V Rising Review
I had a really hard time knowing if I’d like V Rising from the very beginning. It’s been in early access forever and every time I looked at it the game would be doubling or tripling down on its castle building mechanics. “New carpets,” it would say. “Torches for your pillars,” it would boast. “Support us with this DLC pack that’s nothing but colors of stone for your walls,” the new update would declare. As someone without a creative bone in their body the idea of a game that leaned so heavily on making a castle (or even worse: a castle you can’t even do anything in) seemed like something that would never really gel with me. So I kept it on my wish list for all this time, checking in every so often and not seeing anything to convince me it would be a game that I would end…