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Vampire Therapist asks: can a game really teach the fundamentals of therapy?
Can a video game really teach the fundamentals of therapy? Vampire Therapist puts you in the hotseat.
Excuse the American slang, but I've picked it up from the character in the game you will play as: Sam Walls, a cowboy from the Wild West who left a life of bloody gunslinging behind him to sort out his head and come to terms with the bad things he'd done. That the game doesn't take itself too seriously - it cites famous Vampire properties like What We Do in the Shadows as inspiration - helps alleviate any stuffiness enormously. It helps that Sam is likeable too - he reminds me a lot of Ted Lasso, both in his accent and his relentless enthusiasm, and in his constant willingness to philosophically pick people up, while Andromachos is patient and calm.
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