If you played the first 3 games and are expecting to solve puzzles, and explore a weird steampunkish world like the others in this series this game is a little disappointing. The graphics are great, the point and click interface works fairly well. The audio is well done. There are few puzzles and what few there are either make little sense, or could be completed by anyone with the ability to tie their shoes. The story is interesting, but you are steered into the narrative on rails most of your dialog choices are nonexistent, you just click on your part of the conversation. Lastly it is clearly a recently produced title, they were sure to let you know early in the game that racism, fascism, and other isms are a bad thing, and they will remind pretty often. Expect token representation of other important modern issues as well even if it doesn’t really fit the past narrative, or characters. I’m not for any of the isms I mentioned, and I agree that they are bad, but it was a little heavy handed. If I were reviewing this as a stand alone game/story I would rate it at 4 stars, as a sequel to syberia I think they missed the mark.
