L.G.C. |Reviews| — Victor Vran

Your intrepid heroes hack-n-slash, bathe in syrup, and collect all the stars. Victor Vran faces the CHAIRQUISITION!

Game: Victor Vran
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/345180
Devel: Haemimont Games
Engine: Same as Tropico 5
Price: $/€ 19.99 – CDN $27.99

Wazzat: Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

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Holds 100+ FerPS just about everywhere, except near the transmutator in the hub.

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spite-noped on me once… has run perfectly ever since

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Shiny / Sounds

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The first few areas look hella impressive (for a Linux game)
Unfortunately the later areas/dungeons look like placeholders and the devels said “FK IT! Leave em”
Same goes for some of the baddies.
Yes, I’m looking at you Mr. Ice ball pants and you Ms. Foo Foo rocky monster.
The sound is a little bit of alright.
Splosions and thwacks are (for the most part) satisfying.
However, the voice over guy … should have been me, Brad.

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The levels can get kind of samey, and it’s not impossible to get lost if you mess around with the camera
The visuals are good, but not stunning
The voicework is alright

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Whar MSAA gone?

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Torchlight 2
At one point the narrator sang the “brave sir robin ran away” song from M.P. Holy Grail and i liked it

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Control

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Keyboard and gerbil work like you expect ..after you quit bitching about WASD.
But wrap your minds around this gentlemen.
I’ve never played an aRPG that just worked™ with a controlla.
I reckon this could very well be the best adapted aRPG control scheme, in the world.

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I first approached this game like it was a wasd version of diablo.
This did not work all that well
You need a controller for this game. Dualshock 4 and Xbox 360 work fine out of the box.
Forced controls similarly

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Both the NVidia SHIELD controller and Dual Shock 2 work out of the box.
- With their own usual shortcomings.
It’s perfectly playable with the keyboard and mouse too, if you’re weird like me.

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I meant to try it with the keyboard and mouse, but the controller just worked too damn nice
My thumb got sore, realized you could just hold ‘X’ to keep attacking. Brilliant!
Really annoyed with the lack of ability to roll… press LB to roll. Brilliant!

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FUN

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It’s more Action vs. RPG.
And that’s not entirely a bad thing.
You see, I’ve never been a fan of typical aRPGs because for me managing stats is something better left to my accountant.
And to be perfectly honest card systems anger and confuse me.
However Mr. Vran is extremely light in both areas so there was a chance I might possibly enjoy it.
And I did.
I spent most of my time running about collecting weapons and upgrading my special attacks.
Only later did I explore the card system and after some tinkering I became near unstoppable at lvl25.
That’s the good. Now the bad.
Anyone have the slightest idea what the story is?
It’s genuinely that forgettable.
They introduced a crafting system that’s so poorly explained it’s best left alone.
Playtime is artificially extended by collecting stars and applying mutators.
Everything after lvl20 becomes a grind-fest and multiplayer is completely unbalanced.
Mix that with a 10hr completion time for a hack and slash in aRPG clothing.
At the end of the day it’s still a better love story than Gauntlet.

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This game kind of reminds me of a budget bloodborne
You pick your two weapons and then you have at
The system is surprisingly deep, and the card mechanic gives you more flexibility in how you want to play the game
It can get a bit easy at time, especially with the vampiric shotgun
Still, I can sink a few hours into this game at a time. Pretty fucking fun

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I’d give it 4 chairs for the fun weren’t it for the fact that it tickles the completionist in me, with those side-objectives in dungeons.
“You get a chest if you don’t take damage and kill 500 spiders in 2 minutes.”
- Oh what’s that, a tiny ass spider snuck up to me and dealt 1 point of damage.
- “Better luck next time, dumbass!”
And that is the other reason I couldn’t play it for too long.
Everytime you restart the dungeon in order to try and fulfill arbitrary objective du jour, you get to listen to Vicky and the Voice being broody or attempting dark humor.
- How about you make it so the voices are only played the first time around?
That said though, pretty good game.
I’d say it’s worth the $20 admission price if you like Hack’n Slashers and want one with a slight twist on the genre.
Jump button FTW!

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