Posted on: April 14, 2014

GuidoJanssens

Spiele: 245 Rezensionen: 17

Needs to be played, but unfortunately...

S1 is a tremendous game, it has a dreamlike world, nice puzzles and an interesting steampunkish story. S2 has the nice graphics in common, but lacks in the 'dreaminess' of the adventure and has a few logical errors and too many program errors. How does it come that Kate can walk around in a monastery where women are forbidden? Is it wise to slide down a hill (in a coffin!) with a man who was dying a few minutes before? But what really annoyed me was that the answers of the people you talk to don't match the situation you are in. So, let's say that you need a certain plant or berry and that you have already found those. You go to the person who needs it and that persons says out of the blue: perhaps you could go and look for some berries to give me. Well, moron, that's what I just did! These kind of program errors are abundant and ruin the conversations in the game.

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Posted on: February 1, 2020

Pomme_de_Pain

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Spiele: 322 Rezensionen: 107

Good game but..

Like the first one, same gameplay same mechanics. The technique is better : smoothers movements and displacement, it has more rythme that the first. The world is still unique, voice acting and story great but simple. Black spot : the part the village is really a pain in the a**. You had to go back and forth so many times to resolve the puzzles, it was so long that it got me out of the game. The ending was to quick.

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Posted on: March 12, 2022

Louard_le_Barbare

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Spiele: 295 Rezensionen: 126

Very satisfying (but not perfect) sequel

Syberia 2 is pretty good. It does not really fix the flaws of the first entry of the series, but at least it keeps building on its strengths. The story, which picks up right where the first game stopped, is more focused on developing Kate Walker as a character. While the gameplay is still fairly slow-paced and puzzle-focused, there is a real sense of urgency and suspense to the plot; the adventure feels much more eventful, action-packed and exciting. It's pretty clear that the game was designed and written by a Belgian comic artist, and if you like old-school “bandes dessinées” in the style of Tintin, you'll definitely feel at home here. The atmosphere is less melancholic this time around, but it's still a great game when it comes to mood. Visually, it looks even better than Syberia 1, with even more detailed backgrounds, better character models and animations, a higher framerate... And of course, the character and set designs are still unique and awesome. Some minor but welcome changes have also been made to the UI. Sadly, the game is still locked at a 800x600 resolution, but it can apparently be fixed with a little tweaking. Gameplay-wise, it's mostly more of the same: but while Syberia 2 starts off easier than its predecessor, with puzzles that seem to make more logical sense than in the previous adventure, that does not really last. After you leave the town of Romansburg, pixel-hunting and enigmas that rely on trial and error are back. In fact, the puzzles here are arguably more twisted and nonsensical than in the first game: even with the help of a walkthrough, the solutions often appear to be arbitrary and counterintuitive. There's nothing you can't figure out yourself, but this kind of game design can be hard to forgive in a 2004 game. Overall, while it has its flaws and can be at times more annoying than the first game, Syberia 2 does not feel like a rehash, manages to be a solid continuation of the storyline, and brings it to a satisfying conclusion.

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Posted on: August 14, 2022

CarChris

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Spiele: 171 Rezensionen: 86

Immediate sequel.

The game has about the same duration as the first, but its riddles seemed to me a bit more difficult, so I had to check a walkthrough a few times in order to move on (while in the first game I hadn’t checked, not even once). Maybe because there were more riddles of a mechanical nature than the first game, apart from the inventory based. Nonetheless, you’ve got to see it (even with the help of a walkthrough), as we follow the continuation of the first game’s story, and we witness Kate’s, Hans’ and Oscar’s fate!

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Posted on: June 3, 2019

mdqp

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Spiele: 1950 Rezensionen: 71

A good game, marred by one section...

Syberia 2 is a direct sequel to Syberia, it continues the story exactly where it left, and bring some closure on a few events that were left open in the first game. I won't discuss much of the story because of this (there is a video to recap the events of the first one included in the game, but I'd recommend playing that one first, if you are interested). The game is also a point and click adventure, just like its prequel. Technically speaking, the game seems a more polished version of the first. The pre-rendered backgrounds look even better, the 3D characters are more detailed, the animations and moving around in general seems faster and a bit more responsive. The gameplay is largely identical, inheriting the same strengths and weaknesses. The game is streamlined, offering only one mouse button to interact with everything, with right-clicking reserved to opening the inventory, and it lacks a bit in interactivity. You move faster, but you still can't double click exits to immediately reach another area. The game has a great atmosphere, like the first one (and the same mix of melancholy and fantastical), some nice, colorful characters, and a good score that fits the mood. The plot itself isn't too grandiose, just like the first game, but it's a nice vehicle for the atmosphere and the characters. Sadly, one area presents all the flaws that were in the first game, rolled into one. At one point, you'll reach a certain village, which is huge, mostly empty, slow to navigate, with a lot puzzles that are a mix of busywork, pixel hunting, and contrived situations. It drags the experience down quite a bit, in my opinion, since while the area is challenging (unlike most of the game that is easy to breeze through), it achieves this with the worst possible methods. The game is overall an enjoyable adventure (I'd give it a 7, if I could), despite this, so I'd recommend it to fans of the genre that don't mind a bit of frustration, if they like the description.

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