Syberia

Still to this date this game still holds up, kinda, charming backgrounds an nice voice over, a classic point and click adventure.

Justa great never aginig adventure game, even 22 years after its's release most moder games may learn from it.

I enjoy point n click adventures and Syberia just stuck out to me and drew me in. Playing it for the first time, I've got mostly positive things to say about it, and some critical negatives. Looks great, the pre-rendered backgrounds, cutscenes, scenes really hold up. The artist put a lot of work into the environments and it shows with lots of connecting scenes when you go through places to places. Plot is intriguing, you're a lawyer sent to seal the deal on a factory, when suddenly the owner dies and just before you can get this job over with, you find out they have an heir and it's your quest to go find them by going...To Syberia. Music is nice. You can run by double clicking a location, which is quite nice actually. Voice work is pretty fine. Even with some annoying characters The puzzles I've encountered thus far are logical and makes sense, none of the crazy absurb moon logic solutions like say monkey island. Now for the negatives and I really would have liked to not have to rag on the game but it must be said. Interaction ui is poor. No text or highlight to let you know you can interact with things, only the cursor changing shapes and such. normally this should be fine, but I was streaming this game in window mode which has my actual cursor blocking the ingame cursor. This sucks because I slid past items I should have normally seen. regardless it could be better. Puzzle solutions blend into the background too well. with the above problem, it makes interactables easy to glance over. No examine button, it's weird that it doesn't have one because it may have helped with either finding things I can interact with and/or given me a hint on what to do for some puzzles. No chat/quest logs to double check information you have talked about with npcs. I forgot about some detail and couldn't ask for the information again. no auto save, my game crashed and I forgot this is one of those old games where you need to save every so often. Itsa nice game, try it out

Challenging yet rewarding to play, the first of a series of games by Benoit Sokal!

A Classic - been looking to re-play this for a number of years.