Just before the start of Gamescom, Team Cherry announced that it had something big to share about Hollow Knight: Silksong later in the week. The most obvious culprit? A release date finally being set for the game. And while that story has overshadowed all else since then, Silksong isn’t the only long-awaited game we may finally get our hands on this year. In 2019, the same year that Silksong was announced, the sequel to a cult hit RPG was also revealed, and after six years, it finally has a release date for this year — but the update was immediately followed by a much less welcome detail about the launch.
Since its release in 2004, Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines has been called one of the best RPGs of all time, despite even its fans admitting that it has heaps of issues. Buggy and unpolished, with clumsy combat, Bloodlines is nonetheless considered a masterpiece, thanks to its fantastic writing and an almost overwhelming degree of player freedom in shaping the narrative.
