![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of this has to do with the atmosphere – although there’s nothing amazing about the graphics from a technical standpoint, both worlds are gorgeously designed, with each of the cities possessing their own unique architecture and color palette. For other series, this hasn’t always worked well, but Dreamfall remarkably pulls it off. Like so many other adventure games, Dreamfall sheds the point-and-click interface and 2D graphics, and replaces it with direct control in a fully 3D environment. Her arc doesn’t have remotely the same impact if you haven’t played the original, and so she may just come off as overtly stand-offish. And then there’s April herself, no longer bubbly, and having long grown embittered with her life in Arcadia and the fallout from the ending of the first game. Other returning characters include fellow Shifter Brian Westhouse and former nemesis Roper Klacks (now a reformed potion salesman), who both play minor but welcome roles. Crow, too, makes a comeback as the wisecracking sidekick and, more or less, comes off as a bit less annoying. Charlie and Emma, the friends that we spent a considerable amount of time with during the opening hours of The Longest Journey, only to be more or less abandoned as the story progressed, are still baffled and depressed over the mysterious loss of April. Venice, once a burgeoning, beautiful college town, is now nothing more than a rainy depressing trash heap. One of the coolest things in Dreamfall is seeing how locations and characters have changed in the 10 years between the two games. ![]() ![]() Technically Dreamfall‘s plot stands alone, but there are a lot of characters from the first game, and their presence doesn’t make much sense unless you’ve played it. Zoë deepens further into the conspiracy and learns more of the links between the worlds, April begins a quest of personal discovery, and Kian learns the error of his people’s ways. Eventually the stories of the three converge into one. There are only few segments where you play as him, and he seems to exist mostly to provide shades of grey in the battle between Marcuria and Azadi. Compared to Zoë and April, Kian isn’t nearly as fleshed out, nor does he have much of a personality. As it turns out, April believes that there’s nothing she needs to be “saved” from and wants little to do with her.Īcross the lands of Arcadia, a third character is introduced – Kian, an apostle who questions his empire’s motivations. She’s confused to find Zoë, who’s been transported to Arcadia without Shifting, and Zoë is equally as surprised to find the same April Ryan mentioned by the mysterious little girl. For reasons she can’t fully comprehend, she can no longer Shift between worlds, and even her participation in the rebellion is more out of self-destruction than loyalty to her people. April is the secret leader of the rebel movement, and she’s changed quite a bit from the last game. The city of Marcuria is under occupation by an outside force called the Azadi, imposing their religion on its reluctant people and criminalizing magic. Meanwhile, Arcadia isn’t exactly in the best shape. Zoë, however, learns she is a “Dreamer”, and using this product will mysteriously transport her to Arcadia without needing to Shift. Her quest sends her back to Venice in Newport to discover WATICorp’s yet-to-be revealed product – “Dreamtime”, an entertainment product that allows people to experience fully lucid dreams, completely under their control. Things start getting freaky when she has persistent visions of a young girl whispering at her to: “Find and save April Ryan.” If that weren’t creepy enough, Reza has gone missing during an investigation of WATI, a huge corporation working on several technological breakthroughs. For reasons she’s can’t quite explain, she’s found herself losing a sense of purpose, breaking up with her boyfriend Reza and dropping out of college, spending her days aimlessly lounging around her father’s house in the city of Casablanca. In 2006, seven years after its release, Funcom released Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, for both the PC and Xbox.ĭreamfall begins 10 years after the end of its predecessor and initially focuses on a young woman named Zoë Castillo. The Longest Journey had a fairly satisfying conclusion, but given the depth of the world it was clear that Tørnquist had plenty more stories to tell. ![]()
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