Posted on: July 28, 2016

fade0ff

Spiele: 1233 Rezensionen: 83

Aged and a bit shallow but worth playing

I played Dreamfall in 2006 when it was released and had very fond memories of it. At that time, it was beautiful and one of the first 3D adventures where you could freely move around. Actually it impressed me so much back then, that I bought and played Longest Journey to learn more about April Ryan. However, that game was technically horrible even in 2006 though I still liked it, especially for April and Crow. So I happily pledged for Dreamfall Chapters on Kickstarter in 2013 and now that all chapters are released, I decided to replay Dreamfall before starting Chapters as I forgot most of the story's details. So now, after ten years, I played Dreamfall again and of course it looks a bit aged now. The environments and characters are all very low poly where some locations still look nice but the faces of most main characters are somewhat scary due to complete lack of detail. Also all of the locations are very small and you get a (short) loading screen every few meters. Worst of all is that the mouse look is completely screwed up. Even when fixing the inversion etc., you still can't look up and down which makes it impossible to fully inspect the scenery and which is totally annoying in a longer dungeon sequence. Game wise, Dreamfall is somewhere in the middle between an interactive movie and an actual adventure. There are some typical adventure puzzles but most of them are extremely obvious and straight forward. Some locks involve puzzle games but they are very simple. Also the few fight sequences are total crap. And there are a lot of scenes where you do nothing at all but running and talking. And yes, there is some stupid running around but as the maps are all very small, it's not that annoying. Well and there's one totally screwed up puzzle (musical runes) which is just bad design. Still, even without Dreamfall Chapters I think Dreamfall is worth experiencing though it's certainly not a perfect game. For every owner of Chapters, it's a must play anyway.

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Posted on: March 25, 2019

Vitoner

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Spiele: 251 Rezensionen: 4

Great story, gameplay doesn't hold up.

This game comes from a time in wich adventure games were trying to figure themselves out in the 3D era. I'll sum up the game in pros and cons. PROS - Great story, great characters, interesting and thought-provoking themes - Graphics are pretty good considering it's a game from 2006 - The acting is solid almost across the board - The soundtrack is really good CONS - The world is fleshed out, but without playing the previous installment I feel you could feel kinda lost sometimes when it comes to the lore, the terminology, etc. - It's more movie than game, there are really annoying bits in wich you basically have to run from one point to the other just to trigger a cutscene to advance the story, or fetch-questy equivalents - Puzzles are ridiculously easy to the point I have solved a couple before even realizing there were puzzles to solve. There's this one puzzle though, it's terrible: at one point you'll have to remember a tune, problem is you get no hint or anything that would make you think that tune is important and you can only hear it once during a cutscene. No musical memory? Maybe you were not paying attention to the music? You can't solve the puzzle. I've had to look up a walkthrough after wandering aimlessly for 40+ minutes. - The stealth sections range from annoyingly easy and tedious to one example of truly rage-quitting awfulness (I'm talking about the Troll's Cave, when you reach that bit look up a walkthrough or load a save game from later in the game, trust me) - Combat is super janky and unresponsive - The game ends on a bunch of cliffhangers. You'll get little to no resolution without playing Dreamfall Chapters. OVERALL It's boring, it's janky, it's tedious, it's not well designed in many spots, but for me the quality of the plot and the writing makes a playthrough worth it (if you don't want to watch the game on Youtube), especially for fans of the previous installment. If you're a "gameplay first" person, stay away from this game.

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Posted on: May 22, 2019

matrixdll

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Spiele: 318 Rezensionen: 7

Strong start, weak ending

Also braindead puzzles. By its predecessor's standards it should be legally tagged as a "walking simulator". I've started off the series with this game, overall liked it (solid story and dialogs, above average voice acting), but didn't catch all the references to the previous game. After finishing The Longest Journey and replaying Dreamfall: TLJ, I found out that the game is reference-pandering an awful lot towards the fans of the characters and the world of the first game. Just a shame that they've utterly dumbed down the puzzle challenges, making it borderline interactive movie (on the other hand, the 90s standards for puzzle challenges wouldn't fly in 2000s, so I can understand decision to streamline the story-telling the developers were certainly interested in the most). What I can't understand and won't forgive is having no conclusion to the story whatsoever, leaving the audience with dreadfully blatant cliffhanger and entire premise in the state of perpetual mess (damn Valve and their bigger than life HL2 project for normalizing that trend among the games!) Still, the ride was interesting while it lasted, so if you're okay with cliffhangers and want to hear a good old world conspiracy story full of half-truths and mysteries - go for it.

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Posted on: April 5, 2020

aalhard

Spiele: 76 Rezensionen: 2

when the stars align, it shows

This series The Longest Journey, Dreamfall:TLJ,& Dreamfall Chapters is genera definining! The story is transcendant. Released over many years, the 1st part is early in 3D playstyle but the story outshines any technical shortcomings from the era. The play becomes more polished with each of the 3 parts, choices matter and you deal with consequences as the story irresitably pulls you along. GET THIS

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Posted on: July 8, 2018

briandoodo

Spiele: 236 Rezensionen: 39

Not a satisfying sequel

So, you loved TLJ? You loved the main protagonist, related to her story? You were into the narrative of the first game and invested in April Ryan's journey? You were hoping to see her continue her journey and follow her on another adventure? You had fun watching the character grow, evolve, become more confident? Then DO NOT buy this game, pretend it doesn't even exist. If TLJ's ending disappointed you even in the slightest way by making April not the chosen one....then don't even come with 10 miles of this game. April, while playing a pivotal role in the first game was not the chosen one. Regardless her character under went an interpersonal struggle and left an lasting impression on the heart's of millions across the world.... The sequel throws away everything you loved about the character, making her cowardly, emo, void of any spunk or creativity....leaving her broken, hopeless and desperate. This would have been a terrible way to end TLJ, leaving fans across the world disappointed and perhaps never allowing for the game to be the classic that it is today... It's a terrible way to start a sequel. As defenable as it is, because it's from the same creator...it's just the worst imaginable treatment of a main protagonist the world has ever seen. The main protagonist takes second seat to a new character... and is killed off in the most meaningless and anti climatic way possible with a horrible non expressive, non dramatic cut scene which adds nothing to the story. The player who was a avid fan of the first game and was looking for more of the story is left with major disappointment and heart ache... This has to be one of the worst sequels ever made and one of the easiest to pretend that it never existed. If you are looking for an actual continuation of the first game and it's main protagonist I would disregard this title and just use your own imagination to make up what happened to April. This game is worst than anything you' d imagine and you'll just be sad.

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