Vampyr

If you like biting, clawing, sucking & slashing then this game is definitely right up your alley! But be careful which dark 19th century London alley you venture into though... because not all is what it seems. On a more serious note this game is a masterwork when it comes to creating a dark story driven atmospheric game.

The music, the voice acting, the backstory of all the protagonists, citizen quests, vampire lore & each district with it's distinctive feel all contribute to that. It's a very grim, dark atmospheric game but with a deep tragic story behind it if you take the time to read all the collectibles and finish all the main & citizen quests.

The game had great visuals and voice acting, but gameplay was awkward and repetitive. Navigation was frustrating.

This is a STORY DRIVEN GAME! NOT AN ACTION DRIVEN GAME! First of all, Vampyr was a much better game than I initially thought it would be. It's very, very slow-paced, so it requires a lot of patience. You're going to be talking to people A LOT. But that doesn't mean it's bad. Some people won't have the patience for it, but I did. I very much enjoyed the voice acting, so listening to tons of conversational dialogue was not much of an issue for me. The pacing of the game is definitely something to mention in any sort of review of the game, though.

The primary characters, particularly Lady Ashbury and Jonathan, are definite highlights, bringing depth to the story. The voice acting and atmosphere really immerse you in the world, making it a great experience for fans of vampire lore.

The story, while not perfect, kept me interested, especially with the surprising reveal of Jonathan's maker. The game also lets your choices matter, affecting the outcome and adding a layer of depth to the experience.

One minor gripe is the repetitive combat and the awkward romance subplot. However, these are small issues in an otherwise solid game.
I'd rate it about a 7.5 out of 10. It's not a perfect game by any means, but it was interesting with good voice acting, good graphics, and relatively fun gameplay. The story was fairly decent, but it's the script, in my opinion, that is one of its strongest components. Most of the dialogue is so well-written. It's funny because even though I say the script is done so skillfully.
. Despite its flaws, Vampyr is a game that offers a unique experience worth trying out.

This is an excellent vampire game. But the game navigation system is irritating. Because there is no mini-map only a navigating compass. Navigating Compass is good if the game is completely open-world, but this game is partially open-world.
Need NPC location marks on the main map because finding the NPC after the first meeting is difficult. The game SFX and the music are too good. It's created the perfect horror feel.

A story set in Victorian England, with all the characterisation and writing all very much 'Austen-style'.
It is not every day where I see a game that depicts Victorian speech, dialogue and setting so very well, more importantly, the way the characters interact with each other makes me think that - yes, we are in Victorian England. In that era, 'physical distance' is strictly adhered to, in fact, even now, the British still maintain a clear physical distance to another, just by looking at Dr Reid's movements, his distance to another, especially one of the opposite gender, hints that he is close to her.

The romance is pretty well-done, for one set in Victorian England, if you are hoping for a 'passionate', declare your feelings to the world type of romance in a Vampire RPG, much less a Victorian RPG, this is not for you.

Vampyr is one of my favorite games, captivating with its gothic, 1800s London setting, foggy streets, mysterious characters, and a haunting soundtrack that perfectly sets the tone. The protagonist, Dr. Jonathan Reid, is torn between his oath as a doctor and his new vampire nature, creating a fascinating duality that drives the emotional depth of the story. The biting mechanics is both enjoyable and meaningful, as each choice impacts the narrative and the city around the player. The moral choices and their consequences kept me engaged - Vampyr is an immersive gothic tale and enjoyable vampire experience with a richly crafted dark world.

Okay I just beat the game I have to say I enjoyed every last bit of it!
while the combat was a bit clunky with a horrible targeting system that jumped from one enemy to the next every time I locked on, I think the atmosphere is dark the world building is incredible and the music is moving.

overall cool vampire game, we honestly need more vampire games like this. hope for a sequel :)

Good plot..... Bad decisions like the lack of fast travel really ruined it for me. Not to mention that the ingame map is not detailed at all and mostly just shows the streets which leads to even more running around trying to get to get to where you need to be.

Great game! Great graphics, great story!

las peleas no me terminaron de convencer, la historia es buena, pero bueno mucho tiempo del juego corriendo de aqui por alla si queres completar las historias de los secundarios.
A pesar de estos detalles, lo recomiendo por su historia, muy interesante protagonista.

