The virtual legacy of Vampire: The Masquerade is patchy to say the least, but the tabletop RPG did inspire one of the best-written videogames of all time. 2004’s Bloodlines was a sultry, humorous, and delightfully twisted portrayal of Los Angeles’ undead underbelly, filled to bursting with weird and wonderful characters. It may have been buggier than a rotting corpse, but it excelled at making vampires seem sexy, scary, and above all, strange.
Vampire: The Masquerade: Swansong does the complete opposite. Its cabal of backstabbing bloodsuckers are painfully boring, frequently stupid, and exhibit all the charisma of a Nosferatu living in a bin. Big Bad Wolf’s narrative RPG has grand ambitions and spots of potential, but it all falls apart in a mess of half-baked ideas and a script sucked dry of personality.
Setting its vampire story in Boston, sees you play as three different vampires, all high-ranking members of the Camarilla (a sort of cross
