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Review of Syberia by btague

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Rating by btague posted on Jan 13, 2013 | edit | delete


Did Everyone Even Play The Same Game?


First off, I have to say I am an avid adventure game fan. Been playing adventure games for years and always been a huge fan of the genre. I have played through so many countless adventures through the years. I have played through some memorable and some not so memorable games. This one falls in the later. I know this game gets all sorts of praise and is in the top 10 for a lot of adventure game sites, but I don’t know why it deserves that. This game is void of many of the elements that adventure gamers like most and why we are fans of the genre in the story and the character development.

First I do want to say the good about this game: It is very asthetically pleasing. It is so gorgeous and pretty to look at. It has great graphics and a simple point and click which any adventure gamer likes in a game.

After that, there isn’t as much praise to be had as all the reviewers of this game would have you believe. I have played through the game and am astounded as to why this game ranks so highly. I tried playing it multiple times, before finally deciding to fully play it through from beginning to end and give it a chance as I do every adventure game. I decided that maybe this game would pick up and get better as it goes along.

First off the game starts off real slow. You arrive at Vallendiline and you stay at a hotel. You are trying to get the owner of a factory of toy robots to sign the company over to you. The owner died, but appearantly there is a missing heir. You, Kate Walker, set out to find this missing heir to sign the factory over to you as a lawyer who represents your toy company. The heir is out of town though, in search of mammoths which he believes still exist. Your quest is to find him and along the way refuel your train through mechanical gears from these automan robots and learn more about Hans and his sister, Anna along the way. That is about the only depth of the plot. I thought there would be something secretive and extra, but that’s it. All you are trying to do is sign the toy company over, but you become interested in Hans who ran away. That is the whole storyline. No character development at all. They tried to with this awkward phone conversation thing, but it actually made it worse. The storyline isn’t really any substance at all and no character development. Not hardly any puzzles in this game either except for clicking on the screen and running from point A to point B a ton in this one.

All in all I don’t rate this as the worst adventure game I’ve ever played, but nowhere among one of the top ones. The story and character development really fall flat. I couldn’t connect with anyone and the dialogue wasn’t great either. I give it a 1.5, due to the great graphics and on the premise that this wasn’t totally god awful (I could play through the whole thing). I just don’t know why this game is considered a top 10 or even a top 50 adventure game. Would maybe make top 100, but not sure it deserves the praise it does. Going to play the second Syberia and see if you really have to play that one for this to be good, but it looks like this one is just very hyped up and not as good as some would have you believe.


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Time Played: 5-10 hours

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