All the screenshots are taken from the game The Blood of Dawnwalker created by Rebel Wolves. I did not create this game.
Last time I only watched opening cinematic of this game. It showed us our character running with his little sick sister in his hands. After a short while he was surounded by a local lord and his thugs. They wanted to kill our sister(and probably us as well). But then vampire ruler and his minions appeared and slaughtered those soldiers and their lord. Then vampire boss cured our sister and declared himself new ruler.
This time we finally started the game for real. Our character Coen had a nightmare. In it we and our father were working in the fields. Then the rest of our family came and we were suppose to to take a break and eat some food. But our little sister went missing so we went looking for her. Then we found her some soldier wanted to kill her. But it turned out that our sister became a vampire after her interaction with vampire ruler. Then one of the soldiers stabbed us. Our sister fed us some blood and turned us to a vampire as well. We killed the soldiers and soon after that we woke up from the nightmare.
Then we woke up we made some firewood. And joined our family for breakfast. Coen's fater Pieter tried to feed his wife but she refused to eat anything. We tried as well. But mother still refused to eat. Then Pieter send our siblings away and we tried to force mother to eat. But even this did not work. It seems that our mother has some mental problems that are deeper than just fear of Brencis(vampire ruler) and his minions. This is bad because all adults have to participate in some vampires ritual(I assume vampires will just drink some our blood?) So the father asked us to go get stronger medicine from healer/herbalist.
After that we went outside. The world looks stunning even on low settings. Also this game is quite innovative because in it doing quests progress games time. This means that time in this game is finite and precious resource. It is a shame that some players are already modding the game to change this. I for one found this time passing mechanic fascinating. I think that it adds to game's replayability. Our father asked us to hurry and return as soon as we can but I wanted to try doing a few side quests. We soon run into some old woman who had to make a banner for the vampire overlord who now rules these lands. She told us that the banner was stolen so vampires will likely tear her to pieces. We agreed to help her find the stolen banner. We found some clues soon. The thief was sloppy and got injured while taking away a banner. Also he was using a crane. This meant that our list of suspects should be quite limited. Still we found a few suspects. After a bit more investigation we found the thief. His name was Premysl. And that naive fool seriously believed that he is fighting vampires invasion by stealing a banner. We convinced him the error of his ways and he returned the banner.
Then we went to find the local healer and buy medicine for our mother. Healer was doing some weird ritual by the river and her hand had strange markings/ scars. We bought the medicine and went back home.
After that we met our three siblings and went fishing together. Sadly before we could catch anything we were rudely interrupted. By officer serving the vampire ruler. This dude was putting his too long nose into our business and asking too many questions about our father Pieter. This was already annoying enough but after we refused to answer he even dared to threaten our little siblings so we decided to teach him a lesson. This proved to be a bad idea. Mostly because Coen fought with his bare hands against an officer who had a sword. Still we were saved by some monster who was also serving vampires but was that officers superior.
Then we met another fool who kept bad mouthing us and our family. So we caught and beat him up. His father saw this happen and said that his stupid son was not beaten enough yet. I am quite curious how evil can we roleplay our character Coen. I had two reasons for this curiosity. First my favorite playthroughs of Mass effect/ dragon age were of me playing a renegade/ a bit evil character. And also this game is made by the same people who made The witcher. But Coen is not Geralt. So I wanted to remind myself that and try doing some deeds Geralt would not do. So we gladly agreed to take a stick and beat that idiot even more. Sucks to be him.
After that we went home. And saw our father Pieter arguing with some guy named Vladimir. After that he went away. We prepared the medicine for our mother(I have no idea if I did it right. I assumed that Coen will do it automatically so I did not pay enough attention to healers instructions. I gues this is a good thing- maybe we will see some dire/real qoncenqences to our actions?). After that we went to spar with our dad. He beat us and then told us that Vladimir wants him to rebel against vampire overlord and lead the villages to some mines. Our father Pieter still was not sure what he do.
So far the story is captivating. I am also playing Zero parades for dead spies and it is a really great game so far. But after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker for about a hour I already believe that this game will be just as good or even better. I really like quests, world and characters in this game. And using time as currency/ resource is very interesting gameplay decision. I can't wait to play more because so far I only scratched the surface of this adventure.
