Posted on: January 12, 2025

mochipoppins

Games: 55 Reviews: 1

Disappointing

I adore the Syberia series and 1 and 2 are easily some of my favorite adventure games; right up there with Myst and Riven. But this one is such a deep disappointment. The writing is frustratingly and laughably written. Conversations are awkward, stilted and use way to much "tell don't show" which is excruciating at times - especially when you can't even skip the poor dialgue to just move the game along. The graphics are lovely and the music is wonderful - but those are the only two aspects worthy of praise. The story overall is trite, inconsequensial and bordering on being a waste of your time. It feels almost as if the devs of this game didn't really understand the Syberia world and mythos and just painting something they had with Syberia-like paint scheme. It was a dollar, but I still can't finish this game. Moving on.

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Posted on: June 2, 2021

rapilki

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Games: 178 Reviews: 2

Traditional adventure game

Not bad, definitely worth the £3.79 I paid for it. I like Benoit Sokal's games having played both the previous Syberias (really part 1 and 2 of the same game) and Amerzone. This, like those looked good, had an engaging atmosphere and reasonable puzzles. I was less happy the the interface which I found clunky and sometimes unmanagable. Some of the scene transitions took a very long time and Kate Walker sometimes got stuck in a corner. (some of the performance issues may have been due to shortcomings in my PC's spec). There was one bug which locked the game totally which is well documented and is probably not down to my equipment. (In the Metro under the fairground). Perseverance is required to get round this bug. (I shut down all background processes and ran the game with the minimum settings). If you like adventure games and can get it for around a fiverthen I'd go for it.

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Posted on: June 19, 2023

neopagan

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Games: 118 Reviews: 6

Not bad at all, but,,,

I didn't expect the same game as Syberia I or II as the times are changing, but these are my findings about this game: - first of all, the game graphics and music are really great and surprising - story not bad at all, however weaker than in Syberia I or II, but with combination of the game graphics quite immersive - very annoying camera, controls and character movement, you don't see where you can go, the camera is switching very weird way - quite bad inventory usage, don't expect click and drag behavior, Interaction with objects is sometimes buggy - the cursor disappears or ignores clicks. - very often long loading times (with just a black screen) even after you enter any door or another room - Dialogues cannot be skipped, - No way to save the game, only automatically on game decided checkpoints - interesting logical puzzles, but killed by poor controls : it is very hard to complete some actions with your mouse - specially when you need to drag/switch some levers, gears, or turn a wheel etc. - you try to turn but your mouse is already on the top corner of the screen and the wheel is not turning at all - some nonlogical elements in the game - e.g. in a big storm on the water the monster is attracted by a small gramophone placed on a boat :D I don't think during the storm anything else can be hear - some puzzles are really overkill, maybe just to increase the gameplay time The game has not the magic game feeling from Syberia I. or II., however the gameplay is longer, graphics are amazing and despite all the above mentioned points, I think it is worth to play.

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Posted on: November 10, 2017

wormholewizards

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Games: 581 Reviews: 13

Field Technician Simulator?

The game try to be ambitious but sadly the execution isn't there. The puzzles are tedious, at one point you do wonder are you really an adventurer or an on-site technician?

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Posted on: May 25, 2018

Pavlyuch

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Games: 382 Reviews: 2

Good itself, but so many problems...

First, technical problems - game won't work for me natively on windows with AMD card. No snow in menu, no Kate model, and endless loading. I'm only able to play it without problems on linux with wine. Yes, you read it right - native windows game don't work in windows, but works great on linux in wine. I see what Sokal wanted to give us, but bad developers, that can't work with unity, killed all the fun of the game. Huge FPS drops (not because of wine, on youtube i've seen the same), dissapearing mouse pointer, bad controls, abrupt sounds in dialogs and many more. It's not great. You just made from us beta testers of Syberia 3. If you had money problem, then why didn't you do the kickstarter campaign? Second - game itself. I am a huge fan of Syberia. After i've done second game, i didn't feel that Kate's story needed continuation. It was a perfect happy end. But whatever. Third game has a very good atmosphere like the previous games, has a great soundtrack that perfectly fits the game, has a solid storyline and amazing design (i'm not about graphics). All that i saw negative is that voices of actors not always fits to their game characters (like a Steiner that is a very old man but has a voice of 20 old man) and ending that is a huge disappointment for me. Or Sokal was hoping to do fourth game? I hope not. Epilogue - for those, who have not played yet and are going to buy the game - buy it, and when you play, try to ignore technical issues, because the game itself is very good

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