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V Rising has been out in Early Access for a while now and has finally released its 1.0 version, which will likely make many survival RPG fans happy. After quite a while of waiting, Stunlock Studios have finally finished their work of art and I have to say it is quite the game.
V Rising is an open world survival game, with crafting mechanics, boss hunts, skill-based combat, and optional PVP, where you play as a newly awakened vampire. There are so many things to do in this game that you aren’t very likely to get easily bored. And, since you can play with a friend or two, you can concentrate on what you like more between farming, crafting, and building, and then work together on defeating powerful and intricate bosses, known as V Bloods, together.
Gameplay and Progression – 9/10
In a classic survival game fashion, you start off the game naked and alone, with nothing to use to combat the harsh world of V Rising. However, after playing for a bit, you will start gathering resources, which will allow you to craft armor and weapons. Later, you will even get to build your own base wherever you want on the map, as long as the place hasn’t been taken by another player.
Once your base is set up, the game will start a repetitive loop where you will leave your base to gather materials, either by farming resource nodes or defeating enemies, and then coming back to build interesting new things or craft new items to increase your Gear Level. Though this part might not sound as interesting as it should, progression does feel relatively natural and fun, as you will need to defeat around 50 bosses to actually unlock new tech and magic. These bosses, known as V Bloods, are special enemies hidden along the open world that have to be defeated in order for the player to advance and become more powerful.
The V Bloods are actually the main attraction of the game, as you spend most of your time preparing to hunt a new boss, with new attack patterns, different skill sets and powers, which you’ll have to get used to as you can often fail to defeat them. Thanks to these bosses, the progression feels natural and the upgrades to the base feel rewarding, as you’ve worked hard to get them and only annoying PVP players can ruin your fun now.
Combat – 10/10
By far the best part of V Rising is the combat. The thing that makes it shine is the way the bosses fight and the freedom that the player has when it comes to battling these monsters. With a large number of spells at my disposal, I’ve often had a lot of fun trying to figure out what the best skill-set would be to use against every V Blood I’ve encountered. Sometimes I had to give up on some of my favorite spells since they just weren’t right for the battle.
The ability to also seamlessly change between weapons during combat can give you a huge advantage in figuring out how to play around with the game’s mechanics and abuse the few moments where the AI wasn’t ready for your second weapon skill.
Since there is no stamina bar and all of the skills are cooldown-based, combat requires some thinking and skill to actually work well. You can’t just expect to mash powers at your enemies and win, you’ll need to plan out when to use your spells and abilities and figure out how to always keep one ready in case something goes wrong.
Generally, I had a lot of fun making new, unique builds with all of the skills and weapons I kept unlocking, and felt like any player would likely love combat. There were many moments where I just stopped from going to my designated destination because some interesting enemy jumped out in front of me and I decided that it’s time for another amazing battle.
Base Building – 10/10
V Rising has some of the best base building mechanics out of the many survival games I’ve ever played. One of the things that shines is that it’s incredibly easy and natural to build an amazing castle. The game rewards players for being organized, something that is generally a foreign term for most survival game fans. Most of the crafting machines and forges will get special speed and resources buffs when placed in enclosed rooms with specific floorings. This usually makes players position related machines in the same rooms, making everything a lot easier to find.
Chests and resource storages are also incredibly well made, since most of them can be specific for a type of resource, and you just need to press a button to deposit what is expected inside the storage or not. This, again, pushes players to know where they’ve placed everything and won’t force them to fight their friends each time they deposit stones in the same chest with weapons and boss loot.
There are also a lot of decorative items that will easily allow you to build a very impressive base, and I’ve noticed I’ve always been impressed with how my bases ended up looking or how enemy castles looked in PVP when breaking down their doors.
Open World – 9/10
Though there aren’t really a lot of friendly NPCs around the continent, the open world of V Rising does feel very much alive. The factions are spread out all over the place, patrolling or living their daily lives. The regions are very interesting, with each one appearing more captivating than the previous one. There is also just a lot to do and explore, as you can always bump into a powerful enemy by accident while traveling, looking for resources, or discover interesting settlements where your enemies are living.
As you get the ability to pretend to be a human, you can start exploring these settlements where all of the humans live and see the details of their daily lives as everyone seems to have something to do every day.
There are a total of 7 regions in the game, each with their specific fauna and flora. The game starts in the Farbane Woods, which is just a gloomy forest full of bandits and wild animals. After that, you get to explore farmlands where most of humanity lives and thrives, dangerous mountainous regions full of dangerous monsters and amazing snowy views, steampunk, radioactive regions full of robots and mad scientists, and the final, most horrifying region, Dracula’s domain.
Enjoyment – 10/10
Overall, V Rising is just a fun game. I have enjoyed every hour I have spent playing the game and have never really felt boredom. There was always something to do, always new resources to farm, always a new enemy to defeat, and always a struggle to figure out how to defeat a V Blood with a higher level than me. Combining all of the elements of V Rising, there is just too much to do and too little time. Luckily, there’s a lot of customization for players that don’t enjoy some parts of the game, which can allow them to play it however they want.
You can make crafting faster, make fighting easier, make base building seamless, similar to what you might find in Minecraft’s Creative Mode, and just change the setting however you want to play V Rising however you want. So, if you don’t like the combat, you can change it. If you don’t like the survival elements of the game, again, you can change them. There’s total freedom when it comes to V Rising and nothing is stopping you from making the game fit your needs.
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That’s a great game, I’m also glad that someone got that 100%. Congrats!
I want to play this game so bad
100% completion. Wow Amazing. A must to have 😀