Vampires: The New Birth Demo

Vampires: The New Birth is a visual novel game that follows the life of Vinette and her transformation from human to vampire.

Game usually imply some sort of gameplay over which the player has some control, but that’s not the case with all of them. Some games are actually visual novels that use an engine to tell a story. Players are just along for the ride, and they don’t get to do anything that influences the story.

The developers that are working on this game are calling it a Gothic RPG, but that’s not entirely accurate. In fact, the game has nothing to do with an RPG, which usually implies choices, parties of characters, missions, items, and so on. Why they would choose it to call it as such is a mystery.

Vinette is convinced by one of her friends to visit a Gothic establishment that’s supposedly run by an old vampire. It turns out that vampires are real and that they don’t seem half as bad as people thought.

One thing leads to another and Vinette become a vampire. She starts on a journey of discovery and begins to act just like the vampires she feared. It’s not an amazing story and most of the time it’s just about some personal drama of the characters that are in focus. The writing is average and sometimes it reads like a love story from one those books with half-naked men on the cover.

The players don’t do anything then just move on to the next line of dialogue, which can become tiring if you’re not really into the story. It takes a long time until the action picks up, and even then it’s punctuated by rather uninteresting scenes. This should be a story about Vinette, but it’s interrupted from time to time with some minor characters.

To be fair, there is some action from time to time, but if you want to explore that side of the gameplay you will need to choose “Gameplay Mode”. You can hunt, seduce, and perform a few other actions that spice things up, but that’s well hidden under all the glitter.

It’s not a bad game, even if you don’t like vampires, but it would have been better if the main story mode would have been intertwined with the gameplay mode in a much more deep way.