Dreamfall Chapters Reviews

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I am a huge fan of the first two titles, and they will forever remain among my absolute favorite games. But this was a disappointment. I followed the development process and the books as they were released but gave up after the fourth one due to that disappointment. Now, years later, I have decided to give it another ago and finally find out how it all ends. And what do you know, now it's even more of a disappointment. [u]Spoilers ahead. [/u] I definitely enjoyed [i]some[/i] parts of the game. I loved seeing April. I loved the visuals. I loved walking around Marcuria and Europolis. But the writing… is subpar, to put it mildly. And somehow, it gets worse and worse with each book. By the end of the game, it was pretty clear that the devs did not know how to finish the storylines and tie the plot together, so they just created Saga to shove her in the right place and resolve everything. And on top of that, made Kian adopt her (which was beyond stupid and cringe-inducing) because they had no idea what to do with Lady Alvane and they [i]definitely[/i] didn't want it to be April as fans speculated for years because Kian's now apparently gay. I hated the modern-day politics shoved into 22th century and a fantasy world. I hated that lazy "hey do you know fascism is bad" writing, including the ginger Hitler-like, a replica of concentration camps, and racial hate speeches - what on earth was all that. Who do they think the audience of TLJ has been? Teenagers? I also hated the multiverse angle, and I [i]really[/i] hated the retconning of previous games. I hated how they changed Kian's character, because I loved him in Dremfall:TLJ and I loved his interactions with April. He had great potential as a character. But alas, in this game, I felt either nothing or annoyance. If there ever will be TLJ:Home, I'm not expecting much from it. However, I will continue to enjoy the first two games with my own headcanons.

The first game was one of my favorite childhood games. The second one was pretty nice as well. But this has so much left wing political messaging and cringe worthy characters that it honestly just put me off. It's like the game took a complete 180. Later on I realized that the first two games were made by Funcom while this one was made by the studio responsible for Dustborn so now it all makes sense.