Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut

I loved the previous games but this is so different from those and i just cant like this game as much as the others. the previous games were filled with exiting new worlds and the story was very refreshing while dreamfall chapters is more about running some left wing politics while arguing with the main characters boyfriend about what food to eat. its like the game is turning a bit into the sims. sure there are some good aspects of the game but overall its lacking so much of what made the previous games so good. Furthermore you need a better PC than what graphics of this level should require, the game does not feel very well optimized.

You will NOT be able to finish this gahme because of the incredible amount of bugs. I tried many times but the game always crashes or stops responding in different places each time preventing you from continuing.

It has a great story to it, worthy of the first two games. The graphics, and world detail are on par with the best adventures and easily that of the first two. Chapter 1 is very well polished, and was a great start to the game that would make any fan of the series believe all was right with the game world, with only a few continuity errors to mar the experience. The problems arise as they release successive chapters. Later chapters are nowhere near as polished, with glitches and performance problems that make the game chug even on a system that meets the "recommended" specs and with all settings turned down to minimal. The performance hit is particularly noticeable in the large, outside city levels which are major components of chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 1 had smaller locations and fewer, but equally detailed world elements in those locations with a more linear narrative. Chapters 2 and 3 have large city hub locations, and chapter 3 even tries to be less linear and guided than the previous ones. That ambition in design is admirable, but it seems that they either released the chapters without much optimization, or they didn't do as good a job at designing the levels to hide the engine's limitations as they did in chapter 1.

I got the occasion to get the game free in 2016 during a gog sale and since i always remember with pleasure the series, i grab the occasion. At the time, only 4 books were released, i wasn't aware of kickstarter situation (let's be honest, RTG has done the same marketing and development mistakes with the previous games) and i didn't have the hardware to play it and "close the circle" started in 1999 with TLJ, a milestone born in the swansong age of adventure games. On late 2020 DC comes out from backlog Don't do my mistake, play or watch the first two games, expecially if you played a long time ago like me. Even if you got a prologue with summarize at big lines where we left and despite the presence of different sections aimed at introducing characters and situations to newcomers to the series, the feeling is that the new work by Ragnar Tørnquist is nothing more than a continue quotation from past adventures based on a complex narrative background (expecially in the big rush at book 5) DC is more an interactive film, where at some point there'll be some important decision wich affects the first 3 books and partially the last 2. Those decision should be the core of replaybility, but i wasn't caught for a second run. Puzzles and interaction are simplistic and during first 3 books it'll be go from A to B and do the task. The game music is absolutely valuable and inspired, even if only in a few decisive cases they manage to affect and rise from a simple appreciable accompaniment Graphic wise is pleasant, focusing more on dialogues animation (even if sync lip is not always perfect), but after book 3, i got bored during book 4 (a comprehensive compendium of clichés), get caught again at the end and became bittersweet with the big rush of book 5, wich let me unsatified under some aspect wich looks fundamental until book 3/4 but they don't have any explaination at the end (the midiclorian effect) and they were maybe saved for the nevercome The Longest Journey Home

Pros: - great visual style - 3d Arcadia! Yay! - 5th book actually has few cool moments Cons: - no interesting characters - awful animations. And it is a huge lack - boring gameplay. Even in culiminating moments you won't feel any tension. I don't hate interactive movie genre, but this game is bad even for it. I finished it only because I in love with first two games.