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Dreamfall
Biggles
<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
[i]Dreamfall[/i] is finally out in NZ, which means it should be out pretty much everywhere by now. Therefore, it's time for the requisite post commanding you all go out and buy it!
I've just finished it, and it is, I think, one of the best scifi stories ever told. Not necessarily a great game, it seems to choose story over gameplay whenever the choice arises, and most people buy a game to actually play, not watch. But that's fine with me! It's worth every single second and every single cent. If you played [i]The Longest Journey[/i] and liked the story and characters of that, getting [i]Dreamfall[/i] is a no-brainer. But even if you haven't played TLJ, it's still worth it. Even the intro brought a tear to my eye, it was that well done. How many intros manage to be that emotionally engaging? The whole game is filled with great cinematic moments. Oh, and so many cool little touches! Like the fact that they use [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan]ekranoplans[/url] for high speed inter-continental travel!
And now, on with the spoilers! Really, really don't read these unless you've played it right through!
[spoiler]The ending. Woah. Someone's out to generate controversy.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the "ending," but I wish I didn't have to wait so long for the rest! Not to mention that it could hardly be called a happy ending, given the situation:
- Zoe is in a coma, and dying.
- April was last seen with a pike blade through her stomach falling off a wharf (although given the ending of TLJ, and normal story telling convention, chances are she's still alive).
- Kian was being arrested for treason by his highly fanatical and very unforgiving religious empire.
- Brian Westhouse was acting rather suspicious.
- The person claiming to be Zoe's boyfriend isn't actually who he's claiming to be?
- The white dragon was last heard screaming, accompanied by stabbing sounds and... what sounded like flapping wings, but could have just been book pages.
- The rebels have all been massacered.
- Evil Waticorp Blobman was killed by evil Waticorp lady.
- Waticorp's evil plan appears to be succeeding.
- Azadi's evil plan also appears to be succeeding.
- The undreaming is unchained. Whatever that means.
- The worlds are, in general, going to hell in a pair of handbaskets.
So... where's the happy part? But it was a good, if sad, ending.
[/spoiler]
I've just finished it, and it is, I think, one of the best scifi stories ever told. Not necessarily a great game, it seems to choose story over gameplay whenever the choice arises, and most people buy a game to actually play, not watch. But that's fine with me! It's worth every single second and every single cent. If you played [i]The Longest Journey[/i] and liked the story and characters of that, getting [i]Dreamfall[/i] is a no-brainer. But even if you haven't played TLJ, it's still worth it. Even the intro brought a tear to my eye, it was that well done. How many intros manage to be that emotionally engaging? The whole game is filled with great cinematic moments. Oh, and so many cool little touches! Like the fact that they use [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan]ekranoplans[/url] for high speed inter-continental travel!
And now, on with the spoilers! Really, really don't read these unless you've played it right through!
[spoiler]The ending. Woah. Someone's out to generate controversy.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the "ending," but I wish I didn't have to wait so long for the rest! Not to mention that it could hardly be called a happy ending, given the situation:
- Zoe is in a coma, and dying.
- April was last seen with a pike blade through her stomach falling off a wharf (although given the ending of TLJ, and normal story telling convention, chances are she's still alive).
- Kian was being arrested for treason by his highly fanatical and very unforgiving religious empire.
- Brian Westhouse was acting rather suspicious.
- The person claiming to be Zoe's boyfriend isn't actually who he's claiming to be?
- The white dragon was last heard screaming, accompanied by stabbing sounds and... what sounded like flapping wings, but could have just been book pages.
- The rebels have all been massacered.
- Evil Waticorp Blobman was killed by evil Waticorp lady.
- Waticorp's evil plan appears to be succeeding.
- Azadi's evil plan also appears to be succeeding.
- The undreaming is unchained. Whatever that means.
- The worlds are, in general, going to hell in a pair of handbaskets.
So... where's the happy part? But it was a good, if sad, ending.
[/spoiler]
Comments
Worf
I liked TLJ a lot (-xcept the "key from the metrorail -puzzle) so I might pick the game up when I get the time. :)
[B]I've been tempted but I've never played the Longest Journey...
Worf [/B][/QUOTE]
Heathen!
You don't need to play TLJ to understand anything that happens in Dreamfall. Anything necessary (which isn't that much) is explained quite well during the course of Dreamfall.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Data Crystal [/i]
[B]I liked TLJ a lot (-xcept the "key from the metrorail -puzzle)[/B][/QUOTE]
You and everyone else. :D