Games I Like! - Vampire Survivor
by Sasuke! =DHi everyone! How are you all doing? I’m great! I’ve been playing a lot of Vampire Survivor lately and it’s a ton of fun. It’s kinda like a bullet hell shoot ‘em up except my arm isn’t sore after! I like those games but it’s so tiring hitting the fire button over and over all BopBopBopBopBop! Sometimes Shibao and Anzu help me by bopping the fire button as fast as they can while I just move the ship around but even that can be stressful because we all start panicking when a bunch of bullets come at us at once and it’s hard to dodge out of the way. What I really like about Vampire Survivor is it gets rid of all that. I can just focus on moving around and my character shoots stuff on their own. It’s super convenient!
You only start with one hero but there is a TON of stuff to unlock. It took me a while to decide who I want to play as mostly but now I’m all about Mortaccio (He's a skeleton!). The first time I tried him I almost gave up right away. All he did was randomly throw a bone and it took so long for him to throw another! It didn’t make any sense! I was just walking around, trying not to get hit by monsters and collect gems that they drop when they die (you need these to level up, by the way!). Eventually I got some other stuff every time I levelled up like a cross that blasts monsters in the face, and axes that bonk them too. I also got garlic, which is my favorite weapon. It makes an aura around you that hurts baddies. It can even upgrade to something called Soul Eater that really kills monsters fast and heals your hero too. It’s death by stinky breath and its amazing. Anzu gets mad at me when my breath is stinky in real life and makes me brush my teeth but here I can be as stinky as I want to be and it’s making the world a safer place too!
So, the first little bit with Mortaccio was tough because I couldn’t really shoot much and everything felt really slow. It was a little bit stressful too because you mostly get new weapons or upgrade ones you have when you level up. Even then, you have to hope that the game likes you or you might wind up with a bunch random stuff that isn’t very helpful and the monsters still take a long time to die. I think the game was in a good mood this time, though, because it gave me that garlic. I could almost stand still and let the monsters just walk into it and die! It helped so much. Eventually I was able to level up a bit more and get better weapons. The monsters were dying faster and faster and Mortaccio was levelling up more and more.
There were even boss monsters coming to fight me eventually. I could tell they were bosses because they were bigger than the others and took a lot of bops before they died. They even drop treasure chests with gold in them that you use to unlock things and they also give you ability upgrades for stuff you chose while levelling up. I really don’t understand these chests, though. I was being chased by this really big werewolf and it took forever to die. Eventually it did and dropped a chest. I went to get it and all it gave me was around 100 gold and upgraded my axes so that they hit a couple more monsters. I shouted, “What the heck?!?!?”
I always thought big monsters = super cool loot! Did I make the game angry? Should I have shared my cookies with it? Later on I killed a tiny boss that I could only tell was a boss because it was glowing blue. That treasure chest gave me 400 gold and three weapon upgrades. Was the game happy that I put a cookie next to the console? There were other times I left a whole box of cookies next to the console and the game was really mean to me and kept giving me hardly any loot from the chests, or I’d forget to bring cookies and it was really nice to me for some reason. I don’t understand.
I also don’t give up, though, because when the game is super nice to you and gives lots of loot your character can get super strong. Eventually the screen is full of monsters trying to get you and you’re blasting stuff all over the place destroying everything. You turn into a blender then march around and feel unstoppable. A lot of the levels are about trying to survive for 30 minutes and later on as time is running out there is a crazy amount of monsters coming at you. The only tricky part here is that you’re invincible until you’re not invincible. I’ve had a few times where I was melting the whole screen but as time ran out and there was only a couple of minutes left there were just too many monsters. I tried wiggling and jiggling as much as I could trying not to get hit but it wasn’t enough. My shields ran out, my armor wasn’t enough, I couldn’t kill them fast enough. I couldn’t become one with the blender, then with 30 seconds left my character dies. I feel a bit sad, then, but usually I wind up unlocking some stuff and have a ton of gold after, so I can get stronger and might have some new heroes to play as. That’s more than enough to make me want to play again.
Oh, did I mention that the game isn’t too scary even though there are tons of monsters in it? I was a bit worried about this but there were lots of really simple skeletons, bats, ghosts, werewolves and other monsters but they didn’t bother me at all. Anzu lent me one of her blankies to hide under while I played “Just in case!” but I didn’t need to use it even once!
This is definitely a really fun game and a much easier way to play bullet hell games without becoming exhausted. You just have to wiggle and jiggle around the baddies and hopefully get good abilities as you level up. If you have trouble getting good power ups you have to play extra smart to try and survive but usually the monsters will get you eventually. Other times you might get tons of great power ups and become one with the blender. I really like that and it totally makes me want to come back and play some more.
Composed after a particularly wiggly Saturday...
Behold the power of Soul Eater where you kill monsters with mega garlic breath!
When you're almost up to 30 minutes, things get crazy!
There are a bunch of characters to unlock. TONS!
You get a few power ups to choose from when you level up. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't...
These treasure chests are fantastic! Five goodies AND lots of gold!