![]() ![]() There’s a desolate beauty to every place you visit, with my personal highlight being an old Soviet spa still in use and clearly crumbling away into the sea. Every location is either in Eastern or Western Europe, and they’re all relics of the age of the great and cold wars. With their odd personalities and hammy voice acting, they wouldn’t be out of place in a Tin Tin serial. Your train’s automaton operator, Oscar, sticks out significantly for his normal mechanical detachment contrasted with his more human moments. It does a great job of creating this exaggerated, fascinating world, as though every character in every land feels like they came out of a different story from an old pulp book. Syberia‘s setting is easily one of its strongest aspects. As the game goes on, every area Kate enters becomes stranger and more dreamlike, as she’s forced to confront her feelings on the world she has to return to. She also discovers that Hans was a genius inventor responsible for the factory’s signature goods, clock and gear automatons. Thus, Kate has to track down the illusive heir and seal the deal. The owner died, and a surprise heir was revealed in the form of her brother Hans, still alive somewhere out in Siberia. The game followed Kate Walker, an American lawyer representing a law firm assisting in a deal to buy out an old factory in a small French town called Valadilène. With a team of 35 people and a budget of two million euros (!), Syberia came out in the same year as Post Mortem, stemming to break away from the first person style Sokal used in his last game ( Amerzone) to a more traditional third person view. So what makes the series stick out to so many? What does it do that’s so rare? Still, that good will was so strong that these games have been ported all over the place, and it even earned a third game many years later. The series has been applauded for its art direction and surprisingly mature themes (by that, I mean actually mature as it explores themes of age and personal fulfillment and not shoot shoot bang titty curse word), but also flogged for simplistic mechanics. It’s become one of the most treasured and remembered works in Microïds library, though not without a lot of debate attached. You'll enjoy a beautiful story about a woman helping an old man fulfilling his lifelong dreams.Designed by comic artist Benoît Sokal and developed by Microïds, the Syberia series has become an odd little chapter in the history of point and click adventure games. I think you should give these two games (the first 2 are the only ones I've played at the moment) a try even if you're not so much into these types of games. This game's not part of my childhood, nor did I play any other graphic adventures on my childhood, yet again the atmosphere, the mood, the music, the characters and the story make me feel nostalgic of a time I haven't lived and that may not even exist. this game's also beautiful, and it makes me very nostalgic for a reason I cannot explain, as I played the first one just a year ago. Besides that, this is an old game, which means it's more or less ugly (that's subjective), clunky, sometimes it requires way too much backtracking, the pacing is not so good, many dialogues are nonsensical and many puzzles are barely explained.īut the thing is. I prefer to have a little more control of the main character than only using a mouse cursor to tell them where to go. The thing is I don't really like point-and-click graphic adventures so much. I just played Syberia 2 and I just wanted to share a little review and a feeling this game gives me. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. ![]() Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases. A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. ![]()
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