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Code Veins strength lies in it's flexible approach to classes. This is all pretty straight forward for anyone that has played one of these games before.
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There is stamina to manage, there is weight that influences your dodge speed, you have a light and heavy attack, you drop your experience upon dying and all enemies respawn when you rest at your checkpoint (in this case a Mistle). The structure is familiar enough - you run around hitting respawn points until you reach a boss at the end of an area. Gameplay is where things get interesting and also noticably worse. I can't imagine myself playing through a NG+ of this but I might be tempted to watch a YouTube video. By the end I had already gotten confused by the lore to fully grasp what was going on - so the relics are in the successors to bind the what and the miasma is the where and the what? But thats fine - I actually think a big part of these games is being odd and vague and forcing you to actually do another playthrough and pay more attention to whats going on now that you have a rough outline of the events in your head. You uncover nuggets of info through various forms of exposition but ultimately everything is fairly vague even though Code Vein has a quite hammy way of forcing narrative on the player in stilted flashbacks which you have to slowly walk through again and again.
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The story makes about as much sense as one of these typically do. A decrepit world, people turned to bloodthirsty mindless husks, a strange royal order, a catastrophe no one can explain. There is a little bit of everything thrown in here. The world has gone to hell, people have started coming back to life with a strange blood thirst, and at the root cause of all this is a mysterious red mist linked to a Queen. The many shades of "ruined city"Ĭode Vein to be extremely reductive is basically Dark Souls with anime characters and a post-apocalyptic vampire motif. Is Code Vein good you ask right at the top of the blog? Well, it's not terrible would be the most diplomatic answer I can give, but that doesn't mean it's good either. It is surprising that it took so long for a full-on anime souls games to emerge but Code Vein is here and is trying to claim it's own little corner of the market. The Souls-like genre has grown into a phenomenon where games from all walks of life are trying their hand at it's specific stylings.