From what I have played so far, the game ist a great interactive experience with fantastic (often slightly flawed or conflicted) characters. The voice acting is brilliant and the music perfectly fits the mood in almost any situation. Very early on you are making decisions that will have consequences throughout the game and the upcomming chapters, mostly in the form of the dialogue system. When you have to pick something to say, the dialogue options hover around your character in the form of one or two words that indicate the kind of things you are about to say. When moving the mouse over one of these options however you hear the characters thoughts that might lead to saying what he or she is about to say if you pick this option. This gives you a lot of insight into the characters, their motivations, feelings, etc. and on top of that a way to directly influence them. Observing the environment works in a similar fashion. When standing far away you can make your character look at things and listen to their thoughts on the person or object you clicked. If you get closer you get the different options to interact. All of these options have voiced text that goes along with them and often different lines when clicked multiple times. The love and care that went into making this game just oozes out of every detail, every note in the score, every spoken line and every part of the story. However, where there is light, there is also shadow and the shadows in this game are a lot of technical issues (which will most likely be fixed over the next few days/weeks) and the "Telltale syndrome". What is that you ask? Well as others have mentioned, telltale had a huge success with the walking dead, but the gameplay boiled down to a series of interactive events playing out in a very small area. It is not as bad in Dreamfall, but you will hardly find a puzzle that has you thinking for even a few seconds… Since this is the first chapter though, there is still room for improvement.
