Syberia 3

AWFUL game. I'm determined to get through it because I loved the first two games and I wanna play The World before. But the entire experience is rage inducing. The controls are the worst I've ever come across. It's based on camera perspective, which shift frequently and erratically, so you might end up running right back into the area you came from. Not only that, but for some reason, sometimes turning is like turning a super tanker. It's like the control input has to run through mud before being interpreted by the game. And not only that, but sometimes the camera will just... drift, like it's being controlled by someone with raging unmedicated ADHD who just saw a squirrel in the opposite direction if where you're running. As if the controls weren't bad enough, the voice acting is terrible, the story is so boring and the character design is just drab. Oh, and did I mention the bugs? I managed to soft lock the game because I clicked too fast on a thing after having already clicked on it. Game-breaking stuff, as we all know. I saw a video where someone managed to soft lock the game before even getting out of the main menu. "But so what?" you say. "You can always just reload." You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. Because apparently manual saving was too hard of a nut for the dev team to crack, so there's only autosaving. "Well, then it must at least be frequent, right?" Again, you'd think so, but no. The very thing that prompted me to leave this review before even finishing the game was realizing that the interactive spots have stopped working unless I'm moving, but that moving cancels the click, but when I go to load, I REALIZE THAT IT HASN'T SAVED SINCE BEFORE THE LAST BIG CUTSCENE. We got to a new area and everything, Major plot movement. But save? Naahhhhhhhhh. That's for wimps. Seriously. Don't play this game. You need to have copious amounts of patience and nostalgia for the first games and if you have anything resembling high blood pressure, I suggest you write a will and say goodbye to your loved ones. Play something more relaxing instead, like Cuphead or Dark Souls.

This review is not for the game, but rather for the state it's in. As of now, my whole 80 minutes of the experience was trying to solve a bug, that didn't allow me to complete pretty much the very first action of the game - open a door. Apparently it is a very widespread bug, where the interactive "spots" simply disappear, which makes progressing impossible. After tinkering with the game for some time, reading a bunch of forums and simply restarting the game 3 times from the beginning, I gave up. It's a bummer really, because I thoroughly enjoyed the first two entries of Syberia, and was willing to give it a fair shot despite a ton of criticism I've seen online. I also hate to give a bad review to a game without properly trying it out, I wouldn't leave the review had the issue not been so widespread, but since it is, be advised that there are a bunch of game-breaking bugs. I'm just glad I encountered mine at the very beginning. I am also willing to give it another shot on some other system some other time (mine was MacBook Pro M1 with some Homebrew adjustments via Terminal to get the game to launch in the first place), so if this allows me to actually experience it properly at some point, this review may change in the future.

I like the Syberia series, but it lacks enough clues to complete it without help.

My least favorite out of the Syberia series. The new game style was a step in the right direction, but the story is kind of all over the place, and the treatment of the "natives" is still just a problematic here, if not more so. Story-wise, it also holds the least importance out of the series. Honestly, I would skip it and go straight to Syberia: The World Before. It is everything this game wishes it could be.

This game is using the Unity engine and it shows. There are so many bugs and glitches that you cant get anywhere in the game without looking on YouTube for a walk through. I cant believe that I paid £9 for this game. I was looking forward to buying the next game ( Syberia The World Before. ). but if its anything like Syberia3 I will just look at it being played by someone on YouTube.

It's worth it to continue the Syberia story if you've played the first two games. It's not a perfect game, but it's not a bad game. There are some instances with clunky mechanics and camera controls which cause minor annoyances but it's not game breaking. My biggest gripe was that the English voice acting from some of the supporting characters felt lackluster, their tones don't match the situations they are in which breaks the immersion. Some people recommend switching the spoken language for an improvement and I tried, but I really wanted to stick with Kate Walker's original voice actor who voiced her in the first two games for nostalgia's sake. If Microids released a patch for the control bugs, it'd be a big improvement. Overall, I still enjoyed my time playing this and don't regret it.

Syberia 3 is what I'd call an enjoyable disaster of a game. On the technical side, it's a complete mess. The interface is terrible and the controls even more so, the camera is maddening, the dialogue randomly cuts out then cuts back in again, the subtitles can accidentally be pulled around the screen during gameplay, and the cursor constantly disappears. Speaking of, the gameplay is more of a mixed bag. The puzzles are hit and miss, with some being obvious, others too obtuse, but most hitting a decent sweet spot. Some of the logic is very arbitrary, for example at one point you have to craft a torch to progress, but you need a piece of fabric for it. Earlier on, a character gave me a scarf, so I thought that was the obvious solution, but no, turns out you're just meant to pull some random piece of cloth from the nearby environment, and the scarf isn't even an option. Similarly, there's a moment where you have to smash several lights on a boat but have nothing to smash them with, so I think to go down to the massive rack of hammers that I saw below deck earlier, but nope! Wrong again, you're just meant to find a big piece of metal in a box nearby. There were also several instances of me getting stuck not because I couldn't figure out the solution, but because I didn't have a crucial inventory item I was meant to have. You're also sometimes gated from progress until you've spoken to a specific NPC, a problem carried over from Syberia 2. The soundtrack is lovely, and it's really nice to have Sharon Mann back as Kate. Sadly the rest of the voices in this game bar one or two exceptions are *terrible*. The old German watchmaker who is meant to be a similar age to Hans in the last games speaks like a dorky American college student, and gallingly he also shares voice actor with the gruff-looking Russian bar owner AND Mr bloody Marson from Syberia 1+2 (albeit only in one short scene). For a game set in Russia, there are genuinely 0 Russian or even authentically eastern European sounding accents. Oscar is the one that upsets me the most, though. He sounds so soulless, and has lost all his personality from the previous two games. Story-wise, there barely is one. Nothing really happens in this game, other than the explanation for how Kate got back from Syberia. The overarching goal of "help the Youkols with the migration" feels both uninteresting and unwarranted. The far more interested aspects of the story, in my opinion, were finding out that Kate is wanted in the US for embezzlement and suspected murder (don't worry, that's not a spoiler, you get told it very early on), but the game doesn't really do anything with those points; it just seems to be the nudge nudge to make you think you've got no choice but to keep moving with the Youkols. Despite all that, I still like this game, and if you can get into awkward groove of the terrible interface, it's got a charm that made me keep wanting to come back. Kate is a joy of a character, even if everyone around her is wooden and poorly acted. The ending sucks, but it doesn't bother me much because it's not like the story itself was going anywhere. I can't see much value in playing it if you haven't played the first two games, but if you have, grab this one on sale and try to enjoy the jank. It's not worth skipping imo, but it's also not worth playing if you don't have prior investment in the series.

Due to the clunky controls and camera view, sitting through this game at times feels like torture. Even though the graphics and music are great, a 2D version might be more enjoyable to play. The story is nice. Get it on sale IF you liked the first Syberia and want to follow the story.

i played this franchise as a kido, now, continuing this game gives me a lot of good memories.

greatt game been waiting to play it for a long time

I really liked 1 & 2. Can't get past the icebreaker. Giving up now.

love the series

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