and affecting backstory. Amnesiacs, restorative hot springs, mysterious strangers with silver hair and golden eyes, and misused English terms abound. It’s a world that, unlike Souls games, where most narrative and world-building details are left unstate, the whole narrative is out-and-proud in its TV anime-style delivery. This is a world where the vampiric apocalypse hit hard enough to reduce the world to curiously arranged piles of rubble and craters, but somehow Tokyo’s hottest goth and visual-kei haute couture stores survived long enough to gift everyone left a pretty rad clubbing outfit. In those respects, more stark differences emerge.Ĭode Vein is exactly the sort of game that won’t let silly things like “coherence” and “making sense” get in the way of its constant attempts to be awesome and over-the-top as often as possible. In terms of its actual structure, and the What-Do-You-Do-In-It that defines most games, Code Vein is very Dark Souls.Īnd yet, I can concede that tone, narrative, storytelling, and the nebulous nitty-gritty of “combat feel” can and do matter quite a lot, not just to individuals, but to the more qualitative task of deciding whether a person who liked (or hated) Dark Souls might like (or hate) Code Vein. This isn’t to say I retract the claims I made previously. And it’s in those differences of standard that a player can decide whether Bandai Namco’s vampiric action-RPG can live up to its clearest inspirations.Ĭode Vein (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows) That’s what happened when I put up my initial take on Code Vein last week.Īnd just what did I learn? Mainly, I learned that there’s a surprisingly diverse range of opinions on just what is most important in determining how much – or how little – a given game is like Dark Souls. We posted a bunch of gameplay clips of it right here.When reviewing a game, it’s a given that one would play the game being reviewed to learn more about it, but it’s decidedly less common that just posting a game review would make for a similar learning experience. If you’ve played the God Eater franchise, it should be familiar to you given Shift also developed it. If you haven’t picked it up yet, Code Vein is at a decent 70 on Metacritic currently, and it’s about a post-apocalyptic dystopian setting with a vampire theme, played a from a third-person perspective inspired by the Dark Souls series. But once they do, we’ll be sure to update the post. Fixed character sliding without input above 60FPS.*If you’ve already encountered this issue, you can now interact with the lever again. Fixed levers that sometimes doesn’t trigger the doors or can’t be interacted with using the right key.*If you’ve already encountered this issue, you can now re-enter the boss area to progress. Fixed multiplayer immediately after defeating the last boss in Cathedral of the Sacred Blood causing player character unable to re-enter the boss area to progress the story.Note: Bandai Namco has now official revealed the list of changes in the Code Vein update 1.03 patch notes: According to Bandai Namco, it fixes a number of bugs and issues, and that’s it. Code Vein update 1.03 is now out, and is just at 150MB. If you’re playing Shift and Bandai Namco Studios’ vampire action game Code Vein, you might have noticed a super small patch worm its way out.
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