Posted on: May 20, 2011

Pat9496

Gry: 729 Opinie: 21

A masterpiece? Not in my opinion!

A lot of people consider Syberia a masterpiece. Probably because it was released during a time when there were relatively few adventures. But let me tell you, the visual style and general atmosphere of the game are, indeed, quite well done. The story as well deserves to be called interesting. But as game, Syberia just doesn't work in my opinion. First, let me tell you that Syberia tried to fusion Myst-style eerie worlds and wondrous exploration with traditional 3rd-person adventuring, inventory based puzzles and conversations. In the end, however, the game failed to really score in both departments. The wonderful world is almost completely devoid of hotspots. This works in Myst or Riven because you play yourself and have to piece everything together without outside help. In a 3rd-person-adventure, where you play another character, this is just lazy. There were so many things I wanted to look at or even use but it's just background. The game also suffers from some rather boring puzzle design and tedious long walks back and forth through empty (though pretty) backgrounds - and no way to skip them. At least, the English voice-overs are not as bad as the horrible German ones and actually quite nicely done. Do I recommend this game? Somewhat. The story and atmosphere are really well done and, well, it's certainly worth five dollars if you like adventure games.

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Posted on: December 22, 2014

gog-Fusha

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Gry: 221 Opinie: 6

Not particularly good gameplay-wise

It might be pretty and beautiful and atmospheric and set in a very curious settings with fun characters with good voice acting, but gameplay-wise it's not a very good game at all. The logic is sometimes ridiculous and the story itself is pretty bad here and there, making the game not immersive at all. Still, it is worth its money on GOG, so get if you are a massive fan of the genre. If you're just looking for great adventure games, there are many better choices.

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Posted on: August 11, 2013

maxadoj

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Gry: 279 Opinie: 1

Nice adventure.. BUT

It's nice, but it is too much "railroad" sometimes. You want to ask about something, and you don't have that option, you have to random stuff first. I mean you have to follow the "railroad", even if u know what you wanna ask.

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Posted on: March 5, 2017

balalaikamedved

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Gry: 24 Opinie: 1

Cant play properly on modern system

If you want have some good time, pass by

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Posted on: May 24, 2018

Zyxxaecko

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Gry: 311 Opinie: 18

Good adventure, but a bad game

There are good Adventure games, and there are bad Adventure games, this, in my opinion, is a bad adventure game. First off, let me just say that the story and visuals for Syberia are great, love em. Dialogue is also entertaining, if sometimes nonsensical when you do dialogue choices in a certain order and the structuring of the conversation is designed for a completely different order of dialogue choices. However, this game does what I hate most about its genre, it makes playing the actually game part of this game a boring chore. Firstly, movement and actions are incredibly slow, making moving long distances, and even short treks from one side of the screen to the other quite the drag over time. It gets especially bad when you have to climb stairs of any kind, or perform repeated actions that just grind the pacing like the emergency break is stuck on. It wasn’t bad when I started, but after a while, it starts wearing on me, then it began to annoy me. Secondly, there’s a lot of hollow intractables, intractable items and doors that really don’t do anything. Nothing much to say about it, just like the items themselves. What makes them a problem is that they can be annoyingly confusing, as in adventure games, you’ll be looking for something to interact with to progress, and these pointless intractable things just waste time and focus. It becomes worse when the dialogue of these pointless interactables makes them out to be important, such as in one situation where when interacting with a door that doesn’t open, it says that you need to get in there. Finally, and primarily, the puzzles in the game are just tedious. They lack much puzzling challenge, but what Syberia lacks in frustrating puzzle design like its peers have, it makes up for it in it puzzles challenging your patience. Typical fetch questing that mostly involves walking around and finding objects to use on other objects, gameplay which is made worse by the afore mention crap movement. Once you have all the pieces in play, it’s not too hard to figure out what to do. However, what can be hard is finding all the pieces of the puzzle. Syberia has the hidden object situation, except you can have no clue what you’re looking for, what it looks like, or why you even need it. One early game puzzle is constructing a pair of hands and legs for an automaton, and that’s really all it tells you. Sure you’re also told the model number’s for the parts, but that information is about as useful as a third leg on you head. Thing is, the controls to build the appendages don’t specify what you’re building apart from an arbitrary wood type, which itself is only indicated by color. So all you can do is guess and test until you luck upon the right color of wood, a process which is made ridiculous by the repeated backtracking you have to do back to the automaton, saying, “Is this right? Is this right? Is this right?”, again until you finally get it right. The game has a good story, one I’d really like to experience, but even if I just walkthroughed my way through the game, I still couldn’t get over the molasses speed of it all, and the plain boringness of the gameplay.

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