The emphasis is on wandering around inspecting your surroundings and picking up objects, though you can’t actually enter many places unless specific plot reasons call for it. There’s a few inventory puzzles, but since you can only carry a maximum of five items at a time (and usually you don’t even accumulate that much at once), there’s less guesswork involved in figuring out what to do next.
You can reconfigure the controls, but by default WASD moves, holding down shift at the same time runs, and the mouse cursor looks around and, depending on context and where it hovers, clicking interacts with an object or triggers commentary from the character you’re controlling. The game plays somewhat like a Telltale game (complete with the “This person will remember that”-type notifications), though there’s no QTEs or combat. Red Thread Games has been patching the game with more graphics settings and fixes to memory management and frame rates, so hopefully those should allow more people to run the game smoothly. While the game ran fine on my computer (I left everything at the default settings), there’s been reports of lack of optimization and the game lagging, especially in Europolis. I found Europolis a bit difficult to navigate initially, but I got used to the locations of different places as I walked around more. The character models mostly look and move fine, and Zoe had different outfits for Storytime and Stark (the latter depends on the career path she’s on). Since you only see one place in Stark, it’s a bit harder to talk much about that world, though I’m sure there’ll be a lot more to see there in later chapters. Europolis looks and feels like a bustling city. Storytime feels surreal with sundry things floating in the sky. The environments are varied and rendered with plenty of details. I do wish there was a chance of The Longest Journey Home being made (as the final scene seemed like a potential lead-in), but even without it the ending did feel like a proper conclusion. The final scene in particular loops in with The Longest Journey. There’s lots of callbacks to those games which lose poignance if you’re not familiar with the context and characters involved. However, this final book emphasizes the strong recommendation – dare I say, need – to play through the first two games first (or at minimum watch a Let’s Play). The conclusion wraps up loose ends neatly enough for you to walk away feeling as though things were resolved (no giant cliffhanger like the end of Dreamfall). You do get one choice to make, but you see the results right away since there’s no more books to wait for. While some of the choices you’ve made along the way affect the fates of some side characters, they don’t impact the overarching plot so much, which is a bit of a disappointment given how heavily the consequences from choices theme featured in the earlier books. While there was an emphasis on choices in first few books, in this one you’re mostly along for the ride, as, to quote the game, “the story is already written”. Parallels between Arcadia and Stark more apparent, and the line between the two worlds even blurs. Most of Kian’s side involves leading the resistance army to stop the Azadi’s plan to kill all magicals, while Zoe contends with revelations regarding her origins. More old faces show up again, with one who previously seemed like a comic relief character get a more important role. Given this is the climax, it’s a bit hard to go too much into the plot without spoilers, but I’ll still try to keep spoilers to a minimum.
Sections from my review of Book 1 will be in italics.)
(While the plot will be different in each book, the gameplay, graphics, and sound are essentially the same. It truly has been the longest journey, and this book promises to wrap up everything introduced in previous books and the aforementioned games.
#DREAMFALL CHAPTERS ENDINGS SERIES#
The Longest Journey came out in 1999, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey came out in 2006, and then we didn’t see another entry in this series until book 1 of Dreamfall Chapters came out in 2014. Here we are at last, the end of this long journey.
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