One of the first things I noticed Victor Vran did well is movement. The setting is well realized, with a Victorian England-style horror, but it, again, isn't terribly interesting just because it's been done so many times before. The voice over work is really well done, including Geralt of Rivia himself Doug Cockle voicing the title character with the exact same voice mannerisms as Geralt. The game has a pretty prevalent narrative running throughout, with a few twists and turns, though it's not terribly interesting and pretty much just serves as an explanation for the setting. Victor Vran has you playing as the titular character, a demon hunter who has arrived to the scene of a massive demon outbreak while trying to find one of his lost compatriots. It just doesn't quite get where it needs to go, and every time I played it, I found myself wanting to go play Diablo for the umpteenth time. It's a damn fine game, with a lot of really good ideas and strengths. Victor Vran, unfortunately, does not have the X factor.īut that doesn't make it a bad game.
There's an X factor that comes with the territory, and it seems that dungeon crawlers can do everything right on paper, and still just not quite have that special quality that makes the great ones great. It's a strange situation, because dungeon crawlers are one of the most routinely formulaic video game genres of all one of few that does the same thing over and over on purpose.
I played Champions of Norrath on the Playstation 2 for untold amounts of time as a kid, and since then I've been chasing that dragon, with no game ever truly filling the hole Champions left behind.
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