There have been a few adventure games popping up of late that try to recreate the fun of those classic games, some succeed (Paradigm is a great example of this) some fail. Then first person shooters came and changed the landscape, other games came and took their slice of the pie too. Lucasarts and Sierra put out real gems of the genre. There’s something really cool under there somewhere, but it really needed more time in development.Adventure games used to be the bread and butter of gaming. The puzzles are just as intriguing as previous games, which almost saves the game. On a positive note, the Syberia 3 score is beautiful, and the concept art was incredible. The only option given is to replay the game, but why replay it and sit through long discussions you’ve already participated in? Sometimes, I wanted to simply read the captions and move ahead, and my patience was heavily tested here.
SYBERIA 3 REVIEW MANUAL
With no manual save points, there’s no built-in way to revert back to a previous save and snag a missed achievement. Some of the Steam achievements are gained by simply playing through the game, but others are easily missed.
My inability to skip ahead in dialogue exchanges would discourage me from playing through the game a second or third time. If I can’t speed them along with what they have to say, they shouldn’t be able to bully me into talking faster. “I’m beginning to lose my patience,” one doctor would scold me, if I spent one moment too long trying to decide the best response. However, when it was my turn to speak, if I didn’t choose a dialogue option soon enough, the person I was speaking to would get upset. Instead, I had to wait until a character was completely finished speaking before given the option to move on. I could read the written text and click to the next option when I was done, but this wasn’t available. I would have appreciated an option to bypass the spoken dialogue completely. Many of the voices didn’t seem to belong to the bodies they inhabited, and it was a constant reminder that pulled me out of the game. She expresses surprise that a person so young could lead a group of people, but his voice sounds like that of a grown man. Within the first few minutes of starting the game, Kate meets the young leader of the nomadic Youkol tribe. The story felt as though it meant to teach me real life lessons, but immersiveness was lost on poor voice casting in the English-dubbed version. It’s another enjoyable Kate Walker story, complete with new friends, old companions, and compelling character development.
The 3D graphics felt outdated, which may have worked fine if the nostalgia of point-and-click had remained, but with the attempted advancement of controls, the graphics needed to follow suit. I couldn’t put my finger on what was amiss until I realized that her head and neck remained absolutely still while she walked around the room. Instead, Kate moved around with me as I searched for the next clue. This was a risky move for a game relying on the nostalgia of the previous games to catapult it forward.
The next thing I noticed was that point-and-click mechanic was gone.
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