Difference between revisions of "Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines"

The Player Character goes to several bars throughout the game. These bars are required to be visited to receive certain quests. The Player Character never drinks alcohol.

Rats can be fed on in the game for minor amounts of blood. Feeding on the rats kills them. This is not required in the game.

The red water in the Nosferatu haven is toxic and will harm the Player Character if touched.

If the Player Character chooses to help Yukie (found in Chinatown’s ramen shop), they will go up against a man that turns into a giant fish creature. The Player Character must defeat the man to complete the quest. The quest is optional.

Ming Xiao turns into a giant fish/octopus monster after the Player Character confronts her. The Player Character must fight and defeat her. This is required to complete the game if the player chooses to side with anyone but Ming Xiao at the end of the game.

In the haunted house level, the calls of crows or ravens can be heard from outside. They never get close to the player, however.

Nosferatu history, Cadaverous Flesh says that the character’s body is attempting to rot.

The Player Character’s sire is beheaded on screen in the opening cutscene.

One major quest is to investigate the disappearance of a bounty hunter. This takes you to Mr. Gimble, a man who cuts off others’ body parts. He will attack the Player Character in an attempt to do this.

In Mr. Gimble’s shop, the Player Character finds a man who has had a finger cut off. The finger is not visible.

Mr. Gimble’s shop gives the Player Character a severed arm as a weapon.

A torso missing limbs is found in Mr. Gimble’s basement.

In the 609 King’s Way house, the main enemy reveals that he has been purposefully twisting humans into monsters. This is not shown on screen.

A skeleton is found on a bed at the end of the Grout’s mansion level.

There are skeletons in the sewer section after 609 King’s Way and the Nosferatu haven.

Blood is present on the opening screen.

Blood is ever-present throughout the game. The Player Character drinks blood and gives blood to others. Blood is also an unavoidable side effect of combat and several Non-Player Characters bleed copious amounts of blood in cutscenes.

While investigating DMP productions for Isaac’s movie quest, the Player Character will encounter enemies that explode in a shower of blood when killed.

The boss room in the Sabbat haven is completely covered in blood.

In the tutorial level, there is a vampire that summons ghostly wolves that devour other vampires.

After blowing up the warehouse in Santa Monica, the Player Character meets Beckett, a character that is first introduced as a wolf. He transforms into a human to speak with the Player Character.

After the Player Character finds Nines in the park, they are chased by a werewolf. This chase is required to complete the game.

In the basement of the abandoned apartment complex (during the documentary quest), there is a vampire that eats people instead of drinking their blood, Pisha. Her first appearance shows her eating a body and she has blood smeared across her face while talking.

After meeting Pisha, the player can send two people to her to get eaten.

Multiple quests require the Player Character to crawl through ventilation systems. Many of these quests are required to complete the game.

In the haunted house level for Therese’s quest, the Player Character must enter a small dumbwaiter to gain entry to the second floor and an elevator will break and fall on top of the Player Character.

If the player chooses to side against Lacroix, they will have to go through Lacroix’s tower. To do this, they must be inside an elevator when the elevator breaks down. The Player Character also must crawl through a small pipe.

The haunted house that the Player Character goes to for Therese uses darkness and shadow to frighten the player. There are areas that are extremely dark and ghosts will appear out of nowhere in some areas. This quest is required to complete the game.

Enemies briefly stay as dead bodies on screen after they are killed. They will disappear after a short time.

Dead bodies in various stages of mutilation and decay are found in every combat level, i.e. every location the Player Character goes to in order to complete a quest. They are all graphically rendered.

After completing the Society of Leopold quest, when the Player Character goes back to Lacroix to report there are dead bodies littered around the building. This is required to complete the game.

At the end of the game Jack will be sitting with a dead mummy.

Jeanette accuses Therese of murdering their father. She graphically describes the murder. Therese counters that their father committed suicide. She blames Jeanette for his suicide because Jeanette was a “bad child”.

If the player chooses to side with one sister or the other during the Voerman sisters’ arguments, one sister will kill the other. This is not shown on screen.

