Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut

I was a backer on this game and can’t believe how much of a massive letdown this was. The game goes out of its way to take everything you loved about the first two entries in the series and scraps them right out of the gate. There’s no heart or soul to this game and instead you get long winded politics and a really bad euro sitcom. I got about through the second or third chapter and just gave up.

I just want to start by saying that if dreamfall chapters was advertised as an interactive movie I would have given it a 5. But it's not. It's advertised as an action adventure, or even a quest style adventure, which it is not. The world bast popsicle makes a great popsicle, but if you get it when you order cake you are likely to get upset. It's terrible as a cake, it Gots no dough of frosting, and it fills even worse since you were clearly decived. The good things about the game are as follows: The worst parts of dreamfall, combat and stealth, have been removed (these were only there to try and attract console audience, with no success). The bast parts of dreamfall, acting, charecters, story and world building, have been improves upon. Graphics has finally become what it should have been - many people praised dreamfall about its graphics, but that was just advertising hype. It had a good graphics angine, but no artists or budget to use it. In the end, 80% of the game had bland, empty enviorments. Based on book 1, Dreamfall Chapters seems to have fixed this. The bad things about the game are as follows: Puzzles are still at kindergarden level. The sad part is that puzzles were one of the things the game was advertised for. "In here, Zoe needed to enter this building or something, and she needes to get around the security robot" is what I recall from a game update. This was suppose to be a common thing - it is not. The game is still 95% walking and talking. Book 1 had only one multiple solution puzzle, which everyone solves immidietly through the talking option. It had 1 mediam difficulty puzzle (the torch + oil one), one easy plus puzzle (wordrobe) and like 10 obvios ones. Thats it. To replace puzzles, they added "walking dead" style "Choices". I hope these will turn out to be a saving grace, but I have seen choices like these before. Except in Witcher 2, did any choice in any game seemed to matter enough in retrospact? No. I'm bracing for disappointment.

I tried 3 times this year to re-install and add patches...it is simply a mess, every other game on GOG has run without complications, I'm done with this. Would rather replay LJ1 and LJ2 again anyway...

Seems like there are two different types of gamers out there - Those who are rightly hard to impress because they expect every box to be checked, and there's the hardcore adventure gamers who can give 16 bit games 5 stars because not every technical box needs to be checked. For the adventure gamers out there hardcore or otherwise, who just want to experience a cool atmospheric adventure game in a cool futuristic setting, this game is great. I would recommend playing at least Dreamfall first before playing this game since this is a direct sequel. As an occasional adventure gamer, I think the game is fun.

Great visuals, and a really great story, but not much gameplay wise (just like Dreamfall). It's basically a glorified walking simulator. And hey, that's fine. I was here for the conclusion of TLJ and Dreamfall, and the game does answer a few questions (and also adds a few more). But I still miss the puzzles from the first game. There is obviously a lot invested in this world (or worlds?), it's unique, and wonderfully weird. I just hope we get another game.