Europolis is a futuristic cyberpunkish Prague, Marcuria fairy tale-like medieval town.
I enjoyed exploring them, seeing how they change with time and passing chapters. Europolis and Marcuria, both more beautiful and bigger than ever. The location design and their contrast, beautiful. I assume the slower start was done on purpose to ease newcomers into the universe, which is understandable. Few unanswered questions still remain, but I don't mind that. And then in book four the stakes get raised, Chapters switch into high gear and it is one big revelation after another, right into the beautiful melancholic ending. But even there, I already hugely enjoyed Chapters, thanks to its atmosphere and enjoyable characters and dialogue (Sully, Mirra, Queenie.). Nothing much from the unresolved plotlines is being dealt with, instead it is all about Prague-European-Arcadian politics and corruption. The first two, three books almost feel like they are not even sequels to Dreamfall. The writing, characters, dialogues, story.Ĭhapters start out.strangely. Why would I give Dreamfall Chapters 9/10. But given the genre of the game and its beautiful graphics, I wasn't too bothered. In certain scenes my framerate dropped to fourties. The locations are so big that sometimes searching for solution was like searching for a needle in a haystack. But I had to resort to guide a couple times, because I felt like the puzzle just wasted my time. Puzzles were, once again, a bit too vague and obscure. But I understand this was an indie game made on shoestring budget, and it already looks and sounds mostly incredible, so I can't complain too much here. She is voiced by someone else, but I got used to it after a while, and in the end I liked her even more than in Dreamfall. And I went through a bit of a shellshock when hearing Zoe for the first time.
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The fact that it is the same one who voiced Vernon Roche in Witcher series didn't help matters. One in particular stood out for being used for too many incidental NPCs. But there is a bit of issue with voice actor reusage. Voice acting is, on the whole, fantastic. And all that would be needed to fix this is change the color of cursor prompts to grey or something. So I often had to hear repeated lines.which breaks immersion a bit. The problem is, many of them have multiple lines, but the game does not inform when the lines are exhausted.
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The world is full of interactive objects and people that Zoe and Kian can comment on with their internal monologue. What annoyed me the most was one interface related issue. But first, let's get the nitpicks out of the way. And of course, waiting for the full game to be released before starting it - also a good idea. But it was a good idea to finish the first two beforehand, the story impact is much stronger thanks to it. I am glad they went to Kickstarter though, because I found this Dreamfall most enjoyable of the three games. I have no idea how Red Thread managed to create such extensive (28 hours), almost triple A production on such low budget and small team (although yes, they took some time). I spent last month playing through (first time) TLJ, Dreamfall and Chapters. Not present in any GOTY lists, many outlets didn't even bother reviewing it. I just finished Chapters and feel like it has been completely overlooked this year.
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