#Sam walls vampire therapist

[pheidippidestriesthings]

Started playing Vampire Therapist. The characters are very fun. I love digging into the deep psychology of people/characters, so a game about unpacking deeply ingrained psychology is right up my alley

Paper and a tiny sticky note- I find sticky notes feel more temporary and disposable than a sketchbook, and it helps me get around the desire to only do things that will look finished and good. So by embracing an even more temporary medium, I am more willing to do stuff and as such practice more and as such make things I like.

Fr tho, the game is only $15. There are times when I become aware that $15 is a fair price. But overall it is a delight, and I am the target audience.

[toxictoad]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it but Sam Walls Vampire Therapist is an honestly amazing comment on rehabilitation and just everything that's wrong about how USamericans think about justice and just hgjfkshjkladshlkhsl

Like he was abused, he was a troubled child, and he was lured into crime at a young age because of his poor circumstances. That's already pretty indicative of crime in the US despite the fact that he was born two hundred years ago.

He grew up into a killer, lost his brother, became a vampire (Timeline is slightly unclear to me but that may just be my Swiss cheese brain) and his wife left with his daughter because of who he had become. His only companion left was his horse AND THEN HIS HORSE IS KILLED BY HIS FELLOW GANGMEMBERS.

He loses EVERYTHING because of a desperate turn to crime when he had barely anything. He's a murderous bastard and yet- AND YET he has enough humanity left to leave his old gang and go out on his own. He wants to change!

And he's taken in by these transcendentalists who accept him! They don't care that he's a gang member or a vampire! They help him work on himself instead of punishing him!

And the thing is that he doesn't change right away. They give him the tools to help himself but he still spends the next ninety years wandering the woods and reflecting, and even then he still needs to do therapy with Andy!

He changes, and it takes so, so much work, but look at him! Sam is our protagonist. He's lovable and humble and sweet and he tries to do his best by everyone!

He's genuinely reformed. He's a good person even if he didn't used to be. I love him so much.

[kirbles]

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #9

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

[mischivousvoid]

I ran out of time and motivation so have a coloured sketch only, but

Behold, Fiddleford H. McGucket cosplaying Sam Walls from Vampire Therapist. I have a more original design for cowboy-vampire Fiddleford cooking, but my inspiration for it was Sam anyway so I wanted to draw this first for Halloween.

I should just draw Sam sometimes ahaha I love vampire therapist it's practically my favourite game

Also,YES, he's meant to be wearing cowboy boot crocs, if I had more energy it'd be more clear. crocs are like the only shoe I can imagine Fiddleford wearing after he recovered from insanity, and this is technically him from my AU where some of the characters have their physical bodies get younger by few decades for spoiler-to-possible-fic-reasons because I want to explore what they would do having to reflect on their life now that they have a semblance of a second chance to re-live it.

[bareee]

Mr.Hyde I want the Dr. back

I’ve been able to hop back into Vampire Therapist and got to this point. No sir. No thank ya and goodbye. Yes game, I am American, and I am uncomfortable XD I want the Dr. side back pleasssse

But good to know Im not only a cowboy vampire therapist, BUT I’mma cowboy vampire therapist WITH A GUN. Bring in on ya bastards! HA Gotta bite and a bullet to go with it!

[blaze-s39]

Getting called out by the vampire game

[hepbaestus]

[kismetrose]

Vampire Therapist FTW

I don't tend to buy games/visual novels when they're first released and this week was an expensive one for me, but I grabbed this little gem as a consolation prize. I've missed visual novels and I was instantly interested in its premise. I mean, "Vampire Therapist" says so much so quickly!

Now, I haven't finished it yet, but I have had a delightful time with it thus far. The main character, Sam Walls the vampire cowboy, is an adorable cinnamon roll who wants to help other vampires thrive. His new vampire mentor, Andromachos, is as patient and civilized as you could hope an ancient vampire could be. Each of the patients is unique, and some of them are historic figures.

