Faisal Ghaffar 
Overview
Vampire: The Masquerade gained popularity in its tabletop game format, drawing players into the World of Darkness full of undead and other occult creatures and lore. All around beginning of the century, the game series saw early video game adaptations, but then went quiet. Vampire: The Masquerade, on the other hand, has recent times reemerged in the world of video games, and now gamers have a different moniker to check out: Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong.
Players in Game
After meeting with the Camarilla’s de facto ruler, Prince Hazel Iversen, players are assigned to each featured player, each with a different role to pursue. All 3 multiplayer characters are dispatched on separate missions to identify the cause and perpetrator of the attack, as well as whether any survivors remain to be rescued. The player controls the majority of the decisions, actions, and story progression, with multiple possible paths to take.
One of the game’s most vital points is that each area is riddled with secrets and mysteries waiting to be discovered, allowing the players to basic growth story and earn more experience points. However, players may leave as well as fail to complete the goal those who set out now to accomplish.
Characteristics of Players
While well almost all vampires in The World of Darkness are endowed with special abilities and immense power, each vampire clan has its own set of specialties. When an individual is ’embraced’ and transformed into a vampire, those who become a participant of the clan to which their Sire belongs and gain abilities as a result. The eldest playable character, Galeb, is a Ventrue, while Emem is a Toreador and Leysha is a Malkavian. Each clan provides the characters with a distinct benefit and added benefit, and they are assigned to start investigating correspondingly.
Emem’s clan empowers her to accomplish the objective set by her Prince through discussion, encouragement, and mobility, whereas Galeb’s gameplay focuses primarily on direct investigation as well as questioning of lesser minds. The Prince, on the other hand, values Leysha for her Malkavian curse, which enables her to have valuable insights into her environs and occasional visions of the past or prospective.
Functionality
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong has very little handholding, so players should expect to rely on their memory and wit. Because the game lacks a map, players must scrutinise every crevice to discover every secret. Because the character does not remember codes and passwords, the player should memorise or write them down when they are discovered. Whether this is a good or bad thing is primarily up to the player, like some people enjoy to be let loose and permitted to live independently, whereas others prefer a little more direction.
Conclusion
Generally speaking, there was a lot that this fans of Vampire: The Masquerade will enjoy, and the variety of skills and decisions to make should add a lot of replayability to the story. Newcomers to the franchise, on the other hand, would do well to read up on how the succession appears to work as well before getting started, people who lack expertise with boardgames and how that expertise is compensated and utilised.
