It’s an underused mechanic, but can also be handy for quick escapes.
Uniquely for the genre, Vran can double jump off vertical surfaces to reach high ledges. Split between the main stages and smaller, bite-sized dungeons, gameplay is 70% laying the smack down on zombies and 30% smashing pots and trying to jump through magic walls to find treasure. After entreating the Queen of Castle Zagore for entry into the cursed city, Vran searches for clues as to Adrian’s whereabouts. It feels like an omission and doesn’t make much sense when you consider there’s only one character and no real classes it would have been better to let you create a multitasking badass and level him up down different paths.Īnyway, the story takes place in darkest Zagoravia, where Vran’s friend Adrian – a fellow Hunter – has gone missing. While you can swap out weapons as and when you choose, you can only equip one at a time, so you can’t wade in with a shotgun and pull your hammer out when it gets tough. Modifying tarot cards can also be equipped to grant special buffs and abilities, once you’ve levelled up enough, of course. The more enemies you take out, the quicker the metre fills. It would be easy to label it a clone, but it has enough ideas of its own to outgrow that label pretty quickly.įor a start, it has an interesting skill system that let’s you assign devastating attacks to an Overkill metre.
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It’s more akin to Diablo, in fact, as you guide the gravel-voiced demon hunter through a series of perilous dungeons, gathering loot and gold, and spamming special abilities to vanquish a horde of undead monstrosities. Tributary casting aside, Victor Vran is actually a very different game to The Witcher. The biggest difference between the two characters of course, is that one slays monsters in a fantastical alternate version of Dark Age Europe, while the other slays the undead in a fantastical alternate version of 19th Century Europe. In fact, there are lines in the script that, if you close your eyes, you’d swear were being muttered by the White Wolf himself. It’s still kind of weird to me that Haemimont Games chose Doug Cockle to voice Victor Vran, given the piling similarities to his other, hugely famous alter ego, Geralt of Rivia.
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Originally released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC and scored 8/10 Thankfully, I’m now back and nearly a month after Re:Port Review #27, a new Re:Port emerges covering a 2064, Victor Vran (Mick Fraser is on this one), Freedom Planet, and NIS America’s definitive God Wars release. While we usually have a Re:Port Review basically each week if not multiple in a week, we’re now in peak season and I’m recovering from an injury on my left hand which slowed things down when it comes to Switch port reviews.
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