The view on vampires, their psychology, and their issues is interesting. One thing I appreciate is that the game goes out of its way to show how philosophies, religious beliefs, and other modes of thought influence their worldviews, even many years after those modes of thoughts dwindled in popularity. It reinforces how they are products of older times.

I've become partial to the term "bloodfather/mother/parent" for those who turn others into vampires; I automatically liked it better than V:tM's "sire."

You learn various cognitive distortions and identify them in the statements your patients make; this is the heart of the game experience. I've found myself hearing Sam in my head, identifying them IRL since I started playing, which has added an extra layer of amusement.

I haven't done multiple playthroughs yet so I haven't seen if your choices make much of a difference. There have been some moments when it's clear that it doesn't matter what you choose - you'll either have to go through all the options or you'll go through until you choose the right one. Either way, there doesn't seem to be much difference in how others respond. After a certain point in the patient-cowboy therapist exchange, you don't get many choices; Sam just proceeds to wrap up with his observations and advice.

This has been a little disappointing, since it may make replaying it less satisfying, but it's also reduced the need to save-scum for a persistent little perfectionist like me.

The art is beautiful and Western-style, which I prefer. The entire thing is voiced by good voice actors in a variety of accents which I have had no trouble understanding; having so much voiced is a special treat!

The music is good, but one thing that might bother some of folks is that the music from the club runs rather continuously beneath most conversations. If you find it distracting, you may have to turn it off.

I hope to say more later, but I thought I should put in a good word now. $15 ain't a lot but can be a lot to an indie game company, and buzz can be important for something newly released. If this sounds like it's your bag, there's no harm in grabbing it. You might even learn some things that'll be of use to you.

And yes, Matt Mercer does voice a couple of characters. That wasn't a main draw for me, but I know it is for some folks.

[littlebatgames]

The voices of Vampire Therapist

Hi Tumblr! I'm Cyrus Nemati, creative director at Little Bat Games, where we're making Vampire Therapist. You might know me as a voice actor. I voiced Theseus, Dionysus, and Ares in Hades, so as you might imagine, voices are my thing.

When I started designing Vampire Therapist, I wanted to create characters not only had deep narrative depth, but that would be challenging and rewarding to voice. I voice protagonist Sam Walls and his mentor, Andromachos. Writing a game about therapy is really tricky, so being able to jump in revoice lines was a huge benefit for the game!

I also voice two of the therapy clients in the game, Dr. Drayne and Edmund Kean. Dr. Drayne is the kind of challenge any actor delights in, having three very distinct characterizations that have to seem natural, whereas Edmund Kean is the Shakespearean actor of his time.

As much as I'd like to save money, I couldn't voice all characters in the game, but I'm very picky about voices and needed a cast of the absolute best I could find. So I got them.

If you've played Hades 2, you've heard Sarah Grayson or Selene. Or maybe you know her from Gone Home or Tacoma? But I needed her ability to alternate between the very light and the very dark for murderous vampire content creator Meddy.

To play Isabella d'Este, a real historical figure and esteemed patron of the arts during the Renaissance, I needed someone with a sense of the theatrical and some excellent comic timing. For that, I turned to a very old friend, Kylie Clark, who comes much more from the theatre tradition that video games... which she doesn't play at all. Until Vampire Therapist!

For our fabulous goth bartender, Crimson, I needed the epitome of cool, sexy, and tantalizingly mysterious. You might know Francesca Meaux as Eurydice from Hades, but she went to some unexpected places to play Crimson!

I did say I wanted the best of the best, right? Vampire Therapist is a super low-budget indie, but if I'm going to fill a club with quirky, sexy goths, I need range, and for that, I got Matthew Mercer. Yeah, that Matthew Mercer. The Critical Role one. The one from Baldur's Gate 3. The one from all your favorite video games. How could I do less? He's playing Reinhard the sexy goth and Ciaran the goth priest in Vampire Therapist.

