Syberia

After playing all four games (and replaying Syberia 1 & 2), I still think this is the best of them. I love the solitary atmosphere, the elegiac tone, the post industrial decay, the feeling of a dying world, the melancholic music and the sense of journey. The puzzles are quite logical and not too taxing. The world is unique and is still the most interesting out of the series, with plenty of automatons in all the locations. Unfortunately the pre-rendered backgrounds don’t hold up that well because of what is now a low resolution. Also not so great is how much time you’ll spend watching Kate go up and down the large number of stairs.

6.5/10 Syberia is certainly not bad; i looks and sounds good, it also controls fairly well and the story was intersting enough to keep me going. The game feels, though, a little bit suffocating: it all is unnecessary slow, moody, weighty and vast. maybe it's a cultural thing but the characters and their subsequent dialogues are ( i believe) generally meant to be colourful, quirky and nice-ish but to me it is just offputting and ugh. disliking your lead chaarcter is never a good thing. the puzzles are ok; fairly well made and a few were fun enough, but Kate has to burglarise and steal everthing in her path because, as a whole, the puzzles and her journey make no sense whatsoever. I'd recommend you only play this after you allready played the LucasArts PointNClicks, Blade Runner and The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.

Very enjoyable game . . . have played it several times!

Old point and click with really good atmospehere, some puzzles are not that intuitive (think about your phone)

It would be a 5/5 but the game crashed after 4 hours, and I haven't made a save file yet... It was bit annoying to do it again. It's a good point and click, but keep this in mind, and save often!