A New Beginning: Final Cut

It's Deadalic, so you get your solid point & click gameplay, polished 2d graphics and animation and apropriate sound design. But the writing is what makes a point & click game good or bad, and man it's bad. This must be a german thing, because for some reason they don't understand nuclear energy and regard it as some kind of evil black magic that's the root of all ecological problems on earth. No questions asked, no research made. Neither coal nor oil are the main culprit of co2 emissions, spooky rays that have been pretty much omnipresent since the big bang are and have to be stopped. It's infuriatingly misguided and plain stupid. Add on top a preachy yet naive main character, that walks like a stuck up duck across the screen, and you have an adventure game that simply annoys you from start to finish. Especially since the message it tries to deliver and preach about makes in this case no sense whatsoever. Oh, and apparently a puff of exhaust smoke is enough to isntantly kill a bird outdoors. Aparently that wasn't a big enough hint for our protagonist about the real problem. If you have no idea (or care) about climate, physics or any natural sciences, then you'll maybe enjoy this game. But if you have some casual knowledge about those topics, you'll be shouting at the screen in frustration, wondering what the writers were (or weren't) thinking about when they came up with this absolute failure in writing that wouldn't even pass a high school science class...

I was surprised when i noticed that this is an indie title; it doesn't show (in a good way). The graphics are gorgeous, voice-acting good, I never encountered any game-breaking bugs and the game is solid quality-wise. To sum it up, this is a quality production. Yes, there are some minor bugs, but they didn't detract from the experience for me. The puzzles are often on the easy side, but that is quite OK. There are a few harder ones as well. So why only 3 stars? I basically have 2 gripes with the game. Firstly, it seems that you spend too much time watching animations an cutscenes. When experimenting with the puzzles I often found myself clicking and then having to wait 10s for an animation where the game character walked across the screen and attempted an action. A speed setting where you could increase the animation speed would have been much appreciated. Secondly, the story i very environmentalist to the point where it gets a bit preachy. I found it a bit offputting, but that's my personal preference. If you're into Greta Thunberg and climate alarmism, this is made for you. For me, it's a solid point-and-click that is definitely worth the time playing but nothing to get too excited about.

This game has all the hallmarks of a Daedalic adventure game. Fantastic artwork and music, interesting and original setting, average puzzle design and absolutely horrendous transtation and voice work. It never seizes to amaze me how terrible the translation of Daedelic games are. It's as if it's just passed through google translate, and the english voice work is just bafflingly bad. Occasionally the voice over is quite nice albeit a bit stale, but as soon as two characters are interacting it's like listening to two robots. I refuse to believe there was any direction involved. This sounds like the actors were just fed one line after the other and just spoke them back. No human interacts like this. The broken english makes it even more difficult to enjoy. It really ruins the whole experience for me. Turning off voices is possible, and I strongly recommend doing so. With voices off it's quite an enjoyable adventure game, if you can get past the terrible translation.

The idea is good, most puzzles as well but the game is technically not very good and it has a couple of game breaking bugs. The save system stops working towards the end of the game and with that done all you can do when a character gets stuck on screen is go way way back and try again.

The story and graphics are good but the game contains several bugs and voice acting is poor. Some puzzles are illogical or hard to solve just because there is no clue on how to solve them. I would recommend this game only if you can get a big purchase discount.