What’s most amazing to me is I barely removed more than half of the unedited video’s runtime.
Vampire Survivors is a tiny game that is way more fun than I would have expected. I knew before I bought it that I enjoyed Roguelites: that’s why I bought it. But the comboing setup is a lot more intricate than expected, and with how cheap the game & DLC are, I have a hard time not justifying buying the DLC. I buy all the (in-game) DLC for any game I stream anyway, because I want to showcase everything the game has, but it’s a seriously affordable price, especially when the DLC description says something like “20 new characters and 30 new weapons” with a price of $2.50. If only all games could be like that.
As for the story of the game, there really isn’t much. The goal is to survive 30 minutes (or however long it is on bonus stages), then, if possible, kill the Reaper. If you do so, you’re rewarded with the White Hand that we saw in Neo Galuga, where I killed that stage’s equivalent to the Reaper. There are further goals hidden behind achievements, and I won’t spoil them here, but in short there are only eight stages you actually have to play. Everything else is completely optional. I played four of those stages in the course of this stream, though in the fourth, I failed to get the necessary achievement to unlock the fifth. (I know what it is, but didn’t prioritize doing it. I wanted to see the DLC stages, too.)
For this particular stream, as there’s not really much in the way of story and I knew my video buffer was already significant, I decided to simply keep it all as one video and cut out the time where I wasn’t talking or was just leveling up my stuff. The gameplay is more or less “walk in circles and try not to die,” so you’re not missing much. It’s just fun to try to combo your items and find everything in a given stage. I might not do the best representation of the game in this video, but I was having a blast streaming. Seriously, the game is cheap (and available everywhere): if you’re at all inclined, go ahead and try it out for yourself.