It’s been almost a decade since the ending of the previous installment left us with an abrupt cliffhanger while making us eager for more ventures of Zoë Castillo.

Ever since then, the future of Dreamfall was uncertain, with Funcom shifting its focus to online games before finally being salvaged with successful Kickstarter funding. So how does the first episode hold up after all those production perils and is it a worthy successor of the Dreamfall series?

For those of you who just tuned in and are unfamiliar with its predecessor (shame on you!), this story-driven adventure game takes place in two worlds, technology-infused Stark and magical land of Arcadia. Our heroine Zoë will start the journey by investigating the disappearance of her ex-boyfriend Reza Temiz, before unraveling a global conspiracy led by Japanese toy manufacturer WATIcorp. As you would assume, their real focus is far from making toys for kids and more on delivering a new, vastly damaging lucid dreaming drug to the market, something which will have dire consequences on both Stark and Arcadia in later events. Slowly you are introduced to new characters and find yourself jumping between worlds following the WATIcorp trail before realizing how small of a cog in a story they are and that much more is at stake.

The story picks up several months after the Longest Journey ending with Zoë still being stuck in a Storytime limbo. It is an otherworldly realm now swarming with Dreamachine addicts and other trapped souls. Following the gloomy finale in The Longest Journey, WATIcorp has gained even more power and influence by openly selling dream consoles from previous game labeled now as “Dreamachines”, a device marketed as a tool for enhancing lucid dreaming while making most of its users highly addicted in the process. You will get to witness that side effect firsthand while roaming through the streets of Europolis later, tripping over many of its comatose inhabitants in street corners.

At first, you will get a glimpse of storyline by helping other trapped souls and Dreamachine addicts in Storytime and later reconciling with our old mysterious friend Vagabond, who will inform us that both of the worlds of Stark and Arcadia are in great danger and Zoë’s help is needed once again. Before finding ourselves in Stark again, the game will briefly reunite us with another familiar face Kian Alvane, where we also learn more about his fate after the events in The Longest Journey. Along with Zoë, he is one of the three playable characters in the first episode of Chapters (I don’t want to spoil who the third protagonist is but let’s just say it is someone who I found quite charming and took me completely by surprise).

Seeing how this episode mostly acts as something to entice new and returning players of Dreamfall, I can understand the lack of challenging puzzles in game for the most part. Usually you will find yourself merely repeating what the game asks of you or just combining items on few occasions but sadly that’s all there is to it. Luckily, that would probably be the only flaw that you might see in game, since everything else has been polished to the perfection. From the soothing scenery of Storytime (but only if we ignore that nightmarish wardrobe with slimy tentacles coming out of it) to the luminous and lively streets of Europolis – it is quite clear at first glance to where most of the love for the game went.

Some older fans of Dreamfall might be displeased with the new voice actor for Zoë Castillo but frankly, that is something you might notice if you finished the previous game in the series only recently. And I assure you, beside that minor change the game does not hold back when it comes to delivering some quality voice acting. I can safely say that now we have a strong contender for one of the most adorable voices for a repair bot in video games ever.

Speaking of Europolis, it is one of the few locations in first episode where you will spend most of the time and for a good reason. The whole city is gorgeously designed, highlighting the contrast between rich and poor on every corner. One moment you might find yourself gazing at the beautiful skyscrapers in Sonnenschein Plaza before stumbling over one of the many slumbering Dreamachine junkies. And let’s not forget our old pals from EYE, a global police agency who will watch over your every move, creeping on you and thousands of other citizens in Europolis.

In most games and movies, I always found the inclusion of lens flare nothing more than a cheap gimmick and what developers tend to incorporate when they run out of any other creative additions. But in this context, it is a feature which works incredibly well and adds something new to the whole dreamy (wink wink) undertone of the game. Dreamfall Chapters also does a remarkable job in pushing the capabilities of Unity engine to the sheer limits. Often i found myself going on short breaks from whatever game was asking me to do and decide to take an excessive number of screenshots instead. Even some seemingly bland section such as medieval prison complex makes up for an interesting and enjoyable location in the game.

Another thing on what developers focused more in Dreamfall Chapters are choices. Just like in a certain Telltale’s post-apocalyptic zombie game, you will now be notified with a large text prompt whenever you make an important decision while having an option to see the percentage of selected choices from other players online which might significantly help you in making a decision. The real question here is will these decisions result in greater variety, establishing a different image of the world for each player or are they nothing more than templates merely guiding us to one of the few prearranged endings of the game. For now, I believe it could go either way. One of my decisions in prologue during the second playthrough resulted in having a completely different job and doing business with a new key NPC once I found myself in Europolis again. Every other choice implied we might only see possible results of them in upcoming episode(s), especially when I played with Kian Alvane. To be fair, I am still a bit skeptical on how my choice between pork sausages or cheese soup for boyfriend’s dinner might leave a significant impact on the future of both worlds but i guess only time will tell.

