This was cute! Comedic takes on Dracula, I feel, are a bit more common nowadays than works that take him seriously — moreso than any of his gothic horror contemporaries — but the writing here did well to take it in a different direction than most and genuinely caught me off guard during a couple of moments. I also appreciate the small scale of the adventure game design: with only a handful of rooms and only a handful of things you can interact with, it's much less likely you gloss over anything during your search, and worst comes to worst it's not too much of a time investment to brute force anything. The puzzles felt inventive and possessed some fairly clever solutions, though one of them in particular I felt like I could've received more direction on — I thought I had the right answer but I wasn't entirely sure how I was meant to apply it, the obvious routes in particular either not being selectable or resulting in generic dialogue. The voice acting is... hit or miss: while a good portion of it works fairly well, other parts stand out for... not having great sound quality, or otherwise feeling kind of off. Overall, though, I enjoyed this! It's maybe more of a 👍/10 for me than anything that'll really stick, but even then looks neat, it's fairly short, and I like this particular take on a comedic Dracula. Check it out! I wouldn't sleep on this.

Reviewed on Oct 13, 2023


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