You can see the work we've put into every aspect of Vampire Therapist. I think you're going to find that it's unlike any game you've ever played.

It'll be out on July 18th, and you can wishlist it on Steam now!

And on GOG!

[miss-madness67]

Massages and More (Dean)

Dean really likes your massage.

“Would you please quit moving?” you berate Dean, who instantly stops squirming under you. Your hands travel through his back in a calming manner. His muscles react to your touch.

“Sorry,” Dean murmurs, “I’m just not used to this.”

You had convinced Dean to let you give him a back massage. He had come to the bunker tired after a long hunt. He claimed that his back was sore, and you jokingly commented on his age. You didn’t mean to make him feel bad, but as an apology, you offered to relieve his pain a little.

That’s the reason why you’re on top of Dean Winchester -in a nonsexual way- caressing all of his back muscles. He is resting face down, shirtless, and you are straddling his hips. Some sexual innuendos pop into your mind, but you decide to remain quiet. The point of this is not sex. You want Dean to relax and make his poor back feel better. Of course, you cannot deny the enjoyment from touching that perfect body of his.

Dean and you have always had a weird thing going on. You are friends who have sex and have feelings for each other but don’t acknowledge them head-on. It’s been months since it started; you dance around expecting the other to confess their love. Even though you know you both feel the same way, neither says anything. It’s exhausting, really. Several times you’ve considered maybe, just maybe, being the first one to say it. And then you would think, why you? Why not him? Yeah, you both were stubborn, alright.

With the help of your index and thumb finger, you press into his lower back upwards, trying to release some tension in there. Dean sighs in contentment. You do it again on the other side. It’s a good thing that you made him take a shower first. His skin is still wet from it, and it’s easier to slide your fingers up his back into the juncture between his shoulder blades. You stop briefly to admire the strength of his upper body. His broad chest always makes you swoon a little bit… or a lot. Even if he’s not a big fan of workouts like Sam and eats a lot of junk food, the hunt keeps him in shape. His muscular arms are strong enough to tackle down a vampire, or to lift you up while he fucks you against the wall.

When he moves slightly, you go back to work. You don’t want him to find out that you’re probably enjoying this more than he is. With both of your hands, you press him down into the mattress in several key spots. He doesn’t complain, so you do it again. Dean has gone so quiet that you think he might’ve fallen asleep. You’re not a massage therapist at all, you’re just doing what feels right. You lower your hands to the hem of his sweatpants and work there for a few moments. Then you slide them up and to the left, and do the same to the other side. You’re getting the hang of it. You’re even focusing on the movements instead of Dean’s gorgeous back.

A/N: If you wish to continue for the adult part, click here.

[chaifootsteps]

Recently I've started to play the game "Vampire Therapist" which I find very enjoyable.

You play as Sam Walls, a cowboy vampire turned therapist helping other vampires with their mental health by guiding them through centuries of emotional baggage. The game is basically a Visual Novel where the gameplay consists of identifying which types of mental distortions such as "overgeneralization" and "personalization" the patient is working under for certain excerpts of the conversation.

While the game isn't about redemption per se, I think it does a better job exploring the concept of characters facing their pasts: their trauma and mistakes and becoming better people than Hazbin Hotel. Plus, its a lot more well-researched: Like Hazbin Hotel the cast come from various time-periods, from renaissance Italy, 18th century England and ancient Ireland, so there are a lot of historical and mythological references, and the way they speak and think reflects their era. The patient Edmund Keane who was a Shakespearian actor and thus his speech is very eloquent and dramatic, peppered with citations of Shakespeare and classical mythology. This is something I think is really neat.

I see a sad cowboy, I want to play the game with the sad cowboy. Thanks for the rec!

