It all sounds dizzyingly highbrow for a video game, but it’s brought somewhat down to earth by the often mediocre dialogue and voice-acting. As it sets out to tackle non-trivial concepts such as freedom, democracy, and religion.Įach book is themed around a particular life stage, and so naturally this first one deals with birth and rebirth. Although the game already has more subplots than it seems to know what to do with the subjects it tries to tackle are commendably adult. The other reason the illogical puzzles aren’t more of a problem is that the real appeal here is the story itself, with great chunks of the game being nothing more than non-interactive cut scenes. It’s not open world exactly but it is very large and filled with detail and people to talk to The graphics are also surprisingly good for a low budget game ( the Kickstarter apparently made $1.5 million, which is almost nothing in today’s world) and really sell the game world as something more than just a non-interactive backdrop. Thankfully the game does finally get into gear once Zoë wakes up, and starts exploring the cyberpunk city of Europolis. For better or worse though they’re the only such examples in this chapter and if they weren’t so obtuse we’d be saying there weren’t enough of them. At this point the game starts to introduce some proper old school adventure style puzzles, but they’re horribly illogical and the sort of thing LucasArts would have discarded on a first draft. Later on you take control of secondary lead Kian Alvane in Arcadia, who’s on death row but planning to use a prison riot to escape his fate. Dreamfall Chapters – Book One: Reborn (PC) – moral choices in Arcadia
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