So to conclude, despite the serious lack of challenge in puzzles and relatively short length (although this point might prove invalid later with the release of new episodes), Dreamfall Chapters is quite deserving of your attention. With its superb voice acting, stunning locations and captivating story which will only leave you counting down the weeks for the release of the next episode, I will say we have a rewarding sequel for the Longest Journey. After an intro as good as this one, it’s hard not to expect only the best from the next episode.

The thing about stories and settings, in modern-day fiction, is that there's very little room for innovation or unique ideas to craft worlds without feeling like it's something we've seen before but executed differently.
I'm the kinda of person who loves stories that are self-contained without being treated as a brand that inevitably needs to be pumped for money, or more sequels, faster than an OD'ing alcoholic solely for the sake of the former, and not so much for doing something new with the subject matter.
The thing is; A good sequel uses the original as a jump-point to take features, mechanics, things that worked the first time around into new and interesting directions -- whereas a bad sequel merely wallows in the original like a pig in a pond of its own feces.

Dreamfall/The Longest Journey, as a brand, with its setting, with its story, and as a sequel to Dreamfall, is dynamic, unique and breathtaking.
It's been a long in the making but the continuation of Zoe Castillo and Kian's stories of 2006's DreamfalL: The Longest Journey is finally here, regrettably in episodic format but what can you do, right? 8 years has it been since we left off from where Dreamfall ended, which ironically ended in the precise kind of manner I remotely despise about games, as I mentioned a few paragraphs above. Calling it a cliffhanger would be an understatement but it's been so long now that any feelings that have might been on the questionable ending has long passed and replaced with a sense of "Reconcilliation" or "Rebirth" as the first chapter of the overall experience is titled (or Book One if you will).

Chapters make no comprises here. It starts off directly from where the first Dreamfall left off, giving that eerie sensation that it litterally hasn't been 8 years, but both the player and Zoe seems to think so at least, judging from her elaborate inner monlogueging at least. Before we are treated to Zoe, we are presented with a summarization of what has happened, and the world itself -- In Dreamfall there exist two worlds, Arcadia (the world of magic and dreams) & Stark, our world in a distatnt futuristic-dystopian-cyberpunk-inspired-23rd-century-state. This is what seperates the franchise from truly being labeled sci-fi. fantasy, or just generally be restricted by any genre, which gives a lot of free-roam for telling a fantastical story with exostic characters.

As soon as that is out of the way we are shortly introduced to a scene that showcases the sounds of a birth taking place, a scene that will make sense if one considers the scene that came right before it, which I'll avoid elaborating on due to its spoilery content, for those who've played the previous games but not this one yet -- Let's just say that it all alludes to the title of "Rebirth" as a soothing female narration will point out.
It's interesting to note that during the story, there are words that seem to reccur again and again, like reconciliation & remembering, mostly in regards to Zoë's current condition, but consider these words and one will find they mean the same. It goes back to namely; Rebirth, the state of starting anew and building upon the old to create something new.

Book One is the story of Rebirth for both Zoe Castillo and co-protagonist Kian Alvane (now voiced by Nicholas Boulton, known for voicing Hawke in DA2), and as all these introductory scenes come together we find ourselves in the company of our heroine, Zoe Castillo -- She's still in a coma and even worse, she's stuck in a limbo called Storytime, where all stories goes to die, as does hers. Having somewhat come to terms with her dire situation, Zoe has garnered a purpose in this netherrealm between worlds, as she's gained powers to manipulate the fabrics of Dreams and thus she utilizes them to guide dreamers who's lost their way, and help them find their way back to reality.

Meanwhile, in the world of Arcadia, Kian has found himself facing execution after being convicted as a traitor to his people for things he did not commit in the last game. Memory doesn't serve me too well in regards to Dreamfall with everything, but Nicholas Boulton's voice acting adds that needed sense of despair to a broken man, who's been betrayed and lost so much. It's actually a quite welcoming take on the character with the new voice, but he's not alone, as Zoe's voice is also quite different.
Kian, however, soon find himself being rescued by an enigmatic stranger with an eyepatch, who also briefly appeared in the beginning intro cutscene -- He reassures that Kian's story won't end here as he's somehow REALLY important to a revolution that is going on in his homeland and he's the key to turn the tide. It's safe to say that while it is seemingly uncertain how this relates to Zoë's adventure yet, it mostly likely will intertwine with hers in future episodes.

Back to Zoe, after having helped a few, poor, lost souls escape their nightmares, she soon find herself being embolded to return to her world, by a mysterious being returning from the last game, called The Vagabond. He reassures Zoë that her story has not yet ended and by returning to the real world she'll have a fighting chance against whatever it is that threatens dreams and everything we hold dear.
This is where the meat of Book One begins -- Chapters is largely reflected upon the dialogue choices you makes, specifically one 'major' choice that will change the kind of person Zoe might become as she wakes up again. This is a choice you make prior to this.

