TL;DR buy this game at a deep discount if that and play through the main story because the setting and atmosphere is kinda fun

This game is hard to review because at its core its a fantastic game. The setting is incredible, the mc is compelling, the story is interesting, etc.
But its all surface level.
The combat in this game could give the simplicity of witcher 3's combat a run for its money and most likely beat it. The vampire powers get outscaled very fast in the mid game. Out of all the choices the best one becomes getting the protective shield, the highest damaging weapon and then doing the single x,x,x combo on the enemies.(the only attack in the game btw)
The story gives you choices to go deep into people's story and get hints about them but thats it, theres nothing you can do with the hints. All it does is give you a little bit of xp. For example at an early point in the game you find out that one of the nurses along with her boyfriend ambulance driver save beds in the hospital for patients who can bribe them. And theres nothing you can do with that information. Cant blackmail them to get a cut or report them to get them fired (or reprimanded) and not even something like getting a deep discount at the ambulance driver's store. At another point in the game you meet a detective who is looking for missing people and when you find them it doesnt change anything. One repeating dialogue that exclaims shock at how you were able to find them and thats it. He still patrols the same block every night, doesnt go to check in with the missing people, doesnt go back to the precinct, no reward or inquiry as to how you were able to find them. AND THERES SO MANY MORE.... EVERY SINGLE HINT LEADS TO NOTHING.
I've probably completed almost all substories in this game but again same thing. Nothing changes in the game world. Not for the characters, not for you, not for the same 15 metres of space they pace back and forth every night.
And towards the end you can see the dialogues start becoming generic because they didnt want to write separate dialogues based upon your morality or choices you made

[h1]VERY WATERED DOWN WITCHER 3[/h1] [b]TL;DR buy this game at a deep discount if that and play through the main story because the setting and atmosphere is kinda fun[/b] This game is hard to review because at its core its a fantastic game. The setting is incredible, the mc is compelling, the story is interesting, etc. But its all surface level. [u]The combat[/u] in this game could give the simplicity of witcher 3's combat a run for its money and most likely beat it. The vampire powers get outscaled very fast in the mid game. Out of all the choices the best one becomes getting the protective shield, the highest damaging weapon and then doing the single x,x,x combo on the enemies.(the only attack in the game btw) [u]The story[/u] gives you choices to go deep into people's story and get hints about them but thats it, theres nothing you can do with the hints. All it does is give you a little bit of xp. For example at an early point in the game you find out that one of the nurses along with her boyfriend ambulance driver save beds in the hospital for patients who can bribe them. And theres nothing you can do with that information. Cant blackmail them to get a cut or report them to get them fired (or reprimanded) and not even something like getting a deep discount at the ambulance driver's store. At another point in the game you meet a detective who is looking for missing people and when you find them it doesnt change anything. One repeating dialogue that exclaims shock at how you were able to find them and thats it. He still patrols the same block every night, doesnt go to check in with the missing people, doesnt go back to the precinct, no reward or inquiry as to how you were able to find them. AND THERES SO MANY MORE.... EVERY SINGLE HINT LEADS TO NOTHING. I've probably completed almost all [u]substories[/u] in this game but again same thing. Nothing changes in the game world. Not for the characters, not for you, not for the same 15 metres of space they pace back and forth every night. And towards the end you can see the dialogues start becoming generic because they didnt want to write separate dialogues based upon your morality or choices you made