Shouldn't Be Hated

All last night I've been playing Vampire Rain, a game that has been getting no love from gamers in North America. When I first purchased this game, I thought it was going to be a shoot those bad guys. But instead there is hardly any shooting involved at the moment, the game is primarily stealth.

It is pretty much a "Game Over" if you are spotted by a vampire, known in this game as Nightwalkers. With only one or two hits a Nightwalker can take down any person in it's path, namely you. The whole point of the game, is to not get caught and if you need to take down one. Make sure to get enough distance between the protagonist and the Nightwalker, before you start shooting it in the head. It will take a whole cartage of ammo to take it down (if you're lucky.)

The story is about a team who is sent out to deal with the over populated Nightwalkers, the teams goal is to kill the main honcho of a large clan, doing so would to stop the Nightwalkers of that area. Further in the story they find their advanced unit dead in very horrid ways. Leaving everything up to them to stop the Nightwalkers.

I do admit there is some lacked emotions in this game, a lot of the time the conversations sounds too well rehearsed with no feelings or emotions. I also have beef with some of the controls, such as A is to crawl and Y is to jump. I am so use to the bottom button to always be the button to jump, and any other button to crawl. Because of this a lot of times in a panic situation, I press A hoping for a large forward jump in the air, only to get a face to the ground.

The way the game is set I wouldn't be surprised if there will be another game, mostly because they said that it will take around roughly 3 years for the Vampire population to dominate the human population. I still haven't gotten that far in the game, but the main point is as much as I've played, it's not a game that I can say I hate or felt I got screwed over on.