// KOTAKU — GAMING
Anne Rice’s Vampires Watch Me Play The First 7 Hours Of The Blood Of Dawnwalker
Daniel Molloy, the Vampire Armand, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, and their vampire daughter Claudia de Lioncourt de Pointe du Lac crowd around my couch as The Blood of Dawnwalker loads for the first time. They are captivated by some parts of the game and deeply annoyed by others.
Daniel: So you’re a journalist too. Video games, huh? I played Pac-Man once in the 80s, couldn’t get into it. Looks like games have come a long way since Pac-Man.
Armand: Why is this leader vampire so ugly? Vampires are meant to be beautiful so the affront to God is greater.
Louis, horrified: So he’s just giving the little girl the Dark Gift?
Lestat, interrupting: Ugh, so glad I was turned after the Black Plague. All the upheaval, the drama. [His tone indicates he is actually very upset he missed the upheaval and the drama.]
Daniel: Wait, why are you chopping wood and finding lost pigs? Is this the whole game Peasant Simulator 3000? Maybe games haven’t come a long way since Pac-Man.
Claudia: Yeah, wake me up when there’s vampires again.
Lestat: Even by vampire standards you are still in nursery—
[Armand and Louis physically restrain Claudia before she can rip out Lestat’s eyeballs. Time, as it also does in the game, passes from day to night and the Blood Mass begins.]
Lestat: Oh, I see we’re doing the old “let’s corrupt religion to justify our heinous actions” bit again. Boring.