So, at first the gameplay was a little wonky and completely understanding the games universe was confusing. But the setting and story keep you going. After a couple of hours you become hooked, entangled in a mystery in another time. Slowly you pick up the mechanics and completely fall in love!!! This is a very unique game and called for mechanics not ordinary to most games and a beautiful job was done! Kudos, hopefully they will continue with the story in another game!!! 10/10 Keep'em coming!!!

A flawed but fun game. The enemies are kinda samey, but they can still surprise you (I hate the jump attack). This has the issue of I choose and option that has 5 words of text and I completely misunderstood what was going to happen. I really wish this game had a save scum mechanic because the alternative is to start over again once you make a mistake. Do not do the pacifist run your first time, you will miss out on a large portion of the game, just be sure you want those NPC to die.

Love the story line. Graphics are great.

I recommend you play on easy mode / story cause it's hard, the story is more than fine, I'd say this is the best vampire game so far and at this time. i had to play it, now I'll let you guess where I'm from so you understand why i had to play this game, Dracula's Castle is located in my Country.

Love the concept and deserves a sequel to improve some of the mechanics. We need more solid Vampire rpgs!

After playing BioShock and Dishonored this feels like a similar game that kept moving into that goth ascetic. Add some detective game play elements and a sort of light side/dark side options and you got yourself a good time.

story of a telltale game, but combat that's clanky and jank, with items that were used carrying over between deaths.

Soulslike with intrigue and great roleplaying. Gorgeous besides bad facial animation.

Pros:
- good RPG mechanics
- a combination of modern and classic representation of vampires (still, no bat transformation sadly)
- good story
- characters are well written, with strengths and flaws
Cons:
- enemies are levelling up with you, making progression feel like a necessity to not be overwhelmed by increasing health bars and greater damage outputs
- lost oportunity for stealth mechanics, as a vampire you should be the master of darnkess and shadows, but sadly all encounters and combat is forced into "brawls"
- although the story is good, it could have been improved especially towards the end, where the game tries to keep it more cryptic and then shoves some answers in your face via character dialogues (they could have gone with more investigations as gameplay loops)

Overall a good game. But as a personal taste, I would have liked a few improvements here and there (mentioned above).

It's an underrated good game. There are bugs and animations stuff that happens that I would like them to be fixed. Needs a bit of a touch up. Solid game nonetheless. 6/10.

TL;DR: 8/10, worth every penny. Amazing characters. Makes you feel like a posh British after the game with an appetite for necks and fight half of London with a tea cup.

Yeah, the story can be summarised in 5 minutes, although that would be a punishment to the developers because they put quite a lot of effort into the game. My first run took me a while because I was running around aimlessly, but it felt good exploring nonetheless.
The characters are very memorable, some not so much, but the majority are worth revisiting. So much so that I found myself finding clues for them and went back to them to understand who they really are (and trust me, there are some really good plot twists).
Fighting is good and simple, no crazy gimmicks and you'll easily find your combo of preference until the end of the game.
Crafting system is mid, too simplified, maybe no effort at all, so for those who don't care too much about this you're good. But for those who love farming and then crafting, well this is "no bueno".
Now, there's these annoying things called collectables, well, lemme tell you something...you're gonna need at least 2 runs to do everything. The game explains carefully that your actions have consequences, and oh boy, do they. I was lucky enough to be the "lost" gamer to find everything on my second run, and then started a 3rd run to do an achievement right at the beginning.
Also the game has 4 different endings making it feel even more that your choices impacted your game further.

Will I play it gain? Yes, for nostalgia or if I'm going through a vampiric phase again.
Would I recommend it? Yes, a game more "vampire" than this and as good as this is hard to find.
Rating: 8 outta 10 bites

Game seems to be crafted with love but overstays its welcome. A 6.5/10.

The story is fairly good, reminiscent of Vampire the Masquerade, so if you're itching for a bit of that, this game might scratch it, like using a butter knife instead of a proper backscratcher.

As for the gameplay itself, it's deceptively linear. You're presented with a large map of London, suggesting freedom and exploration, but each (fetch) quest itself is unfortunately on rails. There is a game map that seems to promise a sprawling city to explore, only to find that each quest location is surrounded by suddenly locked gates and inexplicably blocked paths, forcing you into a single, illogical route. You end up feeling more like a rat in a maze than an adventurer in an open world.

