Almost 5 years ago a completely unexpected action RPG came out. The genre was back on the rise after the success of Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2, but people wanted to see it evolve even more. Add more little weird touches, more curious takes on the same basic mechanics and gameplay loop. Darksiders 2, an action adventure at core, had lots of action RPG elements to it and Borderlands were a huge success at mixing FPS and action RPG. So there was The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, from rather unknown NeocoreGames, who had previously released rather mediocre series King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame. And the game was surprisingly fun. I mean, it wasn’t stellar, it didn’t revolutionize the genre or anything, but there were small touches that made the game work a bit closer to how a story driven action RPG would, like The Witcher, yet it remained at its core a pure monster killing loot gathering aRPG in all its simplicity.
But it was meant to be the first of 3 games. And the games that followed… well… Let’s just say, I’m not exactly sure the Final Cut of the series, that mixes all 3 games into one, is the cut I would’ve went with.
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