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In the dark fantasy world of The Blood of Dawnwalker, even the vampires are morally grey: 'They are complex, and…

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(Image credit: Rebel Wolves) Developer Rebel Wolves boasts more than a few veterans of The Witcher 3 on its team, and there's certainly no hiding that lineage in the studio's debut title The Blood of Dawnwalker . Like the Witcher series, it's set in a dark fantasy world grounded in ideas from real history. And it's just as shot through with grey morality—choices between two imperfect situations, and characters who are neither wholly right or wrong. It should certainly be a tip-off that the game's hero Coen is literally split between light and darkness himself, striving for justice but at the same time being drawn to drink the blood of those around him. (Image credit: Rebel Wolves) But heading into a hands-off demo for the game this month, I was at least working on the assumption that the game had some unequivocal villains in its grotesque vampire ruling family. They've taken over the land, demanding a blood tithe from the people and ruling with an iron fist.…

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