12/30/2023 0 Comments Syberia 3 review![]() What Makes a Good Adventure Game?Īccording to famed adventure game auteur Ron Gilbert in an excellent article he wrote all the way back in 1989, which I’ll link below, the following are the most important features of good adventure game design: You’re just aimlessly wandering, hoping to find the next piece of a puzzle you haven’t even found yet. It’s those little incidental details that flesh out a game world, providing background and context – and it’s these things that are completely lacking in Syberia 3. You’ve got a never-ending laundry list of things to do – you tick one thing off and it’s straight onto the next.Įlements in the game world – characters and objects – are either essential to advance or a complete waste of time. The problems don’t end there – also ripped wholesale from the previous games is the outdated gameplay. Sharon Mann reprises her role as Kate Walker from the previous games, although here her voice sounds a little too old for the twenty-nine-year-old heroine.Īlthough Kate sounds a lot better than many of the other characters – almost all the characters we meet are supposed to be European, yet only some characters have European accents – the rest have this weird American accent that just sounds off. On the other hand, voicework is not great – it’s too stilted and often sounds unnatural. It reworks tracks from previous Syberia games into something that sounds new and fresh. Syberia 3’s soundtrack, composed by Inon Zur, is actually quite beautiful. Don’t expect miracles though – it doesn’t hold aĬandle to the best-looking Switch games. Mode the game looks better – the smaller screen and lower native resolution help These enhancements bring Syberia 3 more in line visually with modern games and also help the game to look stylistically closer to its predecessors – so it’s a shame they’re missing on the Switch. Switch’s docked mode at least, things just don’t hold up. ![]() Step back – Syberia I and II looked great in their time but Syberia 3 is years behind today’s heavy hitters. Well visually the game actually feels like a Syberia II was a worthy successor and almost as good only let down by slightly less memorable locations and some pacing issues – the Monastery and the Youkol Village were memorable for all the wrong reasons!Īnd now we have the latest game – it’s been thirteen years since Syberia II hit store shelves, so what’s changed? Visually Appealing I really enjoyed the original Syberia – it was a charming, offbeat adventure in a world full of clockwork Automatons and living mammoths that felt like it had been dreamt up in a child’s imagination. This is The Subtext and I’m Dan – join me on a journey full of ups and downs as we talk about the Nintendo Switch version of Syberia 3. Traveler with no destination” – that’s the insightful piece of wisdom aĬharacter shares with series protagonist Kate Walker near the end of Syberia 3,Īnd sadly it’s a sentiment that couldn’t be more accurate to this game but also,
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