The story and the controls are ok. It's not a bad game but commit typical sins of 90's point&clicks. There are a lot of thing just can be figured out by try and error. There are some guessing and pixel hunting. If you miss an key item you need to re-explore every single location you have access.
From now on, I will call TB to "The Breakthrough" and HNE to "Harvey's New Eyes". This are the first 2 games from Deadalic I truly liked. I played before "The Whispered World" and "A New Beginning". I'm saving Deponia(I,II) for later. Both games still have some bugs after the Q3-2013 patch. I advice you a little research at GOG.com forums before buy. TB was one of the first games of Daedalic and you can see it for example in the controls. The controls are just good enough at TB, at HNE are better. HNE is a more polished work in general. Both games are dark and funny, being TB funnier and HNE darkest. Something I like you know before hand is Edna and Harvey are playable characters in TB and no-playable characters in HNE. The playable character in HNE is Lili. At fist glance, Lili is just a sweet, lonley girl. Through the game you will have the chance to know her deeply.
As other reviews stated, is too based on luck. In this sense, its remembers me "Faster than light" with a different subject, and no action. To make it clear, I enjoyed FTL much more than LLtQ. To survive certain events, you need to train her's skills several turns beforehand, and the game gives you no clue which one until it kills you. Then its become a die&load festival.
I enjoyed the gameplay, the puzzles and the graphics. I have tolerated the ecologist preaching. And finally, I have suffered the cheesy story and the soap opera dialogues.
Great story. Great controls. No pixel hunting. All puzzel where logical, no guessing, no good luck. And I mean it, every single one of them.
I loved the story and I like gameplay. It feels a little like "Beneath a steel sky" It is short (12 hs).
It's just a good game,but it's not in the same league TLJ is. The story is OK but ends in a cliffhanger. I thing cliffhangers are cheesy. I also think combat and sealth could be left ouy of this game.
The game is free, so the question is: It worth your time? I say yes. I like its humor and I don't mind the old grapics. There are times where the games should give you clues and it doesn't. That's my only claim.
Syberia I & II should be one game. I'm wrinting this 'cos both games feel the same to me. I'd loved both. Great story telling, beatiful graphics, simple interfase and almost none pixel hunting. The only thing that bothers me in these games is the time spend in traveling through screens.
It's a great adventure. I don't know why it has mixed reviews. PROs: Beatiful graphics. Original and interestings story. The puzzles makes sense. No pixel hunting at all! CONs: Traveling from screen to screen could be a little slow and boring when you get stuck with a puzzle.
