Dreamfall Chapters Book Three: Realms

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  1. o0thePope0o
    Apr 28, 2016
    4
    The game's pace is very disjointed. Characters' motivations seem a little obscure and the game play is at times convoluted. While there seems to be a lot of anticipation for an upcoming "judgment day" of sort, the game fails to point out what are the stakes. So in the end the player only focuses on the task at hand, not caring about the big picture. Dialogues are very long and, whileThe game's pace is very disjointed. Characters' motivations seem a little obscure and the game play is at times convoluted. While there seems to be a lot of anticipation for an upcoming "judgment day" of sort, the game fails to point out what are the stakes. So in the end the player only focuses on the task at hand, not caring about the big picture. Dialogues are very long and, while certainly interesting, they fail to be engaging because characters' animation is poorly done. Therefore all dialogues seem very static and more boring than they actually are. This would work well as an audio book.… Expand
  2. JustMy2
    Sep 9, 2015
    0
    The first two episodes left me so underwhelmed I almost didn't care about playing this game anymore, so it actually took me three moths after the release of chapter 3 to even try it out.

    A lot can be said about the shortcomings of the first two, but I'll sum it up in a single sentence: I never got invested in the story or the characters, and the surrounding gameplay was excruciatingly    The first two episodes left me so underwhelmed I almost didn't care about playing this game anymore, so it actually took me three moths after the release of chapter 3 to even try it out.

    A lot can be said about the shortcomings of the first two, but I'll sum it up in a single sentence: I never got invested in the story or the characters, and the surrounding gameplay was excruciatingly tedious.

    So when I finally decided to check out part three, my expectations were low.

    The first scene was mildly entertaining, but still plenty tedious to play through (I'll avoid spoilers here, in case someone actually wants to play through this snorefest of a game).

    But then the game dropped me into a conversation between two characters where one of them came to the conclusion the other was gay (after a very forced and obvious setup dialogue), and -surely enough!- went on to give the usual cringe-worthy declaration of tolerance to prove she's not a homophobe.

    This kind of **** keeps happening in Dreamfall Chapters, and it keeps pissing me off. Not that I give a damn about homosexuals doing their thing; to each his own, live and let live and all that jazz.

    I just don't want this stupid political correctness mania infesting my games!

    It's just so *wrong* for a fantasy character in a magical wonderland to speak as if she is afraid to upset the sensitivities of the easily butthurt Western PC-culture on Earth anno 2015 (the only place in space and time where people constantly have to pay lip service to tolerance and inclusiveness of an entire laundry-list of protected out-groups to avoid being socially ostracized).

    After suffering through this painful conversation to its bitter end, I was dropped in a dark back alley as Kian Alvane, the badass warrior who never actually does anything. My task (should I choose to accept it) was to go to someplace and presumably talk to someone or something, it didn't really say.

    I dutifully walked a couple of meters forward, then I stopped and asked myself: Why am I even here? Why am I supposed to go to that place? Why am I even supposed to care about anything or anyone in this game?

    The full weight of how totally emotionally not invested I was in this game hit me like a freight train. I couldn't find the enthusiasm to move another step forward, so I shut down the game right then and there. I don't intend to try again later, and I don't intend to download the last two episodes. I really don't give a F about what happens next.

    It's all just so incredibly BLAND!

    This game will forever remain in my memory as the game where deciding to buy a sausage or not passes as An Important Choice, having Severe Consequences.

    (Mild Spoiler of those consequences: an obnoxious character whose guts you probably hate says he got a tummy ache if you give him the sausage. Hard to feel sorry about that. And not even that satisfying.)    … Expand

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  1. GameSpot
    Jul 24, 2015
    80
    In many ways, Book Three acts as the fulcrum from which the story's trajectory pivots on your past choices. It is short and powerful, using the momentum of previous chapters to leverage dramatic weight going into the penultimate act like narrative jiu-jitsu
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  2. Ragequit.gr
    Jun 30, 2015
    88
    Implementing some beautifully executed and very cleverly scripted "traditional" adventure game puzzles, as well as further advancing the excellent storyline, "Realms" proves, beyond all doubt, that Dreamfall Chapters is indeed, the next step of an unforgettable journey into the heart of what-may-very-well-be.
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