Moving on from the premise and into the functions of the dialogue that I've been mentioning just now; The occasional dialogue decisions you make are rather well seggregated, and they are written as such not to cater to any pretentious moral compass. It's more or less as dredged in various idealogious, reflections of states of mind, that all seemingly makes sense in regards to either Zoe or Kian's characterization. No choice feel preposterous or even out of character which adds complexity and thus a more fulfilling and engaging experience. It's something I feel developers like BioWare, Sucker Punch, 2k or other developers who've dabbled in awful moral choice system mechanics, never seem to capture quite well.
Both Zoë and Kian each have a short inner monologue for every choice you can pick, to truly draw the player into the character's mindset and be able to pick which response seems most appropriate, considering each circumstance.
It feels more or less like a neat marriage between the dialogue systems of a few noteworth RPGs like Deus Ex or Witcher, where the moral ambiguity of the Witcher and the easy-to-monitor paraphrasing of Deus Ex's systems come great together. It's gratifying to see that the quality of The Longest Journey franchise's writing is still there, and it shines just as bright with the new addition of a dialogue system for the first time ever in the franchise.

The writing being solid as it is only helps complimenting the ongoing process of bringing life to the world of Stark, as you're in the position to roam around the city of Propast -- A cyberpunk, dystopic, metropolitan, totalitarian soceity, where the affluence of Cyberpunk & George Orwell really kicks in -- Corruption, conspiracies, surveillance everywhere, guard operatives enforcing their authority, junkies, the scum of the underworld, political intrigue etc. It's all of the things I really love from dystopic/cyberpunk/noir narratives mixed into one delicious cocktail.

I'm running short of characters, so I'll sum up some thoughts here -- Chapters is what I'd consider a successful kickstarter that delivers, and only truly fails with it being an episodic game, puzzles being a bit simple and choices more or less feeling like a retread of the pretentiousness of Telltale that amounts to nothing. Each dialogue option however feels intuitive, the world feels alive, the characters are great, writing solid...

I really enjoyed playing the first episode of this game. As always, when you like something you want to continue doing it and now I'm really looking forward to the upcoming parts. Of course I would have loved if all parts were there for me to play already - just like I would like to start to watch and read the rest of the Game of Thrones/Song of Ice of Fire series, or play Kentucky Route Zero to the end. But my anticipation of upcoming episodes and the possible frustration with the episodic nature of any of these is not a fault on their part, but rather the result of being awesome stories.

Dreamfall Chapters is much like the original Dreamfall, a highly enjoyable story in amazing settings with a high focus on dialogue and somewhat less on gameplay and controls. To be fair, the gameplay is much better than in the original Dreamfall, but still nowhere near as good as the story ... (The only hiccup I've found is the totally unnecessary "algae-puzzle" in one of the possible story lines, where you have to steer a robot with really lousy controls in a puzzle that is not the least challenging except to your patience.)

Europolice, the largest setting is simply amazing. It's huge, beautiful and full of pulse. Going on exploration on your own, besides achieving the necessary goals, is totally worth it. It takes some time to learn to find your way around, but there is a clever (and fun) map system embedded in the gameplay that will get you started. Some of the dialogue between non playable characters you can listen to but not interact with. Still it gives you clues as to what's going on in the city and adds to the feeling of being in a live environment.

The game is much about decisions and consequences, and though a lot of the consequences are yet to be revealed I like how you are warned and reminded of that your choices matter. The major decision points are marked by a symbol representing "The Balance", so you can think before you jump. But one time I accidentally triggered a choice before I realized that there was one. Fortunately it was late in the game so I can quite easily replay to make a real decision.

For longer replays the save game system is not great. Your decisions are stored, and the ones you made in your last play through will be the one you keep for the next book. To keep my original decisions even after playing the game again, I have to locate a time stamped save slot from near the end of my first attempt. (Or copy the saved state to a different folder on my computer.) It would be great if you could name your different plays and shift between them inside the game.

All in all it's a great start of a probably great game. I really recommend it.

Gorgeous game, but even further removed from TLJ than Dreamfall was.

My biggest problem is that there is no gameplay. The first few stages have a couple puzzles that feel like tutorials for bigger ones that come later, but then it just becomes one big talk-fest mixed in with fetch item/walk around town.

Now the original, The Longest Jouney, had a ton of puzzles, even if they were inventory-based. Dreamfall less so, but still enough to feel like you're playing a game. This one, on the other hand, is just dialogue and character development (?). Decisions, how they affect you, etc.

I don't know if it's meant to be like this, and the next chapter will deliver on these decisions, but for now this was sorely disappointing.

