>>718708785
I dig the modern day Seattle in Christmas atmosphere of the game, the soundtrack is also nice. I know Schaffer is gone but let's face it, the first game was a thing of its era and its no longer 20 years ago. I love the first game to death despite its shortcomings but I'm glad the new devs aren't try to replicate it.
That being said I'm not really sold on the railroaded approach this one has. The lack of a proper skill system that is based on the tabletop character sheet means there won't be any "skill" checks for dialogue or other stuff, which can reduce the replayability greatly. In the first game you can pick a Ventrue and put points into your social and dominate, so you can pass speech checks and whatnot. I don't know if you can do that as Ventrue now.