DREAMFALL CHAPTERS BOOK 2 REVIEW FULL

Doing so could gain her favour with Queenie, an influential higher up who could significantly help the political campaign Zoe is working for. She must also try to find a young street girl who may be in trouble. Meanwhile in Stark, Zoe is still having trouble with her incredibly boring boyfriend, Reza (seriously…why is she still with him?).

DREAMFALL CHAPTERS BOOK 2 REVIEW FULL

For the “magicals” living in the city it’s a grim life full of raids and arrests to anyone who dares object to the Azadi rule. Alone and with little choice, he chooses to join the rebel magicals to drive the Azadi from Marcuria, who seem to have some nefarious scheme cooked up for the once thriving city. On the Arcadia side we have Kian who managed to just barely survive his gunshot wound after being rescued by the rebels. Things are looking pretty tense in both the worlds of Stark and Arcadia. Dreamfall Book 2, named Rebels, starts off a few days after Book 1 left off. Zoe is still looking as stylish as one can look in a dystopian future.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. In fact, they were downright difficult, marking Dreamfall Chapters as my favourite game so far of the year! The choices I was presented with later on though were far from obvious.

I prepared myself for an episode full of these illusions. The choice to do nothing is still indeed a choice, and they showed the player the consequence of that choice.Ĭhoice may have been an obvious illusion in this case. And I have to say, kudos to the developers. Why bother giving me the choice at all? But then I thought about for a few minutes. But it seems I had to do it if I wanted the full story. I was not in the mood for the “fight with some rebels for a cause the character clearly has no investment in” plot. Choose any path other than the one the game clearly wants you to take and you are immediately presented with a “Game Over” screen.Īt first I was miffed with this development. Kian is given a choice: join the rebels who rescued him but who are very much strangers to him or refuse to join their movement in which he has no interest. And indeed they seem to ring true at first. These words are spoken by Kian Alvane early in Book 2 of Dreamfall Chapters which was recently released by Redthread Games. If you wish to play Book 1, you can see the review for it here. And then there’s the big overarching plot, which – in this episode – starts to come into focus a little bit more.Spoiler warning: Plot points from Book 1 will be discussed in this review. I’m deciding how “Azadi” Kian still is, or how repentant and apologetic I’m deciding how desperately Zoe wants to remember and how her relationship is going. I don’t know how much of an impact these decisions will have on the way the story arcs out, but in terms of defining them and their relationships, it does feel like it’s having an effect. Sorry.Īll of this extends to the primary characters, too, with my decisions shaping Kian and Zoe in ways I’m not entirely comfortable with. An irritating one, sure, but one I can actually see as a person. Which is a tiny but very, very crucial difference. When I see him, I’m not moaning to myself “oh no, it’s him again” outside of the game I’m moaning that as someone invested in the game.

He actually is annoying (because he’s a tiny street urchin), but he’s annoying in a way that… well, it’s a character trait. I’m sorry, I’m still surprised by that.Įnu has so much potential to be terrible. Sort of like… well, sort of like an actual adventure game. Etc.īoth characters have more wandering to do and more puzzles to solve at any given time you’ve usually got two or three tasks to accomplish, and – with a few exceptions – it’s up to you to choose which order you want to do them in. There’s a heavier police presence, fewer people on the streets, more checkpoints, and just more general unpleasantness. Once you’re done with his bits and pieces (some of which can actually be failed, and no, I have no idea what consequences will result from that) it’s back to Zoe, who’s still trying to do a task for boat-bound mastermind Queenie on the streets of the dystopian Europolis, which has somehow become even more dystopian between games. Actions often have unexpected repercussions, and I’m expecting more of this from Dreamfall Chapters than most other games. On the other hand, I’m a bit worried that 28% think it’s acceptable. On the one hand, I’m sort of relieved that 72% of players refused to torture someone who definitely deserves to suffer.

Dreamfall chapters book 2 review