Syberia 3: The Complete Journey

I'm reluctant to write something so negative because I've previously worked in a games studio and appreciate the immense amount of effort that goes into creating a game under pressure from deadlines etc, but dear lord. I recently played 1 & 2 for the nostalgia and got lured into three, assuming it would a similar dose of the same. Sadly it couldn't be more different if it tried. I lost my mind running in circles as the conversion to 3D has made the controls AWFUL (on laptop with track pad). Every time the camera changes, the directional controls switch direction and drive you bananas. Who's idea was it to make the action highlight symbol a small white dot that resembles snow... in a game where it REGULAR SNOWS!? *breaths* The script and voice acting is dire and often stock American, being completely innapropriate for pretty much every character in the game. At one point it used blatant AI, but janky AI from 2017 with zero intonation. I spent the majority of the game feeling uncomfortable becuase I couldn't work out how racist it was. Half the "puzzles" were Kate just straight up being a criminal. Whats with all the stealing stuff from boxes and breaking windows!? And if I didn't play the entire thing with a walkthrough (because I'll be damned if I'm exploring this clunky game at normal speed) some of the puzzles were so abstract you just plain wouldn't solve them. At least they preserved one element of the previous games. Endlessly running around MASSIVE playable areas, with very very few puzzles. Oh wait. That was a nightmare too. *breaths* OK. I've got that all out of my system. I appreciate there were huge delays to the release of this thing and I can only imagine how stressful it was for those who worked on it, but the result is SUCH a shame. *takes a deep breath because I know I'm still going to play the next one*

Played 1 and 2 long time before, but could not have them on Mac. I love everything from music to plot, it is easier to navigate, sometimes stuck with order of actions.

This game really doesnt deserve the low scores it gets

I enjoyed the game much while playing so at first didn't understand the low score. Sure the controls are not the best but not unlike other adventure games. It is not like it is an action game .... until it is (ok only two of those are there but still). So in some bout of insanity they decided to put some stuff in here that you need to do real fast. Of course adventure game makers don't have the resources to smooth out gameplay for that or test it on a lot of devices. For me on a 9350 16/32 AMD processor, RTX2080Ti Oc and 64GB of memory AND notably a UHD display, it clearly couldn't keep up. The UHD is important here because from the complaints and solutions it seems the controller speed is tied to the screen resolution making it impossible to do the action sequences with a controller and for the second one the mouse is a pain if not impossible. Now long story short there is a savegame supplied by Microids (great job Microids, a publisher that supports their games even after you bought them unlike a certain publisher of udontplay launchers). And thanks Kevin here on the boards for the suggestion. This is the link BTW https://support.syberia3.com/en/support/solutions/articles/23000006981-syberia-3-savegames The game itself I thought was actually pretty good. This is the last 'real' Syberia game. It has the Youkols, Oscar and of course Kate in it (the fourth Syberia is a great adventure and gorgeous to look at but less of an Syberia game). The game is now 3D and is pretty well done for an adventure. No surreal graphics this time around though. In the end I greatly enjoyed it and I highly recomend it but with the savegame from the Microids site.

Story: 2/5 Worldbuilding: 2/5 Art Design: 5/5 Graphics: 3/5 Sound: 4/5 Gameplay: 3/5