Syberia 3: The Complete Journey

I really don't understand how it is possible to release a game that is impossible to play. Not only do you have to solve the puzzles, but first of all you have to find ways to bypass the bugs that occur one after another. Shameful. And the moment comes when you can't fix the bug anymore and you can't proceed. You are stuck in place. You check the walkthroughs, you have done everything suggested, but while the game continues in the video, you remain stuck. And you don't understand why. If you don't want to lose your patience don't buy this game.

Syberia 1 & 2 were just beautiful. Everything about them was such a joy to behold. This one... craps all over thir legacy. The story is 'wtf', the animations are very poor and lack-lustre, NPC's constantly walk into walls and stop moving, Kate's pathfinding can be utterfly dreadful, and not to mention the controls!! There is no possible way this was QA tested and the tester said 'Yep, it's perfect, no notes'. You are constantly fighting the camera. Actions are slow, dialogue is UNSKIPPABLE and repeats itself a lot, and although it has a long playtime (about 10hr at 40% complete as of this review- only fell asleep once) it is padded BIG TIME with slow, monotonous, repetitive dialogue, super slow animations, huge screens with nothing to look at and, for some strange reason, the background music reminds me of Xena! I do love Xena, but in this setting it doesn't make any sense. Dialogue choices are misleading and make no difference- I didn't expect them to change anything, but when I choose an angry response, I don't expect what Kate actually says to be whiny and annoying. Voice acting rarely matches the characters which really annoys me. I got this for cheap, just to finish the trilogy, but it has pretty much nothing to do with 1 & 2. I feel like Sokal just wanted to send a message, and after playing the Prologue for The World Before, that's probably right.

Compared to the height of the first two parts, that's really not comparable. However, the game developers have tried some good modern treatments, and although some players may not like it, I actually play it well. If you can accept: Strange perspective switching Some small bugs, big and small Occasional animation model loss and minor texture issues Our nomad's mobility is worrying. (Reminds me of the second season of the game "Walking Dead") Then you can go play and don't give up this sequel just because the rating is low.

Short review: Average game with bad user interface (UI). Really for Syberia fans only. Long review: Having just finished the game I will say I enjoyed my time with Syberia 3. Let me start with the bad stuff, the interface. I found both controller and mouse were both not good and I switched back and forth a lot. Sometimes the curser would just disappear, other times the controller would not pick up the hot spots on screen, generally the interface is slow to register your actions and a bit clunky. After a while I got used to most of it, but you might not. This game was made with Unity by a small dev team so I was not expecting anything amazing from the visuals. They are fine, nothing amazing and nothing ugly. What I did enjoy was the world, puzzles, and music. The game has the same atmosphere that the first two had with empty town streets or a rusted amusement park and more. I liked it. The puzzles were fine. Nothing new for these types of games. The music was very good and added to the atmosphere well. The story was fine. In the end I did enjoy the journey even with the bad controls. In closing, I would only recommend this game to fans of the first two since it has the atmosphere, puzzles, and pace of the first two games. For newcomers, I would urge you to play the other two first and if you like them buy this game.

It's always simple bad decisions that ruin games. Years of studying to gain skills to do what not just anyone can do, but screwing it up because of bad decisions that just about anyone off the street could correct them on. So, the first and most important thing is I didn't finish the game because of a glitch where an item I had disappeared, and the game doesn't allow saves...it just saves the game for you, so no going back to a previous save. Inventory was bad. Camera was bad. People talking when you haven't responded in a few seconds got annoying. When using a controller which is the best option for their gameplay since they catered to consoles, you can't see all the interaction options until you're close. Running yet again wasn't default or a toggleable option. Who walks in these games? Make it default. Can't skip dialog, so if you've heard dialog before, you have to sit through it. A decade and a half after the first game, and there's still slow movements (opening doors, stairs, etc), which was the biggest hindrance in the first two games. Contrast that with something like Myst where you can move quickly instead of spending half the game watching the character get from point A to point B. Completely different play style. Just because it's been years doesn't mean the style has to completely change. Like Matrix 4...why is it that after years the creators just go a completely different direction? Just use the same style and polish it up with modern mechanics and it'll give people more of what they loved. It was made for consoles and whenever you do that, it makes a game worse. If Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, etc was primarily made for consoles, they wouldn't be as good. But they were ported to console later and are timeless classics. If Uncharted was made for PC, the combat would have been leagues better. So would Syberia 3.