[mischivousvoid]

If the post where you complain that you should draw Sam Walls properly sometime gets noticed by Little Bat Games, you goddamn draw Sam Walls properly. So, here's my depicton of everyone's favourite Vampire Comboy♡ I don't know why he's in a field, but I just wanted to draw him happy goofing off with someone, stumbling back and catching his hat to keep it on his head. People and characters get so much brighter when you imagine you're in love with them, and perhaps just a little bit of it is the real deal for me with Sam. I adore this game with my whole heart, and fun fact, it released on my birthday this year and it was the best birthday gift the universe could have given me.

I also cannot get a silly Vampire Therapist and Gravity Falls crossover idea out of my head now, but I'm still working on it and it deserves another post anyway.

[tonberrykins]

Y'all. Go play Vampire Therapist. Please, I am begging. It is silly, a little crude, it's fun and 100% not actual therapy.

Like. It's a visual novel and good gravy is it endearing. I can't describe why, but it is. And it's mainly because of the protagonist that the player controls. Sam Walls is Jedediah (of Night at the Museum fame) meets Arthur Morgan (RDR2) and his friends and clients are all their own unique individuals. It's just...really fun.

Please go support it and have some fun doing it.

[janzoo]

Quick and Simple Vampire Therapist Demo Review

Hi folks! I played the demo for Vampire Therapist the other day. Here's the basics and my thoughts/a few screencaps - spoilers within!

The first thing the game shows you is a message saying that while the developers worked with therapists, the game is not a replacement for actual therapy.

TL;DR premise: you are a vampire cowboy (Sam Walls) who wants to help other vampires with their centuries of baggage and trauma via Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which he partially figured on his own, and learns the rest from an established vampire therapist (Andromachos).

The demo plays through the first appointments with your first two clients.

It's a visual novel which seems to have some simple mini-games here and there, mainly for (consensual) neck biting. You listen to the client speak, and when prompted, you guess at which cognitive distortions they're falling into (like "Should Statements" or "Disqualifying Positives"). Here's a video from the game studio re: cognitive distortions. You cannot get a wrong answer; if you guess incorrectly, Andromachos telepathically hints you towards the correct answer and you get to try again.

There is no gruesome content/visuals so far. There's a blood splatter visual/sound effect when you get a correct answer, but it's very brief. When you drink blood, you get the neck biting mini-game where you line up a little moving set of fangs over blood vessels in the neck; then it cuts to the humans you drank from saying how great that was but you don't see them, or any blood.

It's quite suggestive. Andromachos's speaks openly and casually of his sex life, there's references to pegging, the goths get real horny about being bitten...Yeah this is not for kids. Adjust your expectations accordingly.

From what I know of CBT (mainly as someone receiving it), the gameplay seems to use very simplified versions of the concepts. Again, not a replacement for actual therapy - but also not a bad place to start, either. I already feel myself thinking of the game system in combination with what my therapist and I have talked about. Sam is becoming my inner good vibes voice - "Hey now, you're disqualifyin' the positives. You did real well, embrace it. :)"

IMO Sam is a very sincere and relatable character in that he's made some big mistakes but he's just trying to do better and help others. That's true of all of us, but we keep thinking that our mistakes are somehow especially terrible, or that any good we do now will always be overshadowed by the bad we did. And so on and so forth. Also, he's a rootin'-tootin' American cowboy now operating out of a German goth nightclub and his struggles with languages other than English is portrayed amusingly lmao.

So yeah, I really enjoyed the experience so far, and I look forward to playing the game proper once it comes out. Fangs for reading, har har har.

Here have some random screenshots with descriptions in the alt text. (This is my first attempt at adding alt text.)

[cafe-of-insomnaics]

So I started playing Vampire Therapist, and I'm already in love, I'm honestly surprised no fanfics have popped up.

I wanna kiss Sam, Crimson, Andromachus, and a few more

Just let me, give them a little kiss, peck if you will, maybe a bite

Sam might get the bite, I go feral with cowboys

Now I'm also thinking of Arthur Morgan and Sam Walls talking to each other