Renfield was a movie that I had really no interest in until seeing that the director of the film also directed some of the best episodes of the Adult Swim show Moral Orel which is one of my favorite shows ever. To make a long story short it’s a fun gory time and I’m glad I watched it, then I found out that this movie had a weird as fuck movie tie-in game; and I just had to play it. Whenever a new movie releases a tie-in game it’s always a special experience regardless since so many movies don’t bother with them anymore, we’ve gone from having a tie-in game to almost every movie in the first phase of the MCU to having almost none besides the higher quality AAA shit. So when movies like Space Jam 2 bother to go out of their way to make a crappy tie-in game for their crappy movie I get hyped (ngl I love for this shit man).
Anyways the game itself is basically a beat for beat clone of Vampire Survivors just with levels with actual design and sprites that move. Pretty much everything else is just a carryover from Vampire Survivors; so if you liked Vampire Survivors I’m sure you’ll like this. Personally I don’t really care for Vampire Survivors, I think having the whole game just being a grind and besides lore it doesn't have a lot to offer me something I’d play over and over again. With Renfield it’s not really all that different and I honestly find it boring after 30 minutes but the sprite work and music kept me around longer than Vampire Survivors did so I guess that’s something. I liked it about as much as I liked the movie; pretty good.
Anyways the game itself is basically a beat for beat clone of Vampire Survivors just with levels with actual design and sprites that move. Pretty much everything else is just a carryover from Vampire Survivors; so if you liked Vampire Survivors I’m sure you’ll like this. Personally I don’t really care for Vampire Survivors, I think having the whole game just being a grind and besides lore it doesn't have a lot to offer me something I’d play over and over again. With Renfield it’s not really all that different and I honestly find it boring after 30 minutes but the sprite work and music kept me around longer than Vampire Survivors did so I guess that’s something. I liked it about as much as I liked the movie; pretty good.
You are a Vampire and you are trying to Survive
I would say "I've made the mistake of watching Renfield the movie" but at least playing this game is a better experience than the movie!
If you're not familiar with this genre:
There are countless and countless of enemies running locked-in to you and you're trying to not get hit by them and kill them. That's it (some people call it "reverse bullet hell"). Every enemy drops exp and you level up, grow stronger or get different powers to make your build better.
This game is kind of a different take on the genre. I would say I played many games of this genre and this has pretty different takes on the regular formula (for the better or worse).
•The game has limited maps, it's not endless run arounds but also they are not just boxes as well. It's an actual map with rooms and every room has some destructible and indestructible structure (these ones can be used for defense)
•The exp system is the most different of these kinda games. Since in the movie our main guy eats bugs to get stronger, the exp in the game are bugs but they just come/walk to your character so there's no magnet power up and if you become just so strong, you can stay still and still gain exp.
•Despite most of the games in this genre, this game kinda pushes you to always run around and not stay still with its characters/powers/builds
•That brings up the jank talk in the game: There are some jank (shocker)! Some of the rooms (especially in the first map) has some ultra-defensive points that covers you in 3 sides and that makes you invincible. But if you stay still at the edges or corners of the rooms, you don't get exp even if you eat the bugs. They just disappear and you gain that much of exp when you clear the room so if you depend on leveling while killing enemies you might consider not doing it.
•Let's just rip the band-aid off: There are no chestsShame on you game! Also for evolving your weapons all you need to do is leveling them up to max level (Lv10). When you do that, the strong enemies drop a crown instead of chests and you use that crown item to evolve your weapon when you level up.
•Saved the best for the last: The music is great! Cool and catchy melodies that will make you bop your head.
PS: I'm pretty much done with this game but if I play more or remember something that I missed, I might maybe update this review...
I played this game thanks to duhnuhnuh's Perpetual Steam Game Giveaway !
I would say "I've made the mistake of watching Renfield the movie" but at least playing this game is a better experience than the movie!
If you're not familiar with this genre:
There are countless and countless of enemies running locked-in to you and you're trying to not get hit by them and kill them. That's it (some people call it "reverse bullet hell"). Every enemy drops exp and you level up, grow stronger or get different powers to make your build better.
This game is kind of a different take on the genre. I would say I played many games of this genre and this has pretty different takes on the regular formula (for the better or worse).
•The game has limited maps, it's not endless run arounds but also they are not just boxes as well. It's an actual map with rooms and every room has some destructible and indestructible structure (these ones can be used for defense)
•The exp system is the most different of these kinda games. Since in the movie our main guy eats bugs to get stronger, the exp in the game are bugs but they just come/walk to your character so there's no magnet power up and if you become just so strong, you can stay still and still gain exp.
•Despite most of the games in this genre, this game kinda pushes you to always run around and not stay still with its characters/powers/builds
•That brings up the jank talk in the game: There are some jank (shocker)! Some of the rooms (especially in the first map) has some ultra-defensive points that covers you in 3 sides and that makes you invincible. But if you stay still at the edges or corners of the rooms, you don't get exp even if you eat the bugs. They just disappear and you gain that much of exp when you clear the room so if you depend on leveling while killing enemies you might consider not doing it.
•Let's just rip the band-aid off: There are no chests
•Saved the best for the last: The music is great! Cool and catchy melodies that will make you bop your head.
PS: I'm pretty much done with this game but if I play more or remember something that I missed, I might maybe update this review...
I played this game thanks to duhnuhnuh's Perpetual Steam Game Giveaway !
It's fine? I think the achievement and unlock requirements are too much of an attempt to force replays though.
Game #41
While I am already over Vampire Survivor clones, I'll take a thousand of them if it means we get bad tie-in games again. As licensed titles go, this is pretty bad. There are no voice lines or really anything too connected to the movie. But the movie's pretty bad, so at least this is better than the film.
While I am already over Vampire Survivor clones, I'll take a thousand of them if it means we get bad tie-in games again. As licensed titles go, this is pretty bad. There are no voice lines or really anything too connected to the movie. But the movie's pretty bad, so at least this is better than the film.
I genuinely appreciate any movie tie in game at this point, especially when it's a good clone and not complete garbage.
Omg a movie tie in game AND a Vampire Survivors-clone.
Numbers don't go up like in Vampire Survivors, but and you can throw a plague rat to do poison damage and collect bugs for exp so that's pretty cool.
It's also an early access game? So maybe wait to see if there's any quality updates.. like iunno, attacks not relying on where the character is facing.
Pretty decent game though.
Numbers don't go up like in Vampire Survivors, but and you can throw a plague rat to do poison damage and collect bugs for exp so that's pretty cool.
It's also an early access game? So maybe wait to see if there's any quality updates.. like iunno, attacks not relying on where the character is facing.
Pretty decent game though.