Syberia (Nintendo Switch)

Syberia for the Switch is a port of the same game that originally released on the PC back in 2002. It's a traditional adventure game, meaning it's the type of game that involves you exploring and interacting with an environment in such a way that requires puzzle solving to get by. The puzzles never get extremely difficult and are very satisfying to solve.To be as succinct as possible, the game's story is very unique. You play as a lawyer from New York, Kate Walker, as you travel across Europe to find the sole heir of a mechanical toy factory. Along the way you meet some very bizarre characters, but ones that will stick out from just about anything you'll see in a video game. The pacing of the entire game is definitely methodical, but never slow. I found myself genuinely intrigued to see what weirdo or beautiful environment I'll find myself with next.That said, this game might not be for everyone. This is the type of game for that player that likes to sit down and careful investigate, so if you're looking for something breakneck or bombastic, this isn't it. However, despite that, I wholeheartedly feel that if you're willing to calmly approach this game, you'll be rewarded with a game that will stick with you for a long time.

Ordered from the UK I was kinda hesitant but glad I did.. So ordered the second game to this one. I haven't finished this game yet but so far I'm enjoying it very much can't wait to get to the mammoth part of the game!😊

I really enjoy this type of game - it doesn't require me to kill, shoot, hate or fight anyone. You solve problems to progress through the game. I can work at my own pace. Can't wait to move on to Siberia 2.

Graphics are ok, there are puzzles but most of them are pretty easy. There is a lot of running back and forth. A LOT. Interesting enough story line. My problem with the whole thing is I finished the game VERY quickly. I definitely don't feel like I got my money's worth.

Very cool game lots of twists and turns.

It is really kinda boring

This is a 2002 game, ported to the Switch. I got it via the Nintendo Store when I saw it half price one day ($15). I like adventure games and was hoping I'd like this enough to play through the series, and I wanted to start at the beginning of the storyline. But 2002... so I hesitated until I saw the sale. (Update: also got Syberia 2 on sale via the Nintendo store, and played that through, and 3 is likely in the cards.)I'm enjoying it. It's a beautiful desolate world with puzzles, a bit reminiscent of Myst for me in terms of the beautiful and fanciful (and mechanical) worlds, but Myst avoided characters because they couldn't be rendered as beautifully as the world. This game has few and slightly awkward characters. As a 2002 game, you move from discrete place to discrete place, and you see that place from exactly one perspective. Movement is awkward for two reasons. Mostly, you can move from one scene right to left, but then the perspective shifts so that to keep moving "in the same direction", you have to switch from left to right. This means that I've often gone back and forth between two scenes trying to hit the magic point to keep moving forward. The other thing I've found is that the spot to move forward can be narrowly defined. When you're searching, this means that you can miss something; when you know the map already, it can just be annoying. 2002. It's all good.Fine for kids if they have the patience for the controls; this includes both the subject matter and the "scare factor", at least as far as I've gotten so far (I will update when I'm done with the game). Maybe depending on specific circumstances; there's a funeral at the beginning and a child who falls and gets hurt. When my son was young, we played Zelda together, and I can imagine this being great fun to play with a youngish kid, passing the controller back and forth and solving the puzzles together. (Update: I'm kind of meh on the notion of this game with kids now. There's a lot of text to read through and the pacing is fairly slow in general. Also, there is some drama with Kate and her boyfriend on the phone. Hmmm. Golly, and in Syberia 2, there's a place where Kate is called a whore. Why, ridiculous game designers?) Syberia 2 seemed to have fewer walls of text, and except for the whore comment, I was thinking again that this would be fun to play with a kid, working together.)A little bit frustrating when you think you've left no stone unturned, but you haven't, and have to retrace your steps. Of course, you can resort to an online walkthrough if you get stuck. In this sense, along with the wonky motion, the game can be slow paced and frustrating.Puzzles are on the easy side and there is no combat. (Later in the game, I think some of the puzzles are kind of weird, rather than clever. Similarly for Syberia 2.) If you try the wrong object in the wrong place, it just won't work. Objects that are no longer needed disappear from your inventory, to help keep things straight.So this ends up being mostly about letting the story unfold, and learning the mystery of what happened in this town.I'm still glad that I got this and played it... I'm amused by the mechanical world, and I'd like to get the second game, which will presumably make more sense after playing the first. But I don't quite recommend it at its normal asking price (but maybe buy the version that has Syberia and Syberia 2 together?)I haven't gotten Syberia 3 yet, but it might be good to know that 1 and 2 work together as a story. At the end of 1, you don't have all the questions answered, but at the end of 2, you basically do. 1 was made in 2002, and 2 was made in 2004... 3 was made in 2017. So I expect 3 to have familiar characters and settings, but wildly different game mechanics and visuals. Update: Ah, interesting. Metacritic says Siberia 3 is awkward in many ways. So I will probably skip it. As I'd already decided, 1+2 completed the story arc for me, and I'm happy to stop there.

I was looking for a game that was similar to Resident Evil or Tomb Raider and came across this. I decided to give it a try, and I was pleasantly surprised. The game play is almost exactly like Resident Evil, except that there are no zombies or gore. The graphics are nice too, and some of the animation I would say even rivals Disney! However, the story is... well, something that could be featured on MST3K (Some spoilers ahead, but it might be better if you know about them now so you won't be disappointed later). You are a lawyer who sets off into God-Knows-Where to search for a man named Hans Vorarlberg, so you can get him to sign a contract. To do that you have to give an opera singer to a deranged lunatic who took a robot's hands, and launch a drunk man into space. Nuff said.

Très rapide merci