While Swansong features satisfying investigations, it isn’t free of jank. It was one of the most rewarding puzzles I’ve solved in a game recently. Then, I had to cross-reference that with a picture taken on that character’s birthday in another room to find the correct code.
To find a combination to a safe at one point, I had to learn that it was a specific character’s birthday via a text message I found on a phone in the victim’s bedroom. It won’t mark every potential clue players come across, so there are some puzzles that require the player to use their own intuition to solve.
Puzzling it outĪlthough not all of Swansong’s characters will be investigators by profession, the game’s puzzles achieve that sleuthing fantasy better than its peers. As Big Bad Wolf promises that Swansong will have lots of ending permutations, the stakes are high as players uncover information and interrogate suspects and witnesses. It also added a more captivating risk-versus-reward layer to conversations, which helped me immerse myself in roleplaying a detective that only asks all the right questions. While I didn’t see the effects of this system in the time I played, killing people while satiating a character’s hunger meter will have a noticeable impact on the story. The main character’s hunger for blood will grow after using these abilities, so players must drink the blood of some victims around the crime scene while keeping up the investigation. In some confrontations, players will need to use these skills to persuade or intimidate the person they’re talking to like it’s an RPG fight. Like a tabletop RPG, Swansong allows players to fully spec out their character with various skills that give benefits or additional options in dialogue. A unique part of this process is the “dialogue fight” system, which returns from developer Big Bad Wolf’s previous title The Council. Players walk around, speak to people, and collect items to gain the necessary information to progress. I had to interview characters and thoroughly investigate the crime scene to find important documents about the Primogen Council. The banker had valuable information on the Primogen Council, a high authority in the vampiric underworld. My demo saw Galeb Bazory, a 300-year old vampire pretending to be an FBI agent, looking into the death of a banker named Jason Moore. Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong | Gameplay Reveal
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