Syberia

Syberia was one of my childhood games, so I’m definitely biased, but coming back to it still feels special. The atmosphere, music, strange locations, and slow sense of adventure are incredibly memorable. The controls and some puzzles have aged, but the charm is still there. 9/10

An absolute classic of worldbuilding and atmosphere. The art design and the artistic visions are mindblowing, while typical 'adventure game nonsense' like moon logic puzzles or pixel hunt are pretty much nonexistent.

For a game from 2002, I wasn't expecting this to run smoothly without issues, but it did. It felt nostalgic playing this game, reminding me of games that I never finished as a kid. The steampunk setting got me instantly hooked even if there are little things in the gameplay that seem obsolete today. but I won't get in to that. It was an interesting game and I look forward to continuing the series as this game ended on a note that made me desire more. Every end, is a new beginning, as they say. For Kate, that's what I felt was unfolding throughout this game. Can I please have my own atomaton that cleans the house for me?

more time spent walking around than anything else

I am too, one of those people who have no idea why this game as successful as it is. The puzzle solutions are spoonfed to you, no, rather there are no puzzles in the game as you can't make bad interactions, there's no such thing as "Isn't right", you will see a crossed out magnifying glass and that's it, 90% of the locations are empty, making travel between scenes take long without anything happening, you are not told why you are doing the things you are doing, why you should use the punch cards, why the pink one specifically, you can't look at items, only use them, as Kate's only sentence is "Don't need to go down there", she barely gives any interaction, motivation, nor interest to have about a seemingly steampunk-y world. I wanted to like it, but the truth is I was pretty letdown what Syberia 1 offered with a bare minimum of gameplay, I never seen a point and click game to be used as a walking simulator, because this is what it is and while it could be that later on the puzzles get more interesting or harder to solve with errors to have, the first hour of this game was the biggest chore I have ever experienced in a point and click videogame, therefore I wouldn't recommend as I…

I've played many Point & Click games in the past, but the atmosphere of Syberia just drew me in from the first five minutes. The game itself doesn't revolutionize the genre nor is the story, voice acting, or graphics anywhere near the likes of Broken Sword or Monkey Island, but the world and atmosphere are so whimsical that it reminds me of a 90s Disney movie or maybe something like Anastasia. Looking forward to the sequel, which seems to pick up directly from this.