Every single quest entails you going somewhere (of course), but 90% of them then *funnel* you into a *specific* path. For example, in one quest, you're tasked with going to a certain house, seemingly right in the center of the map. You look at that location and think you can approach it from any direction since the map shows all manner of roads leading to it. But no. All those paths are blocked off by 'locked gates' or doors. Instead, there's a single hidden path that is the *only* way to the location. So, you waste half an hour circling the location to find that single 'correct' path. This pattern repeats for most quests, leading you to feel like you're being jerked around needlessly and start cursing the game developers as they pull you out of the world with this shenanigan. It feels like playing one of those ancient first-generation point-and-click adventure games, where you had to randomly click every single pixel on the screen, hoping to find *the* magic pixel the developers wanted you to find. Time sink incarnate.

Secondly, the repetition is mind-numbing. There are just a handful of enemies. Each map region is pretty much composed of a group of three enemies with two different sprites, spawned seemingly 30 meters from each other all the time. Wherever you go, you'll be slowed down by this same trio of mobs. Since the game uses respawn, there's no sense of achievement in defeating them, turning the entire gameplay into one long, tedious slog.

If you're into this game mainly from an RPG/story perspective, I strongly recommend playing it on Story (easy) mode. Any higher level, and you'll spend 95% of the playtime doing the same thing over and over instead of experiencing the story progression. And even on Easy, the game feels like a chore. Halfway through, I was forced to enable 1-hit kills just to progress the story at a reasonable pace. Even Easy bogs you down into a sense of repetitive insanity at about the midpoint.

The mind-numbing repetition and linear quest design make it hard to believe most people would ever complete the game, likely leading them to quit midway. As such, I can unfortunately not recommend it.

My still decent rating is due to the writing and storytelling. I look forward to seeing what Dontnod can do in a follow-up if they manage to sort out the gameplay element. That should provide for a great experience. As *this* title stands, it's an "Ok" time waster, like watching paint dry, but with slightly more plot.

Vampyr, developed by Dontnod Entertainment (the creators of Life is Strange), is a unique and atmospheric game that leans heavily on storytelling and character development. Set in 1918 London during the Spanish flu epidemic, it offers a haunting and immersive narrative experience where choices have real consequences. While the game has its strengths, particularly in its story and setting, the gameplay itself feels somewhat lacking compared to the engaging narrative.

Story and Character Development

Atmosphere and Visuals

Gameplay and Mechanics

Pros:

• Rich, immersive story with moral choices that impact the game world.
  
• Well-developed characters with complex backstories that make the world feel alive.
  
• Beautifully dark atmosphere that captures the eerie feel of London in 1918.
  
• Choice-driven narrative where decisions matter and have real consequences on the world.
  

Cons:

• Mediocre combat system that lacks depth and can feel repetitive.
  
• Gameplay is limited mostly to exploration and conversation, which may not appeal to action-focused players.
  
[*]Some pacing issues in terms of quests and travel between locations.

Final Thoughts

I was really impressed with this game, the combat system is fun and the mechanics for leveling up and acquiring xp are well thought out, with some caviots. I really enjoyed the writing in this game almost every named npc is interesting and has a story worth uncovering, and uncovering things in the game feels organic for the most part without feeling tedious. I highly reccommend this to anyone who is a fan of narrative action rpgs and/or the setting and aesthetic.

The atmosphere and story is refreshing if not impressive, but the combat is ASS.

The world, combat and powers system are cool, It has a bit too much dialogue but i understand why it's in the game

I am trying really hard to enjoy this game. The characters are fun, the worldbuilding is interesting, the lore tidbits fun to hunt out, the voice acting and cut scenes are spectacular, the boss fights are suitably challenging and I really really enjoy the detective investigations and running around healing people.

This all grinds to a halt any time I go outside of a safe zone and every 5 steps I am being attacked by nothing more than time-sink grindy fodder. It is infuriating. It is just wave after wave of purposeless fights that only get more and more difficult the further into the game you get. I didn't get this for a mindless shooter, I got this as a choices matter RPG! Why on earth do I have to do these stupid swarming grinding fights between locations? It doesn't matter if I clear out an area so I can raun back and forth on my investigations because they respawn as soon as I sleep, as soon as I exit the game and worst of all - if I die every. single. bloody. trash. fodder. comes. back.

