In the magical world of Arcadia, one of our heroes, Kian Alvane is recovering from his near death experience being rescued from the prison Friar’s Keep. It is because of Tornquist’s perfectionism and love of his universe that the game’s second book faced a short delay, but was certainly worth the wait.īook 2: Rebels takes place moments after the events of the previous installment. Due to the huge gap in time, this third game offers much more advanced graphics and the ability for Tornquist to see more of his ideas realized.
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Book One: Reborn, released back in October of last year was the first release for the series after an 8 year break during which the game’s creator Ragnar Tornquist reached out to Kickstarter to get support in making the third game in the franchise. After a short and unexpected delay, the second book of the game Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey was released this March. Dreamfall Chapters is a great example that games like this can work, I sincerely hope that gamers give it a chance, it’s worth it.Login / Register to rate.
Score: 84% |The story and conversations are so good that it’s easy to forgive the technical shortcomings. Luckily you stand still for more than half of the time for the engaging conversations but once you start moving around things go a little downhill with technical issues. It never seems to get an acceptable fluid motion. The game has pretty long and weirdly placed loading times and you get a lot of slowdown and frame rate issues while running around.
I love game engine Unity and even though developer Red Thread Games upgraded Dreamfall Chapters to Unity 5 it’s still a shame that they didn’t use a more advanced game engine or optimized it a little more.It never provided a real challenge, a few bigger and more difficult braincrackers would have been welcome. It was a welcome change of pace, only issue I had with them was the difficulty. Once in a while you have to solve a puzzle, most of the times you will need to find something and use it on another item, kinda like a point and click game.So I have a very mixed impression about the graphics, I do have to say that you come across some mind blowing beautiful scenes that features some impressive art work, but not everything is that great. Visually the game can look stunning, five minutes later you come across something that could be found with an original Xbox game.It totally sucked me in and deserved all my attention. Conversations between characters always have more meaning and I was fascinated by each and every person. It’s by far one the best in the game industry when you purely look at this feature. What really drives the game is the conversations and dialogue, even random NPC have more meaningful voiced lines than most other video games in general.They often come with some emotional-heavy subjects like racism or depression, another reason why I love Dreamfall Chapters so much, the developer wasn’t afraid to use some modern age issues for the game.
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(but still good) Same can be said about side-characters, the world is full with weird and “special” living beings. Alvane isn’t all too bad either, but his setting was a little less interesting. She is definitely on par with Chloe and Max from Life is Strange if it comes to character depth. A believable, and more importantly, very interesting character that faces quite a few troubles that everyone can understand. While both characters have a pretty good background and time to shine it is Zoë Castillo that becomes the star of the game.
It takes a while before the link between them becomes clear but that helps with the mysterious story. You control two playable characters, Zoë and Alvane.Backed by an impressive meaningful decision-system that truly changes the game, you won’t always immediately know how and why but you are always informed with a “The balance has changed” message. The main reason for that is the excellent storytelling, while it’s a little difficult to get the big picture when you didn’t play the two previous games it’s still an impressive and one-of-the-best stories you’ll find in a video game. Dreamfall Chapters is a game with light-gameplay moments, this will unfortunately scare away a few people but trust me when I say that the game is worth playing.With great pleasure did I start my journey with Zoë, what did I think about it? Was it a dream to play or a nightmare to experience? Let’s find out! Review Dreamfall Chapters | An emotional story driven game, it’s a rare thing to see, especially on Xbox.