Game Review - Syberia 2
Jul. 23rd, 2006 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sqlrobTitle: Syberia II
Platform: XBox
Genre: Adventure
Complete: Yes
Price Paid: $17.99 (new)
Would Pay: $3.99
I bought this because I wanted to see where it was going to go after Syberia. To be perfectly honest, that was a pretty poor reason to buy this. Crap like this is why people repeat the litany "Adventure games are dead". I could not bring myself to care about the characters, and the only reason I finished was that I went through so much trouble trying to find it. I simply went through the motions, referring to the FAQ more and more as I got further along. My preference is to use FAQs to the smallest degree possible, but trying to solve some of these puzzles was more of a chore than anything else. Alternating between this and Dragon's Quest may have highlighted the flaws in my mind, but there certainly didn't seem to be anything done right enough to wipe the bad taste out of my mouth. Sure, the graphics are absolutely gorgeous, but that doesn't make up for the lack of pacing and kludgy interface.
Platform: XBox
Genre: Adventure
Complete: Yes
Price Paid: $17.99 (new)
Would Pay: $3.99
I bought this because I wanted to see where it was going to go after Syberia. To be perfectly honest, that was a pretty poor reason to buy this. Crap like this is why people repeat the litany "Adventure games are dead". I could not bring myself to care about the characters, and the only reason I finished was that I went through so much trouble trying to find it. I simply went through the motions, referring to the FAQ more and more as I got further along. My preference is to use FAQs to the smallest degree possible, but trying to solve some of these puzzles was more of a chore than anything else. Alternating between this and Dragon's Quest may have highlighted the flaws in my mind, but there certainly didn't seem to be anything done right enough to wipe the bad taste out of my mouth. Sure, the graphics are absolutely gorgeous, but that doesn't make up for the lack of pacing and kludgy interface.