I can't just enjoy the city environment and explore around and solve mysteries with the odd surprise battle here and there, I have to defend myself constantly against these endless swarms that are harder than the actual boss fights!

I'm on Chapter 4, 20 hours in and most of those hours are these stupid soul sucking combat fights.


It erodes any sense of joy from the game.

I want to like this game, it has such an amazing theme, art direction, voice acting and the story is incredible, but the design makes it impossible to reccommend. I haven't finished the game as of this review (usually I prefer to beat the game before I review it) but I've completed it about halfway.

Let's start with the basics. The game has an autosave mechanic to make it harder to savescum- it's a decision based game, okay fine. But why can't I choose to save? You have to trigger an autosave if you want your data to stick. It's not too hard to do this, but there isn't much reason to make a feature of your several hour long game no saving.

Near the start of the game you get to choose your difficulty- I chose normal. Once you make this choice you are completely unable to change it. Again, this is a narrative game- I don't mind restarting to lower difficulty in something like Megaman, but here it feels much worse, because now I know in advance what choices do. Most of my issues with difficulty came with using a trackpad and keyboard, but the issue here is that I cannot change the difficulty, so if I get stuck I need to make a new save file and start all over. The game DOES note that the difficulty cannot be changed, but what it does NOT note is that (I am fairly certain) the Normal difficulty carries over your spent consumable items, bullets, healing items, ect to every game over. I am fairly certain I heard the easy difficulty does not- if it does, this is null. Having to get consumables again each time you die is just repetitive and does not add real difficulty- I can find or buy bullets easily, it just forces me to spend more time farming them. If the easy difficulty has this too, then it's just a stain on the entire game rather then the normal difficulty.

Then, the map sucks too. This game punishes you for exploring. If you reach certain areas early, people will die because you are too weak to save them. Didn't happen to me, but that's because I heard about that in advance. The goals can be confusing to see as well, depending- sometimes it gives you the exact location, other times it just gives you a radius.

All in all, the amount of prior knowledge you need to have (how to make an autosave, don't wander off the path, there's some unclear choices) makes me hesitant to reccomend Vampyr. If you think you can ignore errors like that, its a great game. You feel strong, you have a great atmosphere, and there's a lot of genuinely good progression, characters and scenes. These aspects of the design, though, hold it back from being great.

Edit: I have now beaten the game. My position has not changed.

Vampyr has a rich story with many interesting characters that lead complex lives. The games is very dialogue heavy and paced very slow where the action is concerned. If you are looking for a combat focused experience this game likely isn't for you.
There was a great diversity of powers to evolve which means it is important to strategize how you build out Reid's abilities. It also means there are a number of combat styles to choose from. I found the auto lock targeting very annoying and eventually turned it off in favor of manual targeting as the crosshair would frequently change to random targets.
I enjoyed talking to everyone and learning their secrets. I found travel a tiny bit frustrating since there was no fast travel, but in a way it was a blessing because I went the Pacifist route and greatly needed the XP.

Definitely scratches the vampire RPG itch for me! It has been a couple years since I played it, and the impressions that remained the strongest were the oh so atmospheric world that was a pleasure to run around in, and the main character that I was happy to run around with :) Planning to replay soon for sure!

Excellent game. Good graphics, nice story.
Utterly unplayable, as I forget any joy in it the moment the combat starts. It is, simply put, atrocious.

Also a pet peeve: You cannot skip individual lines of dialogue, only the entire part.

Great story, and combat is good however its just not that good as a Souls game.

This is probably one of my favorite games ever. I have 100% it and replayed it so many times, almost doing it annually. Its basically tradition. As soon as this game popped up in my recommended I was immediately interested -- you are both a doctor and a vampire?? How could that concept not be amazing?

The world and the worldbuilding is fanstastic, I love the characters who are both very realistic and relatable, and the mechanics in the game where your choices have consequences over how the districts fare is so interesting and fun. The world changes depending on how the district is doing and you encounter different enemies depending.

Although the combat is a bit wonky and unfortunately there is not much expression to the characters outside of cutscenes. Cutscenes are expressive when it comes to body language but their facial expressions are not altered much. Outside of that when you are simply speaking to charactrs it is the same animation played over and over again which can be a bit tiring - luckily the voice acting is really good which helps distract from the repeated animations. There is also a, in my opinion, very forced romance plot that had no basis what so ever. It felt like they included that just because they felt they needed to, when it would have been perfectly fine, and even better, to have it be just platonic. The romance happens extremely suddenly and adds nothing to the story. I also find it very weird how Jonathan chooses to stay with Elisabeth in some ending like he doesn't have people he cares about in London still?? He's just prepared to give up everything and everyone else he cares about?

