Blood Codes, Abilities, and “Gifts”
Outside of the various weapons you have access to, Code Vein layers on a ton of different abilities known as “Gifts,” and a sort of class system called “Blood Codes.” In our demo we could only equip one Blood Code, but there was an indication of at least three different codes. Fighter focused on delivering heavy attacks with big weapons, Assassin was focused on combination attacks, and Caster excels at using attack Gifts.
Code Vein is a complex game, and that’s before you layer in the different Gifts, your character’s cloak, passive abilities, and consumables. Gifts are going to be a huge part of your arsenal, and they have a variety of uses like cloaking yourself in a shield that’ll soak up the next attack you take, or coating your weapon in ice. The Gifts you get are specific to your Blood Code, but our demo did state that by beating certain enemies you can become proficient with certain Gifts, letting you equip them regardless of which code you have.
All of these complex systems and layers make Code Vein a bit of a challenge to learn, however, it seems like once you do it’ll be quite rewarding. In just a short amount of time, once I figured out how to use all of my Gifts combat started flowing smoothly.
