Fair warning though: as evidenced above, the language in the game can get pretty colourful. I did not think I could laugh so much at a simple fetch quest, but finding things for the little bot to do ended up being the highlight for the entire game for me and probably the most quotable as well. But the star of the show for me personally had to be Shitbot, the old, useless robot Zoe is tasked to train. Kian gets a refreshing injection of personality compared to the last game. Zoe makes a good sarcastic straight man to many of the more colourful characters. I have to admit that I squealed a little upon seeing an advertisement for Bingo Cola and a Crow Boy map guide.īetter than that are the characters and dialogue, which not only sound natural but can be incredibly witty. One of their core strengths has always been creating rich and complex worlds, and Dreamfall Chapters continues that tradition, introducing new elements such as Europolis and the political machine it runs on and building on old elements introduced in the previous games. But Red Thread Games for the most part handles it deftly. There is a lot of catching up to do with old characters and a lot of foundation to lay for the new adventure to come. That is a lot to unpack for what amounts to about two hours of gameplay. Not only that, but Zoe has been struggling to regain her memories. Her relationship is on the rocks and there is political unrest in the rainy city. Oddly enough, she has gotten back together with her boyfriend, Reza, whom had gone missing during the events of Dreamfall. Concrete and food carts dominate every space. Rent for even a shoebox apartment is at a premium. This is about as urban jungle as urban jungle can get. Three months later, Zoe has now moved to Europolis, a far cry from sunny, pleasant Casablanca of Dreamfall. Unfortunately, she seems to have lost most of her memories of both the events leading up to her coma and her time in the dreamworld, including the fact that it was her own mother who put her there in an attempt to cover up a massive conspiracy. Soon though, Zoe must make the decision to wake up from her coma and travel back to the land of the living. After a brief prologue in which we witness the funeral of April Ryan (sniff), we see Zoe trapped in the dreamworld and helping lost souls who have succumbed to the addictive Dream Machine that she had attempted to eliminate in the previous game. While we spend a bit of time with Kian and his escape from prison, the majority of the game is actually spent with Zoe. He at least has been working out while in prison. Taking place one year after the events of the last game, we find ourselves once again with Zoe Castillo, the young woman capable of entering dreams who ended up in a coma while saving the world, and Kian, the fanatic apostle turned rebel traitor who has been in prison since. Spoilers of the previous games will be discussed here.ĭreamfall Chapters: Reborn is the first in a series of episodic games and serves mostly as an introduction to the new plot and a quick catch-up with the previous games’ protagonists. Red Thread provides a recap of the major events of Dreamfall, but it’s fairly brief. SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t played either the Longest Journey or Dreamfall, it is recommended you do so. So…be ye warned…biases and minor spoilers of the previous games might ensue. Like…a really big lot and that I will be reviewing this as someone who is a huge fan of the previous games. I tell you these stories not to bore you but to give you an idea of just how much I have been anticipating Dreamfall Chapters. And of course, as with almost all big adventure games these days, we have Kickstarter to thank for it. Seven years later…after much development hell and giving up hope that I would ever get a conclusion to my favourite story, we finally have that sequel. And again, I was sad to see it end (especially since it was on a massive cliffhanger) and wondered if the next sequel would even get made. Ragnar Tornquist, creator of the games, assured everyone that this time around it would not take seven years to make a sequel. Like its predecessor, I easily got engrossed in the story and related to the issues the characters were going through. Seven years after it was made, Dreamfall came out as a sequel and I eagerly shoved my way to the front of the line to get my copy.
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