You play as a vampire in denial, trying to escape her captor, and return to France. This game takes place in two main areas. There's the castle, which you start on, and a nearby village. Unfortunately the game ends rather abruptly, and a sequel was at least once in the makings, but I am not sure how that is going.

The game is a standard point and click adventure game. The game uses static 2D images as backgrounds, but you navigate them in 3D. The puzzles are a bit bizarre, as is custom for the genre, but they are never impossibly illogical. The game also contains a fair bit of humour, and references to classic point and click games.

All in all, it is an enjoyable game, and I do not regret playing it. :)

A Vampyre Story is quite a nice story about the French opera singer Mona de Lafitte and her bat companion Froderick and their quest to back to Paris.

The graphics can be considered old when compared to the graphics of most point-and-click nowadays but with the graphics the way they, the can possibly play on older computers that can't keep up with today's graphics.

The voice acting is quite nice and has quite the range of accents. Some of the voices may take a while to get used to because some are more annoying than others.

The game can be considered short or long depending on your own perspective and the ending does imply that there will be a sequel but when this will be so is a matter of time.

A Vampyre Story isn't trying to reinvent the wheel: it proudly is an old school point & click adventure game of more humorous nature, revolving around a diva vampire opera singer Mona and her bat friend Froderick. Their goal is to get out from the Shrowdys castle and to Paris.

The plot is okay in the adventure standard. It provides good enough of reason for various puzzles and is interesting enough to make you play the game through. I mostly liked the humor of the game, but it really isn't laugh out funny. Voice acting is above average, though it did take me some time to get used to Mona's voice, as she does sound a bit annoying. Music does its job well to create atmosphere.

Background art works very well. The art style is created by Bill Tiller, who also was the artist in Lucasarts Curse of the Monkey Island. Both games share the exaggerated cartoonish style in both characters and background art. The only real issue I had with the art is, that the low poly 3D characters don't sit quite well among the finely detailed 2D art.

The only real innovation, if you can call it that, to the game play is memory based inventory, which basically means, that instead of dragging around huge objects Mona remembers where they are and recollects them later when needed. But in the end it really doesn't effect the game play in any way. You just use the objects like you'd use them in any other game and stuff still happens. You just need to watch a small animation of Mona and/or Froderick fetching the object before use.

All in all, you could do a lot worse when selecting an adventure game. A Vampyre Story is good snack and I hear there's a sequel coming, which is good as the game does end in a cliff hanger.

The puzzles vary in complexity. Some of them are easy such as using a boomerang to knock off the string of garlic hanging by someone’s doorway. I had to consult a walkthrough to help me out through some of the other puzzles, especially the ones involving making the various potions needed. The quests are usually pretty entertaining and you’ll sometimes find an easier solution to a problem after you’ve done all the hard work already.

This game is very funny but the humor is juvenile and often has sexual references and mild swearing. There are tributes and references to many popular movies and TV shows. For example when you’re looking through some rectangular objects in a library (Mona doesn’t know how to read or know what books are), one of the funnier titles was How to Survive in the Wilderness on 2 Pints of Blood. You’ll also encounter some rats that have mobster ties and they mention that they haven’t seen one of their cousins since he found a cookbook. Another reference I recognized was that Ozzy the water fountain talks just like Ozzie Osbourne.

The voice acting is superb in this game. The character voices and accents are great. Mona has a French accent and one of the people you meet in town is from Jersey and has a blunt personality and a fitting accent. The background music completes the game and the sound effects are good too.

When it comes to stability, I encountered a couple glitches. If you’re running Windows Vista, you’ll have to run the game as an administrator or else it will crash to the desktop right away. Lastly, one of the characters is standing up when they shouldn’t be after you drain their blood a bit. After you collect his badge from his unconscious body, he’s back on the ground again where he belongs. To get the actual badge itself you have to click on the ground where it should have been. There is a patch for the game, but this issue is unresolved.

This was a very enjoyable game to play. I didn’t like the abrupt ending, clearly they are planning a sequel for this game. I look forward to checking that out.

Nice little adventure game.

It was full of bugs before updates, but now gameplay is some what smooth.

Story is good, but it ends before end so if you want know whole story you must buy second part of game too, which will be released in somewhere in future and there may be part three also.

Game is funny as it is and it gives 5-10 hours good entertaiment, when you play it through.

Very enjoyable.

I bought this game a few days back. Im enjoying it very much.

The story in the game is funny, wich is very good because the game is filled with good humor. You and your bat friend Froderick have enough dialogue and interaction, wich is often hilarious.

The puzzles in the game are challenging at times, for me as a casual adventure I might have to drop a peek at an faq. But usually the awnser is obvious.

If you like old lucas arts styled adventure games you cant go wrong with this one 4/5 stars

Good start.

This is a good game that has its flaws. If you are a fan of the old LucasArts games then this is a must-play game. The game is very short game that keeps the player hanging for the 2nd game coming 2010.

From Omega, "Autumn Moon Entertainment, the developers of A Vampyre Story, recently announcement the impending release of a second installation to their novel ongoing project. If the follow-up is as artfully devised and as sturdily written and voiced as the first, I will gladly buy the next game. With the effortless point-and-click controls, clever layout and challenging puzzles, I find it difficult not to be drawn to the emerging series. I highly recommend A Vampyre Story to any and all adventure fans. Overlook a few minor flaws, and you’ll have a barrel of joy waiting at your fingertips."

Good return to old fashion adventure games.