After originally being planned for a 2019 release, Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York has now received a more solid launch date for Nintendo Switch. You'll be able to get your hands on it from 24th March.
The game is a single-player narrative experience set in the universe of tabletop RPG Vampire: The Masquerade's fifth edition, showcasing the struggle for power between two vampiric factions, the Camarilla and Anarchs. It launched on PC in December, but the upcoming console versions will contain additional elements such as new graphic assets (new character portraits and new location backgrounds), improved music, and "numerous fixes".
If you need to be brought up to speed on this one, feel free to check out this official description:
As a newly-fledged vampire in New York, you must learn what it means to be one of the Kindred in a huge, contemporary metropolis. On your way you’ll meet NPCs – other vampires, thin-bloods, ghouls, humans... and more. You will perform tasks that will put your humanity to the test and take part in a complex and often brutal struggle for power between the Camarilla and the Anarchs. You’ll build your Coterie and learn your undead companions’ deepest secrets… or see them abandon you. You’ll be able to use clan Disciplines to charm, sneak, intimidate or kill, and your choices will determine your path.
The game is primarily text-driven and story-oriented presented in visual novel style, it also includes branching dialogue and several additional elements that reflect the dark truths of being one of the Kindred like Disciplines (vampiric powers) that can help with quests. You will be able to choose your quest on the map-hub of New York, you will manage precious nigh time, create your own coterie and will have to control your hunger so not to let the Beast inside you to take control over your actions.
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My heart skipped a beat when I started reading the headline, almost thought buggy cult favourite Bloodlines was getting a Switch port.
Well, this looks neat too.
This is a classic! Nice
Edit: 😂 Nvm I thought this was "Bloodlines" as well...ah well. Hopefully if this does well we can get the real thing
Waiting for a review played to see how it plays out.
Also thought bloodlines
@SwitchForce
It's a decent game, but the endgame comes out of nowhere and feels really half baked.
The game just kinda ends.
@Bizzyb
Doubt there wil be a Bloodlines port.
The game is 16 years old, it would have happened by now.
Bloodlines 2 however.
This game looked intriguing to me back when it was released on PC. Maybe I'll give it a go, now that it's on Switch.
@KitsuneNight Yes a port/remaster of Bloodlines seems extremely unlikely. Particularly because Troika Games was forced to release it in an unfinished state, and the company went down a few months later. The version you can play now on PC is the result of years of work by a dedicated fan community, improving what was originally a highly ambitious but obviously unfinished game. If some company decided to port the game to a current platform, they would have a lot of work to do, to get the code to the level of polish achieved by the fan patches... and that's assuming the source code and other assets from the original development process are still available.
Time to play Spot the Old People: Anyone remember "Kindred: The Embraced"? It was a TV show on Fox based on Vampire: The Masquerade. It only ran for one season in 1996.
@JugOfVoodoo Yup! Absolutely nothing like the actual game (I played Vampire: The Masquerade since around ‘96), save for the names of the clans and a few characteristics. Cheesy as hell, but in the best way. Daedalus was my favourite, skulking in Prince Luna’s basement and drinking wine while he slashes pieces of priceless artwork lol. A top representative of Clan Nosferatu. Good times.
That feeling when, even as a native English speaker, you have to look up what the hell 'coterie' means...
@Iggy-Koopa You've got me beat. I was only 13 when the show was on. The only episode I remember is when Daedalus befriends the sick boy and wants the Prince to embrace him. My hometown didn't have a hobby or book shop so I hadn't heard of the RPG.
My dad loved vampire stuff. He really got into the show. When it was cancelled he joked that it was because "it got too close to the truth". (It was actually because the Prince's actor had died but we didn't know that.)
Dad died in 1999. A few years later my brother got "Bloodlines". When I read the instruction book I thought some things sounded familiar...
Looks like the developer learnt how to use PowerPoint and thought 'I can make a videogame'. Shame, it is a big step backwards from the old game people love.
Visual novel. No thanks.
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