Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut

I g ⃠t this game free f ⃠r summer sale stuff. The writing feels like a 12 year ⃠ld's fanfiction. There is c ⃠nstant unskippable n ⃠nsense animations, such as silent establishing sh ⃠ts with n ⃠ real value. The w ⃠rd c ⃠unt could EASILY be halved with ⃠ut l ⃠sing any pl ⃠t. There are c ⃠nstant rehashed explanati ⃠ns and exp ⃠siti ⃠ns t ⃠ different characters THAT ARE ALL THE PLAYER. Every character the PLAYER plays needs t ⃠ re-learn every thing (especially blatantly ⃠bvi ⃠us things). Part 5 thr ⃠ws in arbitrary techn ⃠babble (where they d ⃠n't settle f ⃠r 'it's magic' and 'nobody knows') that when they realize they needed an ending. A few characters are interesting and well written. M ⃠st are awful. S ⃠me ⃠f them (big bads) are basically named extras with l ⃠ng unskippable scenes and rehashed redundant dial ⃠gue. At least ⃠ne character is named ⃠NLY by the UI (bef ⃠re being met) and p ⃠ssibly never again? Pros: The voice acting is pretty good throughout, the areas are really interesting and are reused well. Runs better than some Telltale stories. Cons: Middle school pad-the-word-count forget-perspective-midway-through. The most difficult Choice is to continue playing. ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ ⃠ Do not buy.

I must say, that it is a good thing this is a season pass. This game is short. By short I mean, two hours at tops. Yes, there is a lot of replay value, but please read what I have to say. I thoroughly enjoyed the previous two games of this saga. The second, though burdened by terrible controls and glitches, was my favorite. However, this game fails to follow through with any wonder; it fails to invoke any curiosity in the player. What is good? Sound. The sound in this game is absolutely amazing. The music and the voice-overs are beautiful. The story? It's okay. It's nothing spectacular. I found more enjoyment listening to the quips of each character than I did in the story (the knock knock joke was great). What is bad? Well, lets just say there is a LOT. The controls in this game are terrible. I could not find a way to change keybinds. Google resulted in a forum post by the devs that if you want to change keybinds you have to make registry changes. So, I tried my controller. Nope, same problem. Not all of the buttons function. No matter what I do, I cannot get my journal to open (among other necessary functions). Save? Save and exit features only (is this 1999?). Furthermore, the game offers no explanation for controls at all. The little option wheel? No explanations. You basically have to click every single button for every puzzle. Worse is sometimes items just disappear from your inventory. This game is a fine example of illogical puzzles in an adventure game. No puzzles make any sense, especially puzzles that involve using your "skills." After using the skills, you can see how they MIGHT be logical. However, before use, there is no way of knowing what each skill will do to an object. The mindreading skill? Can't use that on inanimate objects, yet at one point you can read a lightbulb. Each skill produces different effects and you never know which will do what. This game is a terrible adventure game. It's a good story, but a terrible game.

This game was a HUGE disappointment. It ruins the previous two games completely and the end is very unfulfilling. The writer ruins the previously whimsical feel of the story by cramming in modern politics and forced diversity. It all feels very out of place if you played the games back to back. This game aims to be more mature and so on, but it just seems like lame 90's teen angst more than anything. Also the constant use of swear words just makes the writing seem childish. Very bad 0/10. You are better off just playing the first two games. I'm sad we could not get a satisfying end to the story that started so long ago :/

My playtime - 36 hours 17 minutes 6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story great gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut score is 4 of 5.

I've been a TLR fan ever since the first one came out 1999. I played that version with Swedish language over and over and over again. Then Dreamfall came out and I got a little bit scared I would not like it because i wanted to keep playing it in the swedish language, but I forgot about that quite fast and while playing Dreamfall (2006) I got to tears and the feeling was totally perfect. The puzzles was not that hard though, it was more like watching a movie, but a very good interactive movie. Once it was over I just wanted more. It was so many question marks in my head so I started googling for next episode, if there were ever going to be one. I read quite early that there was supposed to be a Dreamfall Chapters, but they stopped working on that and the project was put aside or something - don't really remember. Then thanks to kickstarter this was possible and I thank the gods for that! This game was more like an interactive movie as well, but I was still satisfied with the gameplay. If it would be too many puzzles and too many "go and look for something somewhere for a couple of hours and then look for the next thing a couple of hours and test everything with everything", then It would take ages to complete this. I think it was extremely cool to choose your own paths in the game which gives consequences for the rest of the game. Makes me want to play this over and over again. I'm a retro gamer, but this was one of the few newer games that I choose to play, and there is still hope. The magic was still in there! Wow, an extremely well made triquel to a fantastic game. It must be hard to come 18 years later and try to make a good continuation of a game, but they really succeeded. PLEASE! DO NOT MAKE ANOTHER ONE! JUST STOP HERE! KEEP THE FANS SATISFIED WITH THIS AS IT IS!