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But without the context, new players have no way of knowing this. Maybe that wasn’t the best of decisions, and thatÂ seriouslyÂ comes back to bite you later on. Surely that’s good enough reason to let Kian or Likho stab her, right? Wait, now the game’s telling me she betrayed them for essential medicine and Kian forced her into it.

All the game tells us (initially) is that she’s a traitor and that lead to April’s death. Yes, I’m talking about Na’ane and the impact that has. This kind of rolls over to the choice system, too whilst notÂ everythingÂ has dire consequences, some do, later on down the line, and without the prior knowledge and backstory for some of these, you almost get cheated. What’s their relationship usually like? Hell if I know. Is he? All I saw was him saying he didn’t like her getting involved in notably dangerous politics, not actively stopping her doing it. His character bio says they’ve been together a long time and his disappearance is what kicked off the first game, but then Zoe’s coming out with all this stuff about how he’s acting odd and controlling. ThisÂ can apply to Reza, too – I was never really sure whether to encourage his relationship with Zoe or not. To an outsider, she looks like a character shoved into interludes for no particular reason (is there any real reason her parents keep going missing?) and has a nice deus ex machina moment in the end, just in time to save Kian. Saga, again, probably has a lot more meaning to fans who know what the subtle hints in the lore mean. I’m sure Crow’s reappearance and April’s alleged rebirth as Saga, which I only stumbled across because I started reading the wikia, would have a great emotional impact to long time fans, but not me because I have no idea who she is. The game doesn’t tell usÂ whoÂ April Ryan was, apart from the girl who was on the front cover of the other games, the saviour of the aforementioned Balance (which only gets a sort of explanation right at the end), and the girl who was cremated at the start. This is the same problem with Crow, and particularly with Saga. Yes, Zoe, I’m sure you’ve been toÂ Arcadia before, but I sure haven’t, and I have no idea who this Brian Westhouse dude is supposed to be, or even if he’s remotely trustworthy. And whilst this is manageable for the first three books, aside from discussing how Zoe got to her position at the start of the first book, this becomes aÂ lotÂ worse in book four.

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The problem coming in three games late is that it’s exactly like coming into a book series on the third novel there’s a hell of a lot you’re missing out on, and considering the previous two games aren’t on console along with the third ( albeit, they are on Steam), new players are completely thrown in the deep end. This, on the other hand, does have its downsides. In a way, it’s nice to have characters that have already been established a couple of games ago they can educate the player as they go along. You definitely can’t fault this game for its lore the more you look around and talk to people, the more you learn, and I couldn’t get enough of it.

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The worlds feel alive, if not a little boxed in from a gameplay perspective, and are full of people and creatures that are absolutely exquisite in design. This game is saturated with colour, life, and magic from every angle, from the bricks of Stark to the streets of Marcuria. Oh, and before I forget – the soundtrack is absolutely stunning.Īs I saidÂ before, Dreamfall Chapters is a fantasy novel come to life. Now I’m all done, it was an incredible, in-depth and very confusing ride. I mentioned that I was holding off on my full review until I’d gotten through the second half, to let you all know what I thought about the story and the choice system. So a little while back, I did a One Hour Tour when I was about halfway through Dreamfall Chapters, the episodic third game from a point and click trilogy that goes all the way back to 1998. TL DR:Â A beautiful story that’s really hard to make sense of.įamily Focus: Click here for more information. Publisher: Red Thread Games, Deep Silver, Funcom