Before long you’re just going through the motions, or heading to Google to figure the damn thing out. Treading the line between old-school, illogical mental challenges and pretty straightforward solutions, developer Red Thread Games struggles to make either have the necessary impact. This means there will be times where you force yourself to continue – as opposed to being compelled to – and that can be a problem, made worse because the mentioned puzzles aren’t exactly a high point either. All you’re ever really doing is allowing a narrative to unwind as you solve puzzles and get to know the locals, and Dreamfall’s plot fails to ever truly get going. The most important part of titles of this ilk is to be intriguing from the off. While the story is compelling enough to keep you going, it never really hits the heights you’d like or expect. The introduction of multiple main characters is nice, mainly because the constant jumping around keeps Dreamfall more interesting that it would have been otherwise, but the biggest issue here is how archaic it can feel. As ever, there’s more to this than meets the eye, and it’s up to you to figure it all out by stepping into the shoes of Zoë Castillo and Kian Alvane.
Set in 2020, and focused mainly on how an evil corporation has drugged the majority of its citizens with a device called ‘the dream machine’, residents are choosing to live in their made-up fantasies as a result of being in a drug-induced coma.
Whether you’ll want to do that is a different matter entirely.īuy Dreamfall Chapters now from Amazon UK | A port of the PC version released episodically last year, this is every entry squeezed into one and now playable on your console.
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Available on PC, PS4 (version tested) and Xbox Oneĭreamfall Chapters is simultaneously both a wonderful throwback to the adventure games of yesteryear, and also a reminder that, in 2017, you probably need a little more refinement in your approach when handling that genre.
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