At the Sabbat hideout, the Player Character’s ghoul will be murdered on screen. This can be avoided by either telling Heather to go away immediately when she asks to become your ghoul, or by telling her to leave you before going to the Society of Leopold.

The vampires disregard humans as little more than “juicebags” and/or cattle. They often talk dismissively about humans.

The Player Character can create “blood dolls” in clubs in the game. This involves seducing women and using them whenever the Player Character needs to get blood.

While investigating DMP productions for Isaac’s movie quest, the Player Character will interrogate a man who dehumanizes homeless people and runaways, saying that killing them for snuff films is “doing them a favor”.

At the Fu Syndicate building the Player Character will be subjected to a series of dangerous tests designed to kill the Player Character. The main boss of this area will insist it is because the Player Character is subhuman and must be studied to “find the most efficient way to kill you”. During this time he will refer to the Player Character as “the subject” and often not address them directly.

In the Sabbat hideout there are people standing around with their eyes gauged out. They are ostensibly there as food for the Sabbat vampires. They cannot react to anything and will stand there until fed upon.

After speaking with Johansen during the Society of Leopold quest, Bach will detonate explosives in the caves. There is a loud explosion noise and the entire area begins to shake similar to an earthquake. The Player Character must escape in a certain time limit or die.

In the construction area in Lacroix's tower there is a suicide bomber.

The Society of Leopold, Ming Xiao’s lair, and Lacroix’ tower all use military-like units with military grade weapons to protect them. The Player Character must fight the Society of Leopold, Ming Xiao, and/or Lacroix’s forces to complete the game.

In the construction area in Lacroix's tower there is a suicide bomber.

The thin-bloods met on Santa Monica Beach consider their condition a disease.

The quest from Strauss involves tracing a blood-borne disease in the city. It is called a plague and is spread by several different vampires that the Player Character must kill. Several people during the quest line die on screen from the disease.

Female Malkavian history Ex-Gymnist Stripper describes how the Player Character had absentee parents.

If the player decides to side with Ming Xiao at the end of the game, she will push the Player Character into the ocean in the final cutscene. The Player Character cannot drown since they are a vampire, but it is implied that they will sink to the bottom and never be able to get out.

The Brujah power Potence creates electricity around the vampire’s hands and when the vampire hits an enemy this electricity transfers to the enemy. This can be somewhat avoided by not using Potence as a Brujah, but other vampires will use it in the game.

There are several electric rooms throughout the game that will electrocute and immediately kill the Player Character if they are touched. They are located in the following areas.

• Grout’s Mansion, immediately after opening the secret bookcase door
• Fu Sydicate testing room

The loading screens will sometimes talk about how bleak and meaningless life is in the game’s world.

The first mission in Santa Monica involves picking up explosives and planting them to blow up a building.

Therese’s quest to go to a haunted house involves random lights and appliances exploding loudly and shrapnel hitting the Player Character.

If the Player Character touches the lasers in the Society of Leopold level, explosives will go off loudly with fire and instantly kill the Player Character.

After speaking with Johansen during the Society of Leopold quest, Bach will detonate explosives in the caves. There is a loud explosion noise and the entire area begins to shake. The Player Character must escape in a certain time limit or die.

The sorcerer mini-boss in the Sabbat hideout fights with explosions.

If the player chooses to side with Lacroix, the Anarchs, or chooses to go it alone at the end of the game, Lacroix will open the sarcophagus to reveal bombs have been planted inside. Then Lacroix Tower will be blown up. This also happens if the player chooses to open the sarcophagus.

Bruja history “Glass Eye” describes the injury that caused the character to have a glass eye. The glass eye is not visible during gameplay.

A quest received from Mr. Ox (owner of the White Cloud shop) requires the Player Character to retrieve a pair of eyes from a dead body. This quest is not required to complete the game.

The final poster reward from Gary’s poster quest is a poster of a woman without any eyes.

In the Sabbat hideout there are people standing around with their eyes gauged out.

Fire is present on the opening screen.

All vampires burst into flame when they are killed. It is required to kill several vampires throughout the game.

Therese’s quest involves going to a haunted house. Certain parts of the house will burst into flames. It is unclear whether or not this is an illusion created by the ghosts or an actual fire, but the fire will harm the Player Character if touched. This quest is required to complete the game.

