r/codevein

Please.... For the love of god. Tell me You have to buy them from the shop or something. And that you don't ONLY get them in there? Cause if this crap. Blood code is all you get to carry over imma be. Real mad. Cause this is pretty much the build i had but with asthma.

Hey everyone, hope you're doing well!

I wanted to open up a discussion about something that’s been on my mind while playing Code Vein II. To be completely honest, I REALLY like the game and have very few complaints about the gameplay itself. The combat feels super refined, and running around with partners like Lou, Josée, and Noah is just awesome.But there’s one thing that really stood out to me: the art direction. Did anyone else get a massive sense of loneliness and abandonment from this open world?In the first Code Vein, we had that beautiful, purely neo-gothic Victorian aesthetic, filled with colossal cathedrals and ruins that looked like melancholic paintings.

Since the game was linear, those tight corridors made perfect sense for enemy placements and kept the tension high. In CV2, I feel like they leaned way too hard into an industrial vibe—tons of factories, refineries, and metallic structures. Everything became very gray and rusty. Plus, because the world is open and enemies are scattered all over the place, the map just feels empty and lifeless at times. Man, I really miss that classic gothic foundation!That being said, I am incredibly hyped about the rumors regarding the Mask of Idris DLC (which looks like it’s dropping between July and September!).Based on what dataminers found and current lore theories, Lou MagMell is going to use her powers to take us 200 years back in time—right into the golden age of Revenants and the Valentin bloodline. This means the architecture should completely change. It makes perfect sense! In the past, way before everything turned into a modern industrial wasteland, we will likely explore stone palaces, stained-glass halls, statues, and that heavy mist under crimson skies.To me, it looks like Shift is using this time travel plot as the perfect excuse to bring back the linear dungeon design and the gothic visuals that made the franchise famous in the first place, fixing that "empty" feeling of the base game.

What do you guys think? Do you prefer the urban industrial take of CV2, or are you praying the DLC brings the classic gothic style back with a vengeance through this time travel arc? Let's discuss!

now on new game +. I did the bad ending first. felt really bad and it was really depressing. Going for Neutral ending now. Incidentally it's also my birthday, and I spent it playing this.

Alice and Lola. I'm obsessed with creating characters in the game. I really hope Mask of Idris has more outfits and accessories for character creation.

This is My first time actually Sharing one of my characters on here, i hope you like it. Her name is chara.

Well I Got a Bit Inspired so I decided to Make an Invading Executioner Meme

Yes, she was originally based off of io.

They are in order. The last two are her currently.

So I was torn between a bunch of screencaps with Holly for the partner meme, and at the time was originally going to go with image 1 here, but it looked to me like it was Dhysis checking her out and I didn't feel completely in character for her (I remember when I first posted her I think some people thought she was meant to be an arrogant character, which is funny because the way I made her personality was outside of anything mission related she is incredibly shy [see image 2] I guess one way to describe her would be Komi: looks like serious business, though nothing but panic and anxiety under the hood unless there is a monster to slay as a distraction : P)

Also it was only a matter of time before I made use of the kabedon pose xD;

Enough time has passed and I wanted to give my honest opinion on Code Vein 2.

Overall Experience: For my overall experience with game I really enjoyed it in the beginning but the longer they more it felt like I was forcing myself to play game. It felt like I was obligated to play because I played the first game and with it being disconnected to the first game didn’t help either. Can you really call a game a sequel if not connected to the previous game? To a degree you could almost call it false marketing to a degree.

Gameplay/combat: To me the Gameplay was fun but also lackluster. It definitely was an improvement of the first game but to me sometimes the gameplay felt very boring and slow on the occasion. Especially the motorcycle it wasn’t fun to drive due to how slow it was. Overall the gameplay felt like a downgrade version of Elden Ring. I’m not saying it’s bad that how it felt to me. It was still fun wish it could’ve been better.

Lore: I really don’t really much to say here. The Revenants in Code Vein 2 are just your typical vampire who conquered the Sun and most of human civilization don’t like them. It doesn’t feel like it any originality to them. Unlike the first game, we know that Revenants are man made due to experiments with the Bore parasite and because of it they’re undead immortals soldiers that can keep coming back unless there heart is destroyed. I really appreciate the dark scientific horror aspect from the first game and that it takes place in the God Eater world. It gives the first game a lot more to it and a lot more to explore. While Code Vein 2 doesn’t have any of that. Another thing I want to talk about is resurgence. You telling me it caused by an overpopulation of Revenants? Like seriously? Please tell me I’m missing more context to this because when you think about will there ever be a true solution? As time goes on more revenant will be born/made making it get worse. It never will be a true solution.

Story: This might be my longest category. So I was excited in the beginning, seeing that going back in time see that our actions do affect/change the future. The longer I played it felt more like a big waste of time. I’m talking about when you go back in time second after slaying the heroes. After Slaying Lyle and seeing we could go back into time help prevent the tragedy that happened to him that happened to him and his group. Only to see that it still lead to him getting sealed up and have to be killed a second time. I genuinely asked myself what was the purpose of going back a second time. Yes everyone around him still alive but he still ends up being sealed and wishing for death. So we can go back in time and change the past but things stay the same but even though the game showed going to the past and changes the future. With greatest of example with Noah being unstone and the bridge forming. You can apply this to the other heroes as well. I want to talk about the endings which felt very forced to me. I’ll be talking about the second ending, where we beat Valentine. So in the original timeline past Lou failed to seal the resurgence but future Lou comes back and successfully does with our character sacrificing themselves. Shouldn’t our character/everything we done cease to exist? Because it’s a whole time paradox. Because if the seal successful that that mean we shouldn’t be brought back to life to kill the heroes but if you’re not Lou won’t be able to goes back in time. Like I said no matter what we do the resurgence still goes off eventually leading to being resurrected. Like I said the good ending force or this example of the storytelling team not knowing what aspect of time traveling to use and that it’ll be a true solution.

My expectations: When Code Vein 2 got announced I was really hoping it’ll be a crossover with God Eater. Just imagine it seeing Revenants and God Eater take on Aragami together. The many unknown possibilities of what happens if a Revenant drained an Aragami and gain Oracle Cells from it, seeing a potential hybrid race between God Eater and Revenant, seeing how the world would react to revenants. What happens if Aragami devours a revenant. They’re so many opportunities In my opinion if the original code vein got a true sequel it’ll be a lot funnier than code vein 2.

Closing: overall all I’m not saying Code vein 2 is bad game, it’s a good game. Overall I think it’s just in a bad spot. As a fan I didn’t ask or want this ask a next game. You can argue I’m being bias towards the first game or blame me for not disassociating it from the first game but can really blame a long time fan? It’s called Code Vein 2 returning/long time fan it’ll be hard to separate the two and not compare. If anything the game felt more towards new fans/players then old players/fan. Over I’ll give it a 6/10 as it own game it’s good. As returning fan you’re really not going to enjoy it. Again that’s my opinion everyone have there opinion and thoughts and these are mine.

This run didn't take that long surprisingly enough, maybe six hours or so. It felt awesome fighting him in a pure swordplay scenario lol

I recently am close to beating the first game already. Was wondering if the second game is any better. I heard that the multi-player was not there, but im a solo player. Was hoping if it was any good before I buy it. Thank you!!