I think everyone has at least one series they absolutely mark out for—which lights up the animal intrigue zones of your brain whenever its name appears. For me, that's Vampire: The Masquerade, the result of uncountable evenings spent poring over second-edition sourcebooks as a teen, internalising all the wild lore and imbibing an entire vocabulary built around cool words like diablerie, inconnu, antediluvian and monomachy.
So when a PC Gaming Show trailer for Vampire the Masquerade: Eternal Whispers appeared, I leaned forward. When it billed itself as a "narrative-driven RPG", my eyes widened, and when that beloved and familiar Disco-Elysium-style vertical dialogue box unfurled down the side of the screen? I started hooting in my seat like a very excited and vampiric ape.