Grout’s mansion is set on fire at the end of the quest. The Player Character must escape the burning mansion in a certain amount of time. All enemies will be on fire and if the Player Character steps in fire the Player Character will also be on fire.

Enemies later in the game use incendiary rounds that will briefly set the Player Character on fire and do lingering damage.

Therese’s quest early in the game involves going to a haunted house. The ghosts are poltergeist-like, causing things to be thrown at the Player Character, lights exploding, etc. The ghosts also appear to the Player Character throughout the house. This quest is required to complete the game.

The fighting mechanics of this game are very graphic. Blood spurting from injured enemies is extremely common and beat up characters’ wounds are graphically depicted.

In the warehouse across the street from The Last Round, there is an impaled corpse that is missing its head and some limbs. It is graphically rendered.

In the Sabbat hideout there are bodies strung up as decorations in the beginning area and the final boss’s room. They are graphically rendered and very mutilated.

The fighting mechanics of this game are very graphic. Blood spurting from injured enemies is extremely common and beat up characters’ wounds are graphically depicted. Dead bodies are shown with graphic wounds as well.

After getting the film for Isaac, the Player Character must watch the film. The film contains the graphic depiction of a woman’s murder by supernatural creatures.

If the Player Character chooses to side with Ming Xiao, Lacroix will be beheaded on screen.

The Player Character is required to use a gun in the beginning tutorial section.

The Player Character can pick up and use a variety of guns throughout the game.

Enemies will often use guns. These guns range from simple pistols to military-grade artillery.

Gunshot sounds are extremely common throughout the game.

The loading screens and dialogue options about the Giovanni family mention that incest is very common amongst them.

The final boss of the Sabbat hideout has an insect-like fighting form. However he only has two eyes and his body is human.

In Therese’s quest to go to a haunted house, there are multiple scripted jump scares. This includes people appearing out of nowhere and running at the Player Character, lights exploding suddenly, and things crashing down from the ceiling suddenly. This quest is required to complete the game.

In the museum by the stairs there is a giant T-rex head that will roar suddenly when approached.

After investigating Room 2 at the Luckee Star Motel for Isaac’s movie quest, the Player Character must go to the internet café. While the Player Character explores, monsters will suddenly jump out at the Player Character and attack. This begins after using the key on the door in the back room.

At the 609 King’s Way house and the sewers section immediately afterwards the same monsters appear and will jump out at the Player Character suddenly.

After defeating the boss in the Library, a Tzimise creation is hiding in the exit elevator that will jump out and attack the player character.

In the patched version of the game, when the Player Character first arrives at the grand entry area it will be empty. However if the Player Character goes to the first floor it will suddenly be full of enemies that will immediately attack. This appears to be a glitch.

The boss at the top of Lacroix's tower will teleport and reappear immediately behind the Player Character and attack.

After speaking to Wong Ho in Chinatown for the first time, it is revealed that his daughter has been kidnapped. The Player Character must rescue her from her kidnappers. This quest is required to complete the game.

In the Administration room in the hospital the Player Character can hack personnel files to find out that one of the doctors has been sexually assaulting his patients. This is not shown in the game.

Mr. Gimble is a prosthetic maker that went insane and instead of helping others cuts off their limbs for his “collection”.

The audio diaries Grout’s mansion show the doctor slowly going mad and beginning to abuse his patients. This can be avoided by not examining the tape recorders in the mansion.

The enemies in Grout’s mansion appear to be patients that he has tortured. They have torturous looking devices strapped to their bodies and faces.

Grout’s mansion, though not an official mental health institution, was apparently remodeled by Grout to become one. There are cells and other hallmarks in the basement. Grout is obviously abusive towards his “patients”. It is unclear where these “patients” come from.

The Ventrue and Teremere clans gain an ability called Dominate that allows them to mind-control others. This option will be highlighted in red if it is available. The power is never required to be used.

The Brujah ,Ventrue, and Toreador clans gain an ability called Presence that functions the same way as Dominate. It is not required to be used in the game.