Otherwise: visuals, music, environments are great.
Dialogue and voice-acting are usually good, but sometimes a bit off. They do go on and on, though.

Apart from some extremely annoying bugs and performance issues (which should be fixed rather soon) this is a great sequel to Dreamfall and a great game in itself. My only complaint is that it's a bit too short for a first episode.

This is amazing. The story, the setting, the characters, everything is simply divine. Buy this game this instant if you haven't done that already.

Over eight years have passed since Funcom published Dreamfall, a sequel to the acclaimed point-and-click adventure game, The Longest Journey. The sad news was that Dreamfall failed to sell enough to make any established publishers interested in resurrecting the franchise and all hope for a sequel seemed lost. With the advent of crowd-funding, Ragnar Tornquist (writer/director of all TLJ games) created a new studio (Red Thread Games), seized the opportunity and launched a Kickstarter to build the conclusion to Zoe Castillo’s story.

After smashing their initial target, ecstatic fans (including yours truly) settled into another long wait with excitement and enthusiasm, along with trepidation and fear that the game may not live up to nostalgic expectations. Red Thread Games have already proven these fears unfounded. If you loved Dreamfall, you will fall in love all over again with Chapters. I expect the reverse is also true though, and haters or non-fans of the former will not be wooed by the latter.

For those of you who haven’t yet played Dreamfall and the first cutscene of Chapters, I’d recommend exercising caution as spoilers are ahead.

When you launch Chapters for the first time, there is a newly minted recap of the previous game available; Highly recommended if it’s been a while since you last visited the worlds of Arcadia and Stark.

Upon beginning a new game, the prologue begins almost immediately after the final moments and frustrating climax (see: cliffhanger) of Dreamfall, refreshing us on the situations the playable characters are in.

We see April Ryan’s funeral ceremony, presumably indicating that she did in fact die, apparently ending the debates floating around various internet forums post-Dreamfall. That being said, let’s be realistic. There’s no way she won’t be featured at some point later on. Dreamfall may be Zoe’s story, but The Longest Journey is April’s – and it’s not yet complete.

Zoe is still in her coma, and has become a guardian to those trapped in the “Dreamtime”, within nightmares they can’t escape from brought on by using ubiquitous “Dream Machines”.Kian Alvane is languishing in prison with his execution looming, sentenced for betraying his kin during the latter stages of Dreamfall.

Chapters then gives first control of the player to Zoe, trapped in “Dreamtime”, helping others while musing on the state of her corporeal body. Book One offers the first two chapters of the overall story and a short interlude before coming to an end all too quickly.

The length of the episode is a double-edged sword: a cause for frustration and anticipation. After many years of waiting for any scrap of news about development, then development itself, Book One is then over in roughly four hours. However, given the developers have stated this is the shortest of the five Books, the game should be well over 20 hours by the time it is complete. That’s as much as I was hoping for – the length of a season of television or similar long-form storytelling.

The writing and dialogue are top notch in the given medium. The lines are snappy, and the characters themselves are ever relatable and unique. The Europolis portion of the first chapter is deeply political and although set far into the future, is (like much good Sci-Fi) more relevant than ever and tackles issues of authoritarianism and corporatocracy with Orwellian overtones.

As the player reaches certain junctions and crossroads during the story, you are given various choices with seemingly important and varying consequences. At this stage, apart from one fairly major branch in the initial chapter, how choices effect the game remains to be seen.

I imagine it’s causing many headaches from a design perspective to plan and write for all the different story branches that have already been opened up from the choices made (ideally moving away from norm in games whereby different choices ultimately result in exactly the same outcomes). I’m cautiously awaiting how these are addressed later on. I suppose my skepticism is due to the fact no game has so far accomplished what Red Thread are trying to achieve. Fingers crossed.

The core gameplay of Chapters is fairly similar to its’ predecessor, with third-person movement and control, interacting with objects in the environment and with the numerous, lengthy cutscenes rendered in-game. The combat and stealth sections of the original Dreamfall are gone, to the disappointment of absolutely noone who played the previous game. They were ♥♥♥♥ing atrocious and I breathed a sigh of relief to know they’re gone.

It’s hard to judge much of the gameplay of Dreamfall Chapters just yet, given that Book One serves as a tutorial and a foundation of what is to come. It would be unfair of me at this stage to level too much criticism on puzzle elements, but I’ll have more to say on these elements in future reviews. Book One simply gives the player a crash course with interacting with items, the interface and the game world. Given my past experience, all initial puzzles were a breeze and I was never stuck trying to figure something out. For the most part, I moved effortlessly from point to point eager to advance the story.

As far as the technical side of the game goes, it’s not always sunshine and roses. The Unity engine is at the core of the game, with awesome visuals thanks to the hard work of the Red Thread team, but with the warts and lesions of an emergent platform more suited to mobile games on a smaller scale. Especially in Europolis, performance issues plagued