It's funny seeing Anime Only people complained about Marcille being not very deep like don't worry you will learn of her crimes soon
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New video and blog post on the narrative and RPG elements of Bloodlines 2.
Some key takeaways:
- The game itself is set around Christmas time 2024 in Seattle.
- The protagonist is an elder named Phyre. You can still change your clan/gender, but the character is set. No clarification on a full character creator, or if there are just set gender/clan presets like in Bloodlines 1.
- The player is fully voiced.
- Fabien is a thinblood character that only Phyre can hear (sounds a bit like a V and Johnny Silverhand situation). He's described as an anchor and a compass to the character. He also helps Phyre with technology and the new world.
- Romance is hinted at.
- Phyre awoke from torpor and a fellow kindred named Ysabella stole some of their power via a strange mark on their hand.
- Clothing/fashion choice affects how NPCs will react to the character. You can attempt to alter the resonance of your feeding victims, presumably by scaring them, etc.
- You were known as the slayer in Cairo previously and have quite a bit of infamy. There are NPCs in Seattle that will recognize you. You have some say in your backstory.
- Multiple endings depending on your decisions.
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I’ve seen a few posts pointing out how stampede vash lacks the anger that 98 and especially trimax vash has. Which is true.
And it is important. Because vash isn’t the too morally strong or good or kind to be angry or whatever. Vash has a lot of rage about a lot of things. he chooses to be kind despite it rather than not being angry at all.
His sheer determination to not give into anger and choosing kindness over and over again is very important to who he is.
(personally I think that while tristamp vash went through a lot already too, he simply has not quite reached that point)
What I haven’t really seen are post pointing out that stampede vash, unlike 98 and trimax vash, does not cry.
Vash cries a lot. Some of it is for the comedy and because he is dramatic like that and also he isn’t above trying to get pity that way (with little success lol).
But he also cries a lot just… because. I don’t know how to explain it.
Like vash has no shame or inhibition to cry when that’s what he feels. Not gonna lie, I know trimax mostly from spoilers so far (shame on me) but especially in 98 vash cries very freely. He cries when he thinks he will have to watch that ex-mob boss or whatever being shot. Cries after killing, cries after monev kills all these people and he wants to shot him but wont. And so so many more.
Like that time he just suddenly drops his donuts and cries in the middle of the street.
Vash is friendly and sociable on a surface level but he has cut himself off from so much. Keeps so many things on the inside. Crying seems the one thing he doesn’t hold back on. Maybe his only genuine outlet for the pain.
Vash hides his scars, his pain and much more but he never hides his tears.
Vash, in 98 even says ‘is there something wrong with that?’ when the kids note that he is crying despite being an adult.
In contrast to that, stampede vash never really cries. He even states that he doesn’t deserve to.
We see him shed tears just once, at the very end when it becomes clear to him that he can’t save nai and that his brother and him have grown so far apart that he barely recognizes him anymore. He sheds silent tears for nai, for them, at what he certainly believed to be the very end.
Stampede vash is not only a lot more timid than his counterpart but seems overall more repressed and and emotionally dulled/exhausted
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