If the Player Character is rude to Lacroix and refuses to do missions for him, he will use Dominate to force the Player Character to do them.

If the player chooses to side against Lacroix, they will have to fight through Lacroix’s tower. In the construction area Lacroix has mind-controlled a man to talk for him and be a suicide bomber.

The Player Character’s sire is beheaded on screen in the opening cutscene.

All enemies throughout the game are sentient humanoids, thus killing anyone in the game constitutes murder. Murdering others is required to complete the game. The murders are graphically depicted and shown on screen.

The haunted house quest for Therese involves a backstory of a man murdering his family. There are articles detailing this in the level that are required to be read to complete the game.

Jeanette accuses Therese of murdering their father. She graphically describes the murder.

After meeting Pisha, the player can send two people to her to get eaten.

After getting the film for Isaac, the Player Character must watch the film. The film contains the graphic depiction of a woman’s murder by supernatural creatures.

At the Sabbat hideout, the Player Character’s ghoul will be murdered on screen. This can be avoided by either telling Heather to go away immediately when she asks to become your ghoul, or by telling her to leave you before going to the Society of Leopold.

Mercurio is badly beaten in the game. He talks about his injuries in graphic detail.

One major quest is to investigate the disappearance of a bounty hunter. This takes you to Mr. Gimble, a man who cuts off others’ body parts. He will attack the Player Character in an attempt to do this.

In Mr. Gimble’s shop, the Player Character finds a man who has had a finger cut off. The finger is not visible.

Mr. Gimble’s shop gives the Player Character a severed arm as a weapon.

After going to Downtown for the first time, the Player Character will be attacked by Sabbat. They will threaten to tear off/out various body parts.

In the warehouse across the street from The Last Round, there is an impaled corpse that is missing its head and some limbs. It is graphically rendered.

In the Sabbat hideout there are bodies strung up as decorations in the beginning area and the final boss’s room. They are graphically rendered and very mutilated.

If the Player Character chooses to do the poster quest for Gary (beginning with an e-mail from him requesting a copy of “Tap Hotel”), they will receive posters of nude and half-nude female characters from the game. These posters will automatically be displayed in the Player Character’s haven and cannot be taken down.

Multiple characters swear throughout the game. There are some characters where literally every sentence of dialogue has some sort of swear word.

The game itself is considered part of the horror genre, however there is are only two levels that are clearly meant to inspire paranoia and fear at the psychological level. *For Therese’s quest the Player Character must go to a haunted house. The ghosts are poltergeist-like, causing things to be thrown at the Player Character, lights exploding, etc. The ghosts will also suddenly appear and disappear and attempt to attack the Player Character. Coupled with a disturbing backstory for the ghosts, the overall feeling of the level is oppressive and fearful. It is also important to note that the level is an obvious tribute to the film The Shining and borrows some imagery and plot elements from the film. This quest is required to complete the game.

• If the player enters the abandoned hospital down the street from Lacroix’s tower, they will find a filmmaker babbling about a monster. Exploring the hospital will lead the Player Character through a series of creepy rooms complete with music and screams of others that lead to a sense of paranoia and fear. This is not required to complete the game, however it is required to get certain quests from Pisha.

It is implied that Therese and Jeanette’s problems stem from the trauma of being abused by their father as children.

Rats are found in the sewer system. The player can hear them while going through the sewers.

The boss at the top of Lacroix’s tower summons bats to attack the Player Character and also turns into a giant bat during the second part of the fight. He also has humanoid bat minions that will attack.

In the hospital there is a red-headed girl that the player can choose to save. If the player chooses to save her, they will cut open their wrist to give the girl blood. No bleeding from the wrist is shown.

In the quest with Mr. Gimble, it is revealed via dialogue that Gimble cut off his own arm to better understand prosthetics. To avoid this dialogue the player must not click the “Tell me more about yourself” dialogue option.

The game begins with the Player Character having sex with an unknown person. The sex itself is not shown on screen.

The Player Character can choose to have sexual relations with prostitutes in order to get blood. No sex is shown on screen.

