Dreamfall Chapters - PS4

ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: 5-5-2017
Moby Score (1-10): 6.7
Genre(s): Adventure, Puzzle elements, Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi, Compilation, Fantasy, 3rd-person (Other), Graphic adventure, Point and select, Direct control
Media Type(s): Physical

The Final Cut is the remastered special edition of Dreamfall Chapters — an award-winning adventure spanning multiple worlds and playable characters. The Final Cut combines all five episodes into one story, with reworked character designs, an expanded soundtrack, remastered audio and new dialogue, improved art, lighting and animations, and new special features.

Dreamfall Chapters is a stand-alone story in The Longest Journey saga; a narrative third-person 3D adventure set in the twin worlds of science and magic. Embark on an amazing and emotional journey across Stark and Arcadia in a setting that mixes dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi with magical fantasy. Play as Zoë Castillo, a young woman seeking answers to her own identity; Kian Alvane, a disgraced Apostle and assassin seeking redemption; and Saga, a mysterious child trapped in a house between worlds. Experience an engaging story about choices and consequences, dreams and reality, magic and science, chaos and order, and the three people whose actions will shape the course of history — in all worlds.

Key Features

▪ Experience a deep and emotional storyline that concludes the The Longest Journey saga — an award-winning narrative the New York Times called “compelling” and “terrific”

▪ Play the complete story in The Final Cut — remastered, reworked, recut, with redesigned character models, updated lighting and special effects, and enhanced audio. Includes an expanded soundtrack, remastered dialogue and revamped sound design

â–ª Brand new special features, including playable deleted scenes, a concept art gallery and character profiles

â–ª Shape the story and the course of your journey through your choices and actions, and live with the surprising and often devastating consequences

â–ª Explore beautiful, rich, detailed and original worlds that combine a stunning cyberpunk vision of the future with magical fantasy, along with a broken and decaying dreamscape

Dreamfall Chapters is a direct sequel to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and it is the third game in the adventure game series. It was in part funded through a crowd funding campaign, and was released in five separate books over time (each divided into several chapters):

• Book One: Reborn
• Book Two: Rebels
• Book Three: Realms
• Book Four: Revelations
• Book Five: Redux

Every newly released book was patched into the same game.

The story continues from the cliffhanger of the last game, and reintroduces the playable characters of Zoë Castillo and Kian Alvane, living in the twin-worlds Stark and Arcadia respectively. Stark represents a futuristic version of the technological world we live in, while Arcadia is a parallel world where magic exists. Additionally, during the occasional interlude the player takes control of a third character, Saga, as she passes through different stages of her life. A big chunk of the action happens in the cities of Europolis (more specifically its Propast district), in Stark, which covers most of central Europe, and Marcuria, in Arcadia, which was also present in The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. These two main locations are open and can be explored freely until the player decides to move the story forward. Other places, such as Storytime or the House of All Worlds, are either linear or simply smaller.

Dreamfall Chapters focuses on storytelling and pathing based on player choices. The player makes decisions that affect the fates of other characters. These choices affect the gameplay in later chapters. One of these choices affects Zoë's storyline already in the first chapter as she takes on different jobs and thus meets different characters. Unlike many other adventure games, it does not rely heavily on combining items in the inventory to solve puzzles, even though there is a small inventory system where items can be examined or used in the environment. Instead Zoë mostly needs to do errands such as bringing information or items to other characters. The game is however very dialogue-focused, and much of the information about the world is told through conversations. Characters can move around freely in the game world using direct control. The camera offers free rotation and zooming. Point-and-click is used to examine items or interact with the environment. The cursors often snaps slightly to certain elements while moving it around to help the player determine where interaction is possible. When multiple actions are available a wheel is shown where icons represent the different options. During conversations different options are shown as words. By hovering the cursor over them, Zoë provides a preview of what it represents.

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