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Happily, I think that’s exactly what I’m going to get as Dreamfall Chapters plays out over the next year.īut fucking hell, I hate reviewing episodic games (and if that swearing shocked you, this really isn’t the game for you). I wanted to reconnect with Zoë and see what direction her life was taking, because as I mentioned, she was always a character who resonated with me. That would be a bonus, but I want a deep story with deep characters. That, right there, is what I wanted from Dreamfall Chapters. There’s no investigation there’s just “go and do this.” There’s this big open city, but you’re pretty much just following a set path of goals and objectives, with each leading directly to the next. There are bars and stores, but Zoë doesn’t want to go into them, and there aren’t any proper conversations aside from plot-relevant ones. I mean, it’s got a Blade Runner vibe going on, and there are all sorts of bits of incidental detail in the buildings and signs, and you can overhear plenty of interesting conversations on the street… but there’s very little to actually do there. If there’s a large problem with this, it’s that Europolis is big and empty. But there’s quite a lot of roaming around Europolis talking to people, then walking back across Europolis and talking to other people, then walking through Europolis again and talking to some different people…

There’s no combat, and almost no stealth.

There are a couple of simple inventory puzzles (one of which relies on using inventory objects in a hilariously convoluted way, but as that’s a tutorial puzzle, you’re pretty much told the solution anyway) but none of them are overly complicated, not least because it’s incredibly rare for you to have more than one item in your inventory at any given time.