I realize now I have no idea how to write a review. But I just needed to express how much I love this game. Once again I love the characters. They are great, I love the main character, I love the side characters, I love the antagonists (even though I REALLY wish they had utilised Geoffrey more, how cool would it have been if they actually made the last fight for example a team up with them both???!!! I understand why they couldn't do it, both in terms of gameplay as well as lorewise, since he didn't have the antidote and he would risk once AGAIN becoming a vampire bUT!!) I love being the local gossiper and playing the detective, trying to finds as many hints as possible (even though I ultimately won't get the extra XP because I usually go for pacifist runs) to sleuth out everyone's secrets. I love the atmosphere, I love when and where the game takes place. I love how everything looks. I love all the little details added in the world and even the characters backstories. I love running around and taking care of all the citizens, making sure they're as healthy as possible. It's just so so great.

I really love it. Will always recommend

This game is nice. The atmosphere is amazing and the music. It does get a little repetitive and CAN be difficult depending on where you want to be, but expect some dark souls elements and RPG exploration. This game reminds me of Greedfall in a sense, but different skins.

never thought id see the day where i play a game as a doctor and a vampire at the same time. restarted it recently bc i started on a higher difficulty than i realized and it was really hard lol. this game is fun.

it's... fine, although i wouldn't recommend it unless you're specifically looking for a vampire game - otherwise there's plenty of other better games

the camera is awful, either hiding the enemy you're attacking or instead if you've locked onto an enemy, making you dash right into their attack

the district's health status system feels very poorly implemented - a district that starts off in a "serious" state feels a lot more dangerous when you've healed everybody and the place is now sanitised, just because a few nights have passed so all the enemies are higher level damage sponges that can kill in a couple hits

the combat was definitely a bit clunky, but given that when i started playing Vampyr i had just finished VTMB, it was fun enough and felt decent.

the story was mostly pretty good, although less interesting toward the end, it was fun to uncover things about everybody, although at a couple points the choices felt pretty constrained. all the characters felt believable, and i can understand why they did what they did and have it be justified from their worldview

the dialogue system also kinda sucks, feeling like obvious dialogue trees rather than actual conversations

it also felt like there was a lot of missed potential for you to get involved with other things that were happening - e.g. it was set up that there's some sort of rivalry between trade unionists and a gang in the docks, but you're not able to ask about it, or tip the scales one way or the other

the ending is also kinda "meh" even though i got the best one, i cared about the people i had helped over the course of the game and it seemed like they were just forgotten about

despite its issues it was still an enjoyable enough experience, i just wouldn't recommend it unless you're sure you want to play it

One of the best story drive action fantasies I have ever played. The progression is on par as well. If you want to enjoy something supernatural fiction about some 90's plague tale in midst of a post war crisis brimming with blood borne monsters, this is exactly that and stands as a solid masterpiece

It's a cool game with a quite intriguing story... so I do recommend it. Congrats to the writers and the makers of this game.

Absolutely buy this, especially on sale. A perfectly atmospheric, game set in post Victorian era. The dialog, characters, stories, and side stories are all great. It's maybe one of the best vampire game's made.

The combat is poor and rugged though. And the load times are horrible even on modern SSDs. I think I read somewhere development wasn't that smooth, and the game could use a lot of quality of life updates, which will never happen now. Free mods off NexusMods do help it a lot.

I just wish there was more. A bigger expanded map, better combat, a continuation of the story. So much detail, love, and potential, over now.

The game is very good.

Combat it's not the best but it's not insufferable. Everything else (Lore, writing, atmosphere etc.) it's also very good.

The autosave, however, is stupid. There are some known bugs that can break some quests (like Whitechapel's scarf quest) and since that the game has only one save slot which saves automatically chances are that some things may break and you won't be able to reload a previous save before the bug happened. It is stupid to insert a feature like this if you're not sure that your game is bug-free. So now I'm downloading a mod so I can have multiple save files but I will have to start the game from scratch again... it's just a glitched side quest but it's very annoying.

Overall great game, play it.

