Vampire The Masquerade Reckoning of New York Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published October 1, 2024 · Updated October 1, 2024

Vampire The Masquerade Reckoning of New York Review, is a narrative game set in the World of Darkness Universe. Play as one of the members of the Vampire Clans in a shifting political landscape between the Camarilla and the Anarchs while trying your best to survive.

Vampire The Masquerade Reckoning of New York Review Pros:

Beautiful graphics.
716.4MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Video settings – resolution, fullscreen, and v-sync.
Accessibility options – vibration, animations, and hold interactions.
Text settings – language, font size slider, and auto advance speed slider.
Two playable characters – Kali and Paddy.
Game difficulty is where you can turn hunger (risk management to disciplines) and hunter threat (can get ambushed) on and off beforehand.
You have two initial points to put into any of the three disciplines – obfuscate, animalism, and presence.
Visual novel-style gameplay with a choose-your-own-adventure mechanic built in.
Multiple-choice questions and answers are a huge part of the gameplay.
Awesome art of characters, gothic-looking locations, and set pieces. It all comes together in a visually stunning way.
Very simple control scheme.
Best played with headphones.
Keyword mode is a button press and will give descriptions or meanings of certain words in dialogue.
The auto-advance button helps keep the story rolling.
The game is split up into chapters.
Chapter select to replay them.
Keeps the same appearance and gameplay style as the previous games.
Such a brilliant well well-paced story.
You can instantly bring up the glossary or journal.
Save and load when you want.
Location art can have subtle animations and excellent music scores.
It’s a game that is very hard to put down as the story grips you
You have main story quests along with optional detour (side) missions.
Location select map lets you choose where to go and will say if it’s the location of a detour or the main story objective.
It’s a really stylish game.
All new characters are memorable and add so much.
I like how the characters have a lot more depth to them and they have at least one part of animation that helps keep you engaged.
Has a lot of replayability due to the many options and choices you get.

Vampire The Masquerade Reckoning of New York Review Cons:

You cannot remap the controls.
The second character has to be unlocked by finishing the first character’s story.
Minimal graphics settings.
Has swearing and as an FYI there is no option to turn it off.
At times it feels like your choices don’t matter or change the outcome.
I did find I didn’t always like my characters.
The implementation of disciplines is fine but it can be annoying as it sometimes has to be used despite it messing up endings.
The characters are good but some of them are very cut and paste of previous characters and are borderline annoying at times.
I don’t like it when I can’t always do what I want with my character it feels like everything is predetermined, it’s just my choices that change what text I read.
Sometimes I would like to be able to learn or ask more of a character.
There is a few instances of text going over each other making it hard to read.
Annoyingly had the game locked up at random times, usually in between nights.