It was kind of a mixed bag for me. While I enjoyed it (actually more than the first one, personally) it had its downsides. The visuals were most impressive, immensely helping building a mystical atmosphere, together with the awesome musics Inon Zur created as expected. While I never understood what made Kate so hellbent on realizing Hans's dream, the story was interesting enough for me. I really wanted to arrive at Syberia, if only to see how it looked. I didn't like some of the puzzles though. They were too focused on trial and error and some mechanisms seemed to have no sensible logic behind them. I.e the horse puzzle, and that puzzle in the plane? Randomly pressing buttons and wishing it works. At least it did give the sense of a layman trying to figure out something, after all it makes sense for Kate to randomly press buttons since she has no idea as well. Other parts of the same puzzle and some other puzzles do force you to think though so it wasn't all bad. Other trivial cons: Lack of feedback from the characters. Kate doesn't comment on the weird things happening most of the time. Some hotspots blend in the environment badly, in some I understood what the solution was but just couldn't find the area to click on. Finally Hans really got on my nerves, the guy knows most of the solutions but the only thing he adds is "you can figure it out". Yeah thanks for nothing. Just sit there while I do all the work. Anyway, overall I enjoyed the game. If you like adventures you probably will too. 3.5 rounded up to 4.
