Syberia

This phrase applies as well to the game itself as the numerous blocked paths and inaccessible places in the world. The scenery is pretty, but voice acting is bad, character models are atrocious (even by 2002 standards) and gameplay is... well, there isn't any. Puzzles are simultaneously trivial and obtuse. The story didn't really grab me either, contrary to what I've read in other reviews. There plenty of adventure games out there without glaring issues like these, so hit those before you feel the need to check this out.

Alas, the eventual immersion with highly acclaime specimen of the quest genre turned to be dissapointing for quite mundane reasons. Even delaying the attempt to fainally pass the game by 15 years did not help to see more patched and polished product. Passing the game turned out to be simply impossible without implanting external saves as already in Barrockstadt alone I came across of two intances of being fully blocked from progressing by bugs. Once the necessaruy dialogue topic "Sauvignon" failed to appear even with all the conditions fulfilled (was ok for the saves I found on the Internet), another case featured the captain tryinng to look in a telescope and - poof! - just dissapearning and jamming the anumation scene turning the game non-responsive. Sorry, it is still quite a noticeable ratio of issues per itemes of game to consider it playable.

One of the best adventures I've ever played. A brilliant storyline, great logical puzzles and gameplay. Truly fantastic

While I really like games of this type, Syberia failed to draw me in. I got bored about halfway through and never finished. Some of the puzzles were good, others were dull. The landscape wasn't that interesting, and the story line didn't captivate. The several hours I played felt more like plodding than playing.

I'm relatively new to game playing so don't bring the sophistication that some reviewers do (eg, their fluent use ot the gamers patoi). However, I feel that the animation is great, and I liked the character of Kate, whose NY street savvy was not up to her encounters in Europe: she grows through this movie. The cell calls were annoying at first till I saw how they revealed her growth. I was put off by some of the accents (why did Helena have a passable Russian accent and yet the old wino cosmonaut have an American one: perhaps a subtle joke!?) I'm getting used to lots of pixel hunting in these games (eg, as in The Longest Journey), though finding it annoying at times. For the most part the clues were fairly self-evident, but some were very obscur and seemed irrelevant to the plot at that point (eg, why on earth would a "telescope" key fit the door to the Voralberg estate?). Some of the dialogues drive one crazy (eg, between Kate and obessive-compulsive Oscar) but the guidance menu was useful (eg, Mission). Not sure I'd bother with the sequel: like movies and novels, sequels don't usually cut it for me. I think that the maker of this game was poking fun in many different directions and I enjoyed that.