Going into Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 , I was expecting to dive deep into the Gothic underbelly of vampire society. This would be my first direct exposure to this particular flavor of vampire lore, having not played the original and thus not been tortured by the sequel's beleaguered development or impacted by the PS5 refund controversy .

What the game's marketing led me to believe awaited me in the moon-soaked streets of Seattle was a dynamic and rich RPG where every dialog choice and action I took would be accounted for. However, that's not what Bloodlines 2 really is. It straddles the line between that and its true form, and ends up falling short on both fronts.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Only Masquerades As An RPG

My Choices Hardly Matter, And The

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