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Practicing Sustainable Agriculture in Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2

     It is a well known truism in games media that the more colons there are in a game's title the more likely it is to be ass. Usually this kind of thing smacks of Suit Involvement and Brand Preservation, where the cool but harder to trademark Gods and Monsters  becomes the much more specific  Immortals: Fenyx Rising , which tells you next to nothing about the actual game itself. (Side note, if you liked Breath of the Wild try Immortals, it's actually pretty good. Just...only do the A New God DLC.) World of Darkness games are hit double with this, because the properties themselves have colons.     I don't have much unique to say about Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2. I agree with the general consensus that the main quest and characters are fun, the side missions can go fuck themselves, and that your headmate, a Malkavian detective named Fabian, is the breakout star. I'm one of the many that would love a game that's just Fabian solving mysteries ...

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