If the Player Character chooses to side with Jeanette during the sisters’ argument, the Player Character will be able to have sex with Jeanette. This is a black screen with bed creaking and moaning noises.

In the alley to the right of Confessions in the Downtown area, there is a man getting a blowjob.

The Player Character can choose to have sex with Romero in the Graveyard if their seduction score is high enough. This leads to a black screen with moaning noises.

A female Toreador character can have a history called “Slut” that criticizes her for being promiscuous. It is not required to be selected.

Therese constantly criticizes Jeanette for sleeping around.

If the player chooses to accept a quest from Venus at the Confession club in the Downtown area, she will reveal that she has been forced to sleep with Boris in order to keep her club running.

It is revealed that the Voreman sisters were sexually abused by their father when they were young.

Male Gangrel History “Perv” implies that the player character was obsessed with women and would have sex with them regardless of their interest.

In the Administration room in the hospital the Player Character can hack personnel files to find out that one of the doctors has been sexually assaulting his patients. This is not shown in the game.

The female Malkavian clothing is highly sexualized and objectifies the Player Character. Each armor upgrade is a fetishized costume.

A history for a female Brujah character called “Voyeur Website Model” that states that the Player Character stripped on camera for money. This history is not required to be selected.

There are prostitutes throughout the game that are dressed in revealing outfits.

Male Gangrel History “Perv” implies that the player character was obsessed with women and would have sex with them regardless of their interest.

The characters Jeanette (Asylum club), Venus (Confessions club), and V.V. (Vesuvius strip club) are dressed in revealing clothing.

The Player Character must visit multiple strip clubs throughout the game and for Isaac’s quest must go through a porn set.

In the Lotus Blossom spa in Chinatown there are scantily clad women wandering around.

If the Player Character chooses to do the poster quest for Gary (beginning with an e-mail from him requesting a copy of “Tap Hotel”), they will receive posters of nude and half-nude female characters from the game. These posters will automatically be displayed in the Player Character’s haven and cannot be taken down.

If the player chooses to save the red-haired girl in the hospital with their blood, the girl will become the Player Character’s ghoul. This means that the girl is addicted to the Player Character’s blood and the Player Character has a certain amount of control over her actions. The player can choose whether or not to accept her as a “slave” or to reject her.

Male Gangrel History “Perv” implies that the player character was obsessed with women and would have sex with them regardless of their interest.

Nosferatu Male History “Peeping Tom” implies that the player character would use computers to spy on women.

In the Skyline Apartments in the Downtown area, it is revealed that the security guard has placed cameras in all the apartments and is spying on the residents. If the player reads through the Apartment Notes in the computer in the basement, they find out that the security guard is planning on stealing a woman’s underwear.

If the player chooses to save the red-haired girl in the hospital, she will become the Player Character’s ghoul. After completing Lacroix’s first quest Downtown, the girl will approach the Player Character and reveal that she has been stalking them. She states that she did this because she wanted to be “helpful” to the Player Character.

There is an optional side quest that involves planting cameras in a woman’s apartment. The quest is received from the female Nosferatu in the Nosferatu’s lair. It is not required to complete the game.

There are several quests and areas, particularly Skyline Apartments, where the Player Character must break into others' homes. There may or may not be people home; if there are then the Player Character must sneak around to avoid being noticed.

If the player chooses to save the red-haired girl in the hospital with their blood, the girl will become the Player Character’s ghoul. This means that the girl is addicted to the Player Character’s blood and will do whatever the Player Character tells her to do for a “fix”.

The all vampires in the game are addicted to blood. In addition, all ghouls are addicted to blood. No withdrawal is shown on screen.

The pestilence quest received from Strauss/Damsel ends in a level that is called “The Crackhouse”.

In the Giovanni mansion, if the player explores there are two women doing lines of cocaine in one of the bathrooms.

The Malkavian power Vision of Death will cause the victim to commit suicide via strangling themselves. The power Bedlam can also possibly cause it. These powers are not required to be used in the game.

In the haunted house that Therese asks the Player Character to go to, there are newspaper articles detailing how a man killed his family and then killed himself. The article is required to be read to complete the game.

Therese states that her father committed suicide. She blames Jeanette for his suicide because Jeanette was a “bad child”.

