27th September
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week we’ve been playing the only Vampire: The Masquerade game that appears to be ever coming out, we’ve been struggling with action adaptations of famous Chinese stories, and we’ve been jumping out of storybooks altogether.
What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York, Android
1 of 3 Caption Attribution Doesn’t he look like Antonio Banderas in Interview with a Vampire?!
I’ve been meaning to sink my teeth into this one for a while. Hey! What’s a fella to do when the other Masquerade game keeps being delayed?
Coteries of New York is the first in a series of visual novel games you can play on pretty much everything – phones included. That’s where I’m playing it. And given that, I expected it to be a pretty limited affair. In some ways, I was right. There’s not a lot of visual bedazzlry going on: it’s static screens and a lot of text to read, and it’s a bit of a chore to wade through at times, especially given the small display. The user interface isn’t great. But there’s definitely something worthwhile here.