#syberia game

[eattherude713]

Started playing Syberia. Again. This game series is so underrated. Benoit Sokal did a beautiful job on these. I wish more people knew about it.

[deterioratedapartments]

Syberia (2002)

[enfinizatics]

kate truly fighting for her life while trying to make oscar set off that damn train LMFAO

[goneadrift]

Oh gosh, who hung this dude up here??

Daaamn, where are his feet?!👀

What in fullmetal boys is going on here?

[elliotchen-apologist]

syberia backgrounds

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[pointclickadventure]

Syberia (2002)

Syberia is a graphic adventure game, developed and published by Microïds, and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox on 9 January 2002, with the game later ported for Windows Mobile, Nintendo DS, Android, OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, and Nintendo Switch in later years.

Kate Walker, a young ambitious lawyer from New York, is handed what seems a fairly straight forward assignment - a quick stopover to handle the sale of an old automaton factory hidden in the alpine valleys, then straight back home to the US.

Little did she imagine when embarking on this task that her life would be turned upside down. On her expedition across Europe, traveling from Western Europe to the far reaches of Eastern Russia.

She encounters a host of incredible characters and locations in her attempt to track down Hans, the genius inventor - the final key to unlock the mystery of Syberia.

Her voyage across land and time throws all she values into question, while the deal she sets out to sign turns into a pact with destiny

[jaebird88]

Finished Syberia. What an odd little adventure. And it probably could have been completed sooner if I hadn’t been stumped at times in the order of operations for the puzzles.

[blog-news-laoshu]

Syberia 5 jest nadal możliwa, mimo że Benoit Sokal nie żyje | GRYOnline.pl

[danielcalmdown]

aalmost done with few drawings of kim, then i will get to harry wips B)

btw i just finished second play through n at the veery end harry for the first time initiates touch, putting his hand on kim's shoulder. I totes missed that first time i played, a nice touch. i think it indicates he got out of his head a bit. the dialogues about obvious plans for more story are painful tho... i want it already broo robert where tf are you, be active on socials like neil gaiman, that would be so good... give us some hope at last

[cupcraft]

Little gamer poll for games I've played and really want to know if I have friends here in these old PC games pleek

[plainmoth]

Here's another sign of life from me! I actually wanted to post something the other day, but for some unknown reason I couldn't upload my work... So here's a new tempter!

[ettadunham]

inon zur, the man you are.

is this cheating? maybe. possibly. probably.

okay, so context. i have been doing this thing where i play a random adventure game spit out by a random generator program i created (because i'm a nerd). as a result, every now and then, you'll find a short write-up about some weird obscure little video game on my tumblr blog. it's just one of the many things that you have to put up with if you decided to follow me for whatever reason. sorry.

then one day, said randomizer spit out syberia 3, and let me tell you, i was delighted! this was the first time i had a game i already played on my list, so obviously, this meant a replay. but not just any replay. i now had to replay the entire series! obviously.

is this what i've done for other games that came up before? no. but you guys don't understand.

syberia is my special little guy.

syberia 1 and 2 are not only largely the reason for my long-lasting obsession with adventure games, they have arguably raised me. i am the human person i am today because i played syberia while listening to complicated by avril lavigne when i was 12. these are the foundations and building blocks of my personality. everything that's wrong with me comes back down to this.

so, yeah. to say that i was excited to get back to this one is a slight understatement. i was vibrating on a frequency previously undetected in human physiology.

i also start with all this to emphasize that, yeah. i have my rose-tinted nostalgia glasses on when it comes to these games. that doesn't mean i don't have my criticisms, especially looking at the game today, but... i cannot not love syberia. it's just science.

i should probably talk about the game itself at some point though, right? i can't just assume that the one person reading this (i see you! hey! thank you <3) is as familiar with the ins and outs of voralberg automatons as i am. so, let's do a synopsis.

syberia is a 2002 point-and-click game about a lawyer named kate walker, who hyperfixate on her work mission to find an old man a bit too much, while going on a train adventure with an autistic-coded automaton named oscar. hijinks ensue!

the game was designed by french developer benoît sokal (rip, king) as a follow-up to his previous game, amerzone. as a kid, i have played through all of his games i could get my hands on, but it's been a while, so i can't quite tell you how much those hold up. from what i remember, he definitely liked his adventurer protags... as well as some potentially questionable depictions of made-up indigenous people.

...let's circle back to that after syberia 2.

but yeah, while we're here, let's actually get some of my criticisms out of the way. this is a game from 2002 written by a french dude and... you could say that it's of its time among other things. for instance the man kate is looking for is mentally disabled, and the game is a bit too liberal in its use of the 'r' word to describe him. (and yes, it was considered an offensive and derogatory term in 2002 too, people were just more inclined to use it back then.)

there are other aspects of the game that one might critique as well, that i mostly find charming. the dialogue is at times clunky (almost as if it was written by someone whose native language is not english...), but the voice actors do a nice job adding character (and possibly tweaking their lines just enough) that it absolutely works on me to this day. it's a little wacky, a little silly, the puzzles sometimes require some pixel hunting, but that's just how these games work!

this one also had the cocktail puzzle, which, in my opinion, is one of the best in the entire series. it really has everything! when i become super rich, i'm going to build that cocktail machine in my house.

other highlights of the game include the big communist boi looming over you in komkolzgrad and just... any other automaton or mechanical machinery in the game. including your train, obviously.

the overall aesthetics of the game? immaculate! i want all my devices to work with a wind up mechanism now.

the one thing though that, in my opinion, truly elevates syberia over its contemporaries is its music. god, the music!!! most people might be familiar with inon zur through his scores for games like the later fallout or dragon age games, but to me, he's always gonna be the guy who went so insanely hard for this somewhat niche little adventure game series.

his score coupled with the automaton designs and the beautiful scenery? absolutely breathtaking. prettier than any modern game.

in conclusion: kate walker, call me!

EDIT: as it was just pointed out to me by @greyaged, the first syberia game was actually scored by nicholas varley and dimitri bodiansky, and only from syberia 2 onwards did inon zur become the series' main composer. needless to say that they all did a fantastic job, but i definitely want to give an extra shout out to varley and bodiansky here, now that i know that they were the ones responsible for this particular game's score. the tracks and motifs they introduce here carry over to zur's scores, and they definitely cement syberia's legacy as a game series with one of the most memorable video game soundtracks in my book. <3

[katewalker]

Yesterday during the Pégases ceremony (French equivalent of the Game Awards, but with no money, no ads and blessedly no Geoff Keighley), Microïds announced the remake of Benoît Sokal's very first adventure/puzzle game "Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy" released in 1999. The remake is set to be released later this year. Here's a first look at the game as well as a reveal trailer. The game can already be wishlisted on Steam, and will be available for PS5, XBOX Series X|S, as well as other PC game distribution services.

[enfinizatics]

currently sobbing while reading’s anna journal. i wanted to just play syberia the world before but then i decided against it, i’d miss so much lore. god, this game is going to take me AGES to finish, i just want to know all of the details of this silly little world.

[goneadrift]

i gave him legs so he could walk out of my life? 💔 typical 🥺

[elliotchen-apologist]

syberia backgrounds

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