In each installment, Walker travels to various fictional locations in continental Europe and former Soviet states during the 2000s, where she encounters fantastical creatures as well as highly advanced automatons powered by intricate clockwork mechanisms. The central focus of the franchise, beginning with the eponymous 2002 video game, follows the experiences of Kate Walker, an American adventurer who originally worked as a lawyer in a prominent New York City law firm.
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Set within an alternate universe designed by Sokal and introduced in the 1999 video game Amerzone, the series is currently developed and published by French video game company Microids. It’s just a shame that the original game’s issues are still present along with some new ones.Syberia is a franchise of graphic adventure games created by Belgian comic artist and video game developer Benoît Sokal.
There’s a little more depth to what’s going on and the story allows for more surprises than the original. Syberia 2 is less of a sequel and more of a new chapter in the same story. The need to revisit characters and talk to them means you’re constantly checking in on each person you pass, just in case they suddenly have something new to say.
The scripting is slightly off and it’s jarring when you’re playing. Weirdly, some puzzles can’t be solved until you’ve spoken to specific characters, whereas in other instances you find Kate asking about things that you’re unaware of and shouldn’t know. I just want to enjoy the story and puzzles, alright? Go to one end of a location, talk to the person who says the person you just spoke to has the thing you need, so go and walk all the way back and talk to the other person. The larger areas bring more puzzles to the game but then suffer from the frustration of the constant journeying the original game suffered from. Unfortunately, the game remains almost identical with new artwork. You see, when a sequel to a game is released you expect two things: improvements to the game and dropping things that don’t work so well. This compounds one of my chief complaints with Syberia 2. The changing camera angles do start to get confusing in some of the more expansive areas though. Visually, the art and locations are of a similarly high standard to those in Syberia. There are also the ones where you’re faced with an unfamiliar machine and need to work out how it works. There are still a lot of “go and find the key to start the machine or open the door” type puzzles which are a bit of a chore. The puzzle-solving hasn’t changed drastically in this iteration. Among the banal phone calls that plagued the original there was some heart in there and you may feel cold towards these people without the background. If you are considering jumping straight into this I would recommend that you play the original first because you may feel a little more invested in the consequences of Kate Walker’s actions and the fate of her travel companions from the previous game. Syberia 2 picks up exactly where Syberia left off. Veterans can start the game with a fair idea of what’s going on and be able to jump straight in without a problem. The style of game, voice acting, art direction and inventory system is identical. I’d even go as far to say that if you want my opinion of this game, go and read my Syberia review. As with the original, the Nintendo Switch version is a re-release of the original game, bringing the same game engine and mechanics as the original with it. To a degree, Syberia 2 is guilty of this criticism for a variety of reasons. What was a shining example of gaming on home computers has gradually turned into a fringe genre that some feel fails to push the boundaries of what puzzle adventures could become. Point and click adventure games tend to get a bit of a bad reputation nowadays.
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