Code vein side quests5/5/2023 When it comes to the greater narrative of this game it actually reminded me a lot of the Nier series. If you’re only watching the cutscenes and spending time with the main cast then I feel you really miss out on the best narrative parts of the game. Particularly its main cast is uninspired and fit very neatly into roles you’re likely quite familiar with. Unfortunately I cannot say that it is not entirely successful with that. While Coco’s story is the most extreme of them (that doesn’t involve common game tropes like being a war orphan turned mercenary) it shows an attempt to take characters that are typically genre caricatures and make them people. This sort of real world tragedy in a game that is really about anime vampires who can shoot fire from their hands really helps to ground it and reinforce the theme of tragedy. When she tells you about what she went through it’s told with the reservation of someone who has had the time to process the horror. Mostly because the distance from the event. In this case, I feel that’s for the better. It is important to note that this played out in the form of her expositing to the player rather than how other characters’ memories depicted. Months later she receives a letter saying that her had died. “The government” discovered this and decided to take her son away. It is implied that before the Great Collapse she was living in poverty and had probably turned to some form of sex work to support her ailing son. Take the character of Coco (major spoilers ahead for a side character). However, they can also be considerably more dire. Some memories are as ordinary and uneventful as siblings on a hike and a person visiting a sick friend in the hospital. Something I really appreciate its willingness to allow its characters to have mundane scenes and back stories. These scenes really showcase the game’s themes of tragedy, sacrifice, and hope.Īn example of a memory you come across about 25% though the game: It is how you find out who the characters were before you met them and about significant characters you never meet in person. This is largely how the backstory is told. You will find crystalized memories from various characters around the world. Memory restoration is a big element to the game though. Which you can then reattain by going back to the place you died. Dying will only cause you to drop your current amount of haze (aka souls). This is used to explain why you are sent back to your last used mistle (the game's bonfire equivalent.) The memory loss stuff never impacts your character mechanically. However, your memories fade each time you come back. As a revenant you only need to subsist off of human blood and as long as your heart isn't destroyed you will revive when fatally injured. A creature made from dead human and something called a BOR parasite. However it does spoil something relating to a side character and broad thoughts about the ending.) There are genre conventions of both Souls-like (Blight Town and Anor Londo equivalents) and anime (like flashy choreographed fight scenes, melodramatic confessions of love, and a character who looks like she's 16, but is actually much older.) I would not say that it particularly subverts those tropes (especially the anime ones), but, both mechanically and narratively, it still has more going on with it and should not be passed up. At a glance that's pretty much what it is. She sleeps hidden away in the Cathedral of the Sacred Blood, guarded by the Successor of the Ribcage.It's very easy to reduce Code Vein to Dark Souls but with more anime tropes. Her power creates the blood beads that Revenants use to keep frenzy at bay in place of human blood, thus she is the source of all blood springs. Karen also worked more closely with Aurora.Īt an unknown point, Karen became the Successor of the Heart. As well, Louis hadn't woken up as a Revenant yet. When Cruz frenzied, Karen died alongside Louis.ĭuring Operation Queenslayer, she was a nurse for injured Revenants, keeping tabs on the amount of memory they were losing upon each death. While Louis was attending college, Karen was a nurse who worked closely with Cruz Silva. She was good friends with a woman named Aurora Valentino, but how they met is unclear. Much of Karen and Louis' life prior to the Great Collapse is unknown. She is Louis Amamiya's sister and Successor of the Heart. Karen is a former scientist before the Great Collapse who later becomes a nurse for the injured Revenants.
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