I applaud the ambition in The Blood of Dawnwalker, but this open-world RPG features too much busywork and not a strong enough vampire fantasy to truly excel
THE SO WHAT
Another open-world RPG dinged for repetitive busywork is a reminder that content volume without tight systems design just bloats production budgets. Studios experimenting with AI content should focus it on deepening core loops and narrative reactivity, not generating more fetch quests.
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