If the player completes the mission for Imalia to plant cameras in Tawni’s apartment, Tawni will kill herself. It is not shown on screen.

If the Player Character sides against Lacroix, they will have to fight their way through Lacroix’s tower. In the construction area of the tower there is a suicide bomber.

The game revolves around amoral vampires. The Player Character is a vampire that must kill others and feed on blood to survive.

The explanation for bloodlust in the game is the Beast, a force within all vampires that drives them to become monsters. This is implied to be some sort of supernatural force.

In the Library quest (available in the patched version of the game) there appears to be some sort of satanic ritual happening in the basement.

The Ankaran Sarcophagus in the game is purported to contain some sort of evil being. Multiple characters throughout the game state that the thing inside is an evil that will bring about the apocalypse.

If the player explores the rooms in Mr. Gimble’s basement they will find torture implements.

The enemies in Grout’s mansion appear to be patients that he has tortured. They have torturous looking devices strapped to their bodies and faces. There are also areas with torture implements in Grout’s inner sanctuary.

The basement of DMP productions (found in Isaac’s quest), has instruments of torture.

At the Fu Syndicate building the Player Character will be subjected to a series of dangerous tests designed to kill the Player Character

The basement of the Giovanni mansion has instruments of torture.

The game revolves around vampires, who are by definition undead.

In the pestilence quest received from Strauss/Damsel, the final level in the crackhouse requires the Player Character to fight zombies. They are not rotting but they do moan and shuffle like typical zombies. If they get too close they can grab the Player Character and begin to suck on their head. A “BRAINS” meter appears at the bottom of the screen and it drains health. This quest is not required to complete the game.

In the graveyard in Chinatown there is an optional quest where the Player Character must prevent hordes of zombies from leaving the graveyard. The zombies are in various stages of decay and moan.

The Player Character must fight zombies in the basement of the Giovanni mansion. The zombies here function the same way as the zombies in the pestilence quest above. This quest is required to complete the game.

If the player chooses to play as a Malkavian, the Player Character will manifest signs of mental instability, which lead to hallucinations. The Malkavian will hallucinate people and things on the streets, talk to inanimate objects, and in the Player Character’s apartment the television will begin talking to the Player Character.

Therese’s quest involves going to a haunted house. Throughout the level ghosts will appear and disappear in certain places throughout the house. In addition, several rooms in the house are revealed to be illusions and will alternate between new and dilapidated. In particular, one room’s floor will almost completely disappear after the Player Character completes part of the quest. This quest is required to complete the game.

The Tremere Haven in the Downtown area is bigger on the inside than it appears. The corridors twist and turn and the Player Character can end up where they started if they take a wrong turn. It is implied that this is due to the building being magically enchanted to be confusing and difficult to navigate.

If the Player Character looks up Imalia on the computer in the Hollywood computer café, there will be a short article detailing how Imalia’s car ran off the road and crashed, then burned. This is later revealed to be untrue.

Therese is verbally abusive to her sister throughout their quest lines. The cutscenes showing this are required to complete the game.

The Anarchs are initially verbally abusive towards the Player Character. If the Player Character is nice to them they will become kinder.

In the haunted house that Therese asks the Player Character to go to, there are newspaper articles detailing how a child was murdered in the hotel/house and his severed head was found in a laundry room. It is required to read this article to complete the game.

If a Ventrue character drinks blood from a low class person or a rat they will vomit up the blood. This can be avoided by either not playing a Ventrue or by being careful about who the Player Character feeds on.

In the hospital there is a red-headed girl in one of the rooms. She will vomit blood when the Player Character approaches her.

In the crackhouse as part of the pestilence quest received from Strauss/Damsel, if the Player Character drinks the blood of the zombies they will vomit it back up, complete with gagging and choking noises. This can be avoided by not drinking any zombie blood in the crackhouse.

To get into the Giovanni mansion, the Player Character must talk to a couple standing near the taxi. After talking with both of them, the woman will begin to vomit.

The player character is required to use weapons throughout the game. These include axes, baseball bats, swords, etc. Enemies also use weapons against the Player Character.