Syberia
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Player's Review
'A journey of discovery and understanding, inspired from a bygone era…
Kate Walker, a young and brilliant lawyer from New York, has come to Europe to negotiate the purchase a famous Robot/Toy factory, but will soon have her future completely turned upside down…
The owner of the factory, Anna Voralberg, has just died. The Heir to the factory, Anna's brother, Hans, who is a genius inventor, has been missing for decades; lost somewhere between the Alps and Siberia… Kathe must find this enigmatic man to finalise the deal. But, in her journey from the West to the East, she will progressively discover and understand the reasons, which have made Hans, leave his family and never return.'
The Nintendo DS port is actually a severely watered down version of the original game on XBOX, PS2 and other platforms. Many interactions with items, as well as most of the secondary sidestories, were removed for unknown reasons, especially the one where Kate receives phone calls from her fiancé. One may think that's due to hardware limitations, but considering the handheld also got ports of many other adventure games similar to this one e.g. the Secret Files saga, to me it sounds like an excuse from the port developers to hide the fact they didn't play the original themselves before making this.
The only unlockable stuff here are cutscenes that are already shown in the longplay, under the Gallery option. Definitely a port you should avoid if you want to experience the game in its entirety, without any compromises made for no reason.
0:00:00 - Start
0:00:56 - Chapter 1: Valadilene
1:05:04 - Chapter 2: Barrockschtadt
2:17:39 - Chapter 3: Kalmkozkov
2:59:07 - Chapter 4: Aralbad
3:23:54 - Chapter 5: Return to Komkolzgrad
3:32:47 - Final chapter: Return to Aralbad
3:40:24 - Ending & credits
Kate Walker, a young and brilliant lawyer from New York, has come to Europe to negotiate the purchase a famous Robot/Toy factory, but will soon have her future completely turned upside down…
The owner of the factory, Anna Voralberg, has just died. The Heir to the factory, Anna's brother, Hans, who is a genius inventor, has been missing for decades; lost somewhere between the Alps and Siberia… Kathe must find this enigmatic man to finalise the deal. But, in her journey from the West to the East, she will progressively discover and understand the reasons, which have made Hans, leave his family and never return.'
The Nintendo DS port is actually a severely watered down version of the original game on XBOX, PS2 and other platforms. Many interactions with items, as well as most of the secondary sidestories, were removed for unknown reasons, especially the one where Kate receives phone calls from her fiancé. One may think that's due to hardware limitations, but considering the handheld also got ports of many other adventure games similar to this one e.g. the Secret Files saga, to me it sounds like an excuse from the port developers to hide the fact they didn't play the original themselves before making this.
The only unlockable stuff here are cutscenes that are already shown in the longplay, under the Gallery option. Definitely a port you should avoid if you want to experience the game in its entirety, without any compromises made for no reason.
0:00:00 - Start
0:00:56 - Chapter 1: Valadilene
1:05:04 - Chapter 2: Barrockschtadt
2:17:39 - Chapter 3: Kalmkozkov
2:59:07 - Chapter 4: Aralbad
3:23:54 - Chapter 5: Return to Komkolzgrad
3:32:47 - Final chapter: Return to Aralbad
3:40:24 - Ending & credits
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