The puzzles are not good, and the pacing of puzzle-solving and exploration is quite bad, skewed heavily toward ping-ponging from lock to key back to lock. I certainly didn't dislike TLJ (and I did very much dislike Dreamfall), but I don't think it is in the same league as classic adventures. If you were a huge fan of TLJ, that just rubbed you the wrong way. It's like he wanted to make a new story but he had to use existing IP to tie few things together, and he reluctantly did. To me, dreamfall games always felt like Ragnar got bored of the TLJ stuff and really wanted to depart into something more edgy, realistic and more complex. Great dialogue.Īnd yeah, storytime was a foreign concept that could exist on its own, and not diminishing the existing concept of balance. Great lore (even though sometimes the amount of exposition being dumped on you was crazy, it was always organic). Realism is hard to pull off writing-wise. Kinda silly, so what ? Burns Flipper is a caricature character, as is his name, yet he works.

Roper Clacks was defeated by a calculator. Great, never really focused on her position in society. TLJ had this kind of stuff as well, but it didn't have an agenda to tell you April landlord's was a lesbian. A far less naive Dreamfall: Chapters is cringe as hell, and not just because it has SJW/far left stuff, it's how moralizing and dull is the way it's presented. Sure it was naive, but works dont have to be super realistic and ridden with complex politics or struggle. But that's part of the reason why TLJ was so revered. A lot of game was - like I've mentioned - fairy tale-ish, had quite a few black/white cliche moments and no real edginess.

Dreamfall chapters romance