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Syberia (PS3)

This is an adventure game that has aged just incredibly poorly. I'm not really sure if it still has a point in 2022. The game I'm sure was a novelty 20 years ago. It is set in a painstakingly pre-rendered world that looks a lot better than most games that existed at that time. That's really the only notable thing about it. The voice-acting is not-good, the story is seriously boring, and most of the characters are disembodied voices on the main character Kate's phone. For some reason, they decided to have most of the story take place on the phone, maybe because the artists didn't want to animate any more characters? It's really dumb and just highlights how poor the voice acting is, Kate's in particular.

The world feels dead. It's not unusual for these older adventure games to have fewer characters, but because of how large and grand these pre-rendered areas are, they end up feeling cold and empty, almost like a mausoleum.

The PC version was point and click, but the adapted controls on console are super janky. Kate is always bumping into invisible, uneven barriers. It would have worked better if they kept it as point and click with the controller. The puzzles are nothing to write home about. Slightly below average for adventure games, with a lot of them reliant on backtracking and trying things until they work.

Some of the full motion video still looks kind of neat after all this time, with the automatons. I will give it that.

I have the second game too, and I hear it's more of the same. After this, I doubt I am going to play it.