YMMV / Vampire: The Masquerade — Swansong

• Captain Obvious Reveal: The party was attacked by the Second Inquisition. The game keeps it hidden for much of the game's first act that there even is an attack, let alone who is responsible but the rise of the SI has been the focus of almost every single VTM game since Fifth Edition.
• Colbert Bump: The game got a significant boost from Vampire Reviews doing a 17 part playthrough.
• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: There's a great deal of interesting lore and world-building in the game but the graphics are dated, the gameplay questionable, and numerous game-breaking bugs that were never fixed.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Hilda MacAndrews has many fans for being a Big Beautiful Woman, which is rare among vampires.
• Game-Breaking Bug: The game suffers from the fact that it automatically saves frequently and this includes bugs that frequently makes it unwinnable, such as when a player character can't leave a room or gets stuck in a door. The only option is to restart the level, which can be an hour since the start of.
• Genius Bonus: There's a book in Chiara Favarone's private lab that Galeb glances at and calls "wholesome". If you know anything about the Pacific Theater in World War II, Favarone's been reading about medical data procured during the rape of Nanjing, which cannot possibly have anything to do with her current topic of study.
• Porting Disaster: The game absolutely works best on PC and has serious issues on consoles.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Some of the character designs are particularly awful like Victoria Ash's, whose facial animations just do not work as well as other character's.
• The Un-Twist: Halsey isn't a hallucination after exceptional hints are dropped that she's a figment of Leysha's imagination like the fact that she's so childish and sweet for a Kindred as well as deeply adoring to her mother. It's The Un-Twist because the narrative mostly accepts as fact that she's a real vampire and it lists her as such in the Codex.