I think it was an improvement compared to Syberia 2, it all felt more natural and better written to me, and still kept it’s fairytale vibes. Regarding the storytelling and character writing But still, it was a bumper to the fun I had. I can totally forgive these things since I have the strong feeling this game didn’t have much budget at all. It wasn’t fun to “break the ice” in one puzzle…. I also really did like the idea of all the mechanical puzzles in which the player has to control parts of a larger machine, be it to make a stamp on a document, or to make a new key and so on.īut oh boy, all this fun gets seriously sabotaged by the rough, non-precise and wonky controls. I still had to think, but never did it feel like pixelhunting.

The gameplay……I think the devs definitely did learn what many adventures back in the 2000s didn’t do very well, and designed the puzzles and what you have to do in a way that they feel very intuitive, without being dumbed down.

The graphics are also dated for a game from 2017, but that doesn’t really bother me since I never really put much emphasis on graphics AND the art direction is nonetheless just incredibly beautiful. It was a very rough experience in terms of storytelling and gameplay controls. There’s a really big but attached to this statement.

Syberia 3 sortie