Finished it years ago, thought I buy it. Platinum it maybe. I love the game but fps drops, bugs, vague dialog options and little things like annoying lock mechanics, all the running around etc. It's killing me, I can't finish it. %49 recommend it, %51 not recommend it. Take it for what it's worth.

What can I say about this game, I will say that if I have played more then 24 hours of a game, its worth the time. Choices affect your game, the story and the characters are well written (thus far, Im still not done) and I am having an enjoyable experince. Your Xbox controller works well and the in-game symbols change when using it. you can still use keyboard and mouse.

But I do have one gripe about this game, it will crash from time to time, mostly due to a graphics thing (something to do with antialising)

But overall I highly recommend it! Enjoy!

Idea is amazing, story is interesting, gameplay is decent. There are quite a few bugs, however, so the product is definitely raw. That's a pity, if the game was more polished, I think it would be a masterpiece. Still, a nice game to play

This is something i really wanted to play for some reason again since i have it physically elsewhere, i guess i wanted to play it again on here and i also like dark gritty settings with vampires. most players say its boring with the constant reading and at times clunky movements, yes i do agree somewhat but it ultimately didnt bother me so much, you get uset to it. other than that, to me anyway; the game is excellent. its one of my favorites.

Going through all the conversations is a bit like farming but the plot and action are good. This is a game I look forward to spending time with.

This game hella boring and tedious. combat isnt fun, exploring wasnt fun, thank god it wasnt a long game

The game is surprisingly good after you get used to the initial jankyness of the game. The combat system is rather clunky but becomes tolerable once you get the hang of it and after you have tweaked weapons and potions + skills so that they work for you. The graphics are on a medium level but they are very atmospheric which helps to elevate the game presentation a lot. I did not like this game at first, due to the clunky UI and combat system, but decided to give it another go and now having played a bit more, I can say I like it. Imagine being a vampire detective in a setting that feels like London during Jack the ripper scare. You really play as a doctor, healing people so you can consume their blood and receive more xp, or decide to let them be which makes the game harder to play. This is how game difficulty is adjusted. I would rate this game a 7/10.

its good im doing it on hard mode and im sooo over it but its enjoyable

I'm going to rip the bandage off from the start and say that this combat is poor. Not every game needs to be a souls-like. While I did appreciate the various abilities you have as well as the ease in healing yourself, actually fighting enemies was a chore for a majority of the game. It lacked polish and it could have done well with a little more enemy variety. That lack of variety hits harder as the game wants you to backtrack to complete side quests and provide medicine for people. The game is open-world but it lacks a fast travel option. Running around definitely ballooned my runtime. Thankfully, the map isn't big.

That being said, I thought everything else in this game was really damn cool. I found the premise, setting, and story very engaging. The characters similarly so, thanks to the voice acting - the stand out being your main character. I liked the pathologic-like mechanic where people can get sick across the map. It gave me a very strong sense of trepidation just from the simple act of leveling up since I knew *something* unfortunate might happen. I liked the dilemmas the game gives you mostly because there was never a clear cut "good" or "evil" option to choose from. Something you think could be the most beneficial choice might doom a whole section of the city. The game really felt to me that it was more about doing the best you can with what you have then in trying to make everyone happy. I liked that. Side quests were simple enough and helped flesh out the setting.

I am very glad I got to experience this. Even with its choppy performance on the Steam Deck, I had a great time.

I'd say it's an 8/10 for me.

Took about a four year break came back after playing Dark Souls II. This game is just a cheap Dark Souls knockoff. It has a heavy over reliance on having attacks slide towards their targets making it feel incredibly cheap to hit or get hit by enemies.
The fights are rarely interesting and are typically just hitting two or three enemies while in a street. Levels are most noticeable when there's clipping getting in the way of the combat.
All enemy designs tend to do a lot of damage, which would work if not for how bad the combat looks and feels.
The NPC interactions were generally uninteresting, The whole hint system thing seems kind of interesting but it doesn't really have anything engaging to offer other than the occasional choice that actually matters (that also sometimes doesn't really matter).
Same thing goes with the story, except I kind of didn't like it. The whole overdramatic dialogue that tries to sound poetic is just kind of over the top. Along with the "Take responsibility for your actions." thing on the autosave notification screen makes the game seem like its taking itself too seriously. It could be ironic but if I didn't notice then I'm surprised.