Syberia 3: The Complete Journey

I love Syberia series, because it was my starting point to adventure genre. Well, to be honest I don't play this game for long time, because I know that this game is bad, buut I didn't expect sooo bad experience in every aspect. Visual (4/10) Graphics is average, at least we have new Kate and Oscar models, but locations looks really terrible. It feels that everything except Kate and Oscar just bad copy paste dev models, that should be replaced. I liked only one location - park in Baranour, it reminds me set of locations from first Syberia. Music is also average, not so bad, but we listen only 1-2 similar songs and ambient theme all game, so for me it feels annoying. Interface - it was pain in my "back" all the time. All game time I spend just to point proper way to location. At the Olimpia level I even restart game several time because I get to dead end and don't understand how I should point Kate way out. Even more if you can handle with your way - you will face with lots of bugs with bag and interaction circles. Gameplay (5/10) Gameplay is awfull - locations are badly designed. You can run through several just empty screens for nothing, almost everything is badly scripting - for example in latest location on the bridge you need to speak on ALL themes with Kurk, before custom oficer will came. On the other hand I think some puzzles are really fun to solve, especially last one and puzzle with mirrors. Adding more mouse controls to open smth or turn is very controversal I also don't like this part very much because of pure in game realization. Story (2/10) One point for Kate and another one for Oscar. Story is ridiculus, with lots of confusing moments, so if you like Syberia, you should be prepared that story was written by 12 year old teen as fandom. All in all, instead of great adventure as Syberia was originaly, you just play with some puzzles and saw Kate and Oscar one more time, just to prepare yourself befor final Syberia chapter.

The game is good but it has quite a few things that don't suit it. The camera is sometimes not the best, and some points where you can interact do not always appear and you have to be playing with the mouse and moving. In addition to some problem in the animations. I feel that a large part of it is due to the change from 2d to 3d. Putting those things aside and it's worth it to be back in the world of Syberia and something else that I won't comment on for the sake of spoilers. I liked it, but I recommend getting it on sale, not at full price.

I really don't understand how it is possible to release a game that is impossible to play. Not only do you have to solve the puzzles, but first of all you have to find ways to bypass the bugs that occur one after another. Shameful. And the moment comes when you can't fix the bug anymore and you can't proceed. You are stuck in place. You check the walkthroughs, you have done everything suggested, but while the game continues in the video, you remain stuck. And you don't understand why. If you don't want to lose your patience don't buy this game.

Syberia 1 & 2 were just beautiful. Everything about them was such a joy to behold. This one... craps all over thir legacy. The story is 'wtf', the animations are very poor and lack-lustre, NPC's constantly walk into walls and stop moving, Kate's pathfinding can be utterfly dreadful, and not to mention the controls!! There is no possible way this was QA tested and the tester said 'Yep, it's perfect, no notes'. You are constantly fighting the camera. Actions are slow, dialogue is UNSKIPPABLE and repeats itself a lot, and although it has a long playtime (about 10hr at 40% complete as of this review- only fell asleep once) it is padded BIG TIME with slow, monotonous, repetitive dialogue, super slow animations, huge screens with nothing to look at and, for some strange reason, the background music reminds me of Xena! I do love Xena, but in this setting it doesn't make any sense. Dialogue choices are misleading and make no difference- I didn't expect them to change anything, but when I choose an angry response, I don't expect what Kate actually says to be whiny and annoying. Voice acting rarely matches the characters which really annoys me. I got this for cheap, just to finish the trilogy, but it has pretty much nothing to do with 1 & 2. I feel like Sokal just wanted to send a message, and after playing the Prologue for The World Before, that's probably right.

Compared to the height of the first two parts, that's really not comparable. However, the game developers have tried some good modern treatments, and although some players may not like it, I actually play it well. If you can accept: Strange perspective switching Some small bugs, big and small Occasional animation model loss and minor texture issues Our nomad's mobility is worrying. (Reminds me of the second season of the game "Walking Dead") Then you can go play and don't give up this sequel just because the rating is low.