There’s something to be said about the value of making the player character feel like an unstoppable and powerful force, but BloodRayne’s combat unfortunately feels like there’s a ‘God Mode’ setting that you can’t turn off. Meanwhile, if you’re running low on health, you can just tap ‘Y’ next to the nearest humanoid enemy and watch as Rayne effortlessly latches onto them and sucks their blood while they put up zero resistance, getting back at least a quarter of her health bar in the process. That important connection that usually exists between your attacks and the enemy’s reaction in other games is basically nonexistent here. Swiping at enemies with your swords or blasting them with a shotgun doesn’t make them stumble or fall back in the way you’d expect them to, which means most encounters devolve to you mashing a button a few times until the enemy just suddenly falls over or explodes or something. The problem here is that there’s no meaningful feedback, and the balance is all over the place.

One would think that the combat in a release that’s ostensibly focused around it would be at least worth the price of admission, but BloodRayne drops the ball again. It’s in that ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ category.

It’s far from a gripping narrative, and it’s not helped at all by the dull, bored performances from the voice cast, but there’s something vaguely alluring to be found in what a schlocky mess the story turns out to be. Hitler has formed a secret organization to investigate how the occult can be utilized to aid the Nazi effort, and this has resulted in Rayne being called in to deal with the problems which that obviously has started to cause. While it may have a mildly interesting premise in 2002, BloodRayne ReVamped is a boring, shoddy, and nearly-broken mess of a game that you should definitely avoid.īloodRayne places you in the role of Rayne, a half-human half-vampire ‘dhampir’ living in the '30s during the height of the Nazi regime. Some games are best left in the past, and BloodRayne is one of them. But, just because a game is retro, doesn’t mean it needs to be revisited. There’s value in this, however, as it’s wonderful to have great games that were previously locked to old platforms brought onto modern devices with improvements and additions. These days, it feels like every other ‘new’ game being released is a remake or a remaster of some old game. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)

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