Posted on: March 21, 2020

joebrueske

Games: 205 Reviews: 5

It's Okay

After finishing part one yesterday, I knew I had to pick up part two after reading some reviews. I was a bit sad that part two was not as long as part one. There's a decent amount of areas, but there are fewer cast members, and the job subplot is worthless. It was still worth at least 10 hours of game play. Even though there's more pixels, I did experience some interesting glitches. None of the character mouths moved correctly. They always moved way too quickly. During Act 3 after getting a mask, all characters walked two times as fast. Kind of a benefit going between scenes. I also noticed that dialog would get cut off for most characters after the half way point. The puzzles are still fairly simple, and the items you need aren't hidden too much. Except in Act 3. It's like someone decided, let's stop putting things in plain site. Then they decided not to give any clues, or maybe I didn't find them, for the end game puzzle. Took me almost 30 minutes to hunt and peck my way through it. Aaaah adventure games. Good times! So, I give this a two for keeping the play style the same, good creative direction and over all look. The wrapping up of the subplots is God awful. I know we're using the phone as a device, but really, cell phones working in the tundra of Siberia? Come on. This was also one of my challenges with part one. The subplots are just crammed down your throat whether you like it or not. Though, in the first game, one of the other characters is used in a puzzle. So, there is that. I don't know. I just really hate the cell phone.

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Posted on: March 11, 2024

andrewjtryon

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Games: 205 Reviews: 4

I stopped playing after maybe 10 minutes

One of my main gripes with Syberia was the amount of time you spend watching the main protagonist pause in front of a staircase before slowly ascending/descending said staircase. This didn't need to be animated. Watching someone slowly traverse stairs is not interesting. Especially with the amount of backtracking I had to do in that game to find pixel-sized plot items for a puzzle on the other side of the current area. More out of a desire for completionism than anything else, I started the second game after completing the first. One of the first things that happens in the very beginning of the game is watching the main character pause at the top of a small staircase off a train car and then slowly descend it. Maybe I'll come back to this someday, but right now my time is taken up by more pressing matters, such as watching water boil or staring at the walls contemplating my life choices.

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Posted on: December 13, 2013

sh00t3rman

Games: 244 Reviews: 3

Not worth the time to play it

It's ok, as far as adventure games go. I thought the ending was very disappointing, especially after all you have to go through to get there. You are in the same location for most of the game, with decent puzzles and story but it gets very old being in the same place for so long. It goes downhill from there though with a story that becomes more and more random, unresolved side threads, and puzzles that stump you not because you couldn't put the clues together but because there were no clues at all (the old "put this random object on a random spot and suddenly everything works" puzzle). Do yourself a favor and skip this one. The first is pretty good though.

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Posted on: December 22, 2018

brucemor

Verified owner

Games: 18 Reviews: 3

Syberia 3

To sum up: Good story. Good graphics. Good music. Good vocal acting (especially the actress who played Kate). Good puzzles (although the radiation goggles dispenser puzzle was kind of sneaky). Terrible user interface. The game is incredibly buggy. You can't save where you want to, the game only automatically saves at certain "checkpoints". If you get stuck on a puzzle and quit, the game resumes at the last "checkpoint", and you have to solve all the puzzles from that point on all over again. I really wanted to finish this game. But, I got to the point where the ferry was towed onto the beach at Baranour Park, and the game gave up the ghost. The hotspots vanished. Even the cursor vanished, even though the animations continued looping. Microids: please fix your bugs!

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Posted on: May 14, 2010

LaRosse

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Games: 408 Reviews: 15

Too slow compared to the Syberia 1

This game gets worse in all weaker parts of the Syberia 1 as Syberia did not have many. The main issue is the need to move from one screen across lots of screens to another screen just to proceed in the game, then move back to the first screen etc. All the screens have wonderful graphics though. However some (lots) are missing any interaction. Especially in the Youkol village. Another issue that is quite common in adventures is the "pixelhunting". Which is quite strange because there aren't many items in the screens. Or maybe I am lazy. Just finished the game and feeling a bit bored (not from the story but from the way you have to progress). 6/10

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