However, the culmination of frustrating elements means that the poorly laid out items are a cause of major headaches. Now, if her running speed was higher, controls and camera were tighter, and there were not chronic issues with load times that feel like they last minutes rather than seconds, then perhaps it would not be so bad. Worse yet, the tiniest of useful items will be randomly wedged in some far off area, so that even though most objects will have been collected within the nearby vicinity of a puzzle that needs solving, sometimes the game plays it cheap and requires Kate to trek about, checking every nook and cranny. There is a lot of filler content crammed into Syberia 3, unfortunately - lots of wandering and scouring large areas only to find that the majority of the places have no interaction zones, or do not come into play until about five different objectives have been achieved. She has to traverse numerous grand locations that all look gorgeous, but have a habit of being overly detailed, yet for no apparent reason, and vast in size, but again without any actual reason for being that way. Now that is dedication to the cause…or sheer foolhardiness… You decide, especially since that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to people relying on her.Īnyway, Kate Walker is great, from the excellent rendering of her character, to her written range, and the excellent delivery from her voice actress. One particular instance that sticks in the mind is how a ship's captain at one point has her moving cranes around to unload coal into his vessel, then sends her down to fix things in the engine room, don a diving outfit to scour the depths of the harbour the ship is anchored in so that she can manually unlock the dock gates, and then he even needs her to fight off a giant sea monster when out in the choppy waters! Crazy, right? Does she bat an eyelid, though? Nope, she just carries on like the good little trooper she is. However, saying that, sadly she does fall into some traps, since she might just be a touch too naïve in terms of how much she does for others. How about the parts that actually do grab the attention, though? Well, part of the allure stems from Kate Walker herself being a strong lead right from the very first game and continuing without misstep here. That is how it begins and then concludes, both in a very dissatisfying manner. To rub salt in the wounds, if the lack of wrap up was not bad enough, the end credits simply start to roll… without accompanying music! Players get the chance to sit in total silence as the game does not even wave goodbye properly. In fact, it leaves more questions, coming across as either an open door for DLC episodes, or - as writer Sokal himself has alluded to - a fourth, and even fifth, chapter. There is indeed a lot of hope that the effort put in will be repaid in some form.įor all the perseverance some will have with it, though, Syberia 3 does not reward those patient gamers in the slightest, offering up the most succinct of finales without tying anything up. However, there is something that keeps you going just enough intrigue in the story to grab the more inquisitive out there, with a hope that there will be some grand revelation, twist, or even explanation for the various threads running throughout the adventure. It is enough to make most just quit in the early stages. That is how everything starts - as a jumbled mess that comes with awful camera angles that change the controls when they randomly switch position, causing that age-old issue of running back on yourself by accident as the buttons adjust to the new perspective. The story in Syberia 3 is rather all over the place, the voice acting (at least for all of the smaller-part characters) is absolutely shocking, and the constant glitches and slowdown are inexcusable.
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