A Vampyre Story

The Good
Mona de Laffite is a talented opera singer in Paris who has it all; beauty, popularity and talent. Alas, her career is cut short when he is kidnapped by a vampire named, Baron Shrowdy von Kiefer. Now our heroine is imprisoned in a castle and having to face a mysterious curse.

A Vampyre Story (2008) is a beautiful point and click adventure game. The animation quality and style will reminder you of the Secret Of Monkey Island 3 (aka Curse of Monkey Island). It is refreshing to play an adventure game that looks lovely,

"OK, but how does the play?" You may be asking.

Again the influence of Monkey Island 3, with user-friendly, point and click commands that are responsive and easy to understand. Generally speaking, you can talk to characters, examine everything, pick up numerous objects and even fly (via a cool bat transformation).

The puzzles themselves are, for the most part, not to difficult to figure out with some good, old-fashion adventure gaming logic. I can think of only one or two puzzles that I required a walk through guide to solve.

If you like adventure games, especially in the vein of LucasArts adventure games, then this game's graphics and its game play mechanics will be a most enjoyable ride.

The Bad
I had zero luck getting the game to run under Windows 10, even with the compatibility option. Alas, this is a common problem with adventure games and Windows operating systems.

Luckily, I also have an older laptop computer, which my runs Windows 7, which seemed to work smoothly, mostly. The game is also suppose to run under Windows XP/Vista, but I can only confirm that it will run under Windows 7.

I say, "mostly" because sometimes the game did glitch, i.e. an important item would not be clickable, or certain cut scenes would repeat themselves several times.

These problems were fixed by SAVING THE GAME OFTEN and just reloading the game when it glitched up. Pressing the space bar key lets you skip cut sequences (and makes your character walk faster). So, the glitches are minor, but need to be noted.

When i beat the game, the cliff-hanger ending was certainly a let down. This game is actually the first part in a series of games that were never developed.

I want more chapters of this game! Alas, it does not look like that is going to happen. Pity. Last, but not least, let us talk a bit about comedy or what this game thinks is comedy.

Much of the dialogue in the game is meant to be funny. I do not think that it is as bad as some critics have said, but the quality of the jokes is very much a case of "hit and miss".

It is not consistently as funny as say, the Secret Of Monkey Island, but it is trying to be funny, with mixed results.

The Bottom Line
A Vampyre Story is a ghoulishly fun adventure game that borrows many of the best elements from LucasArts adventure games. If the designers of this game happen to read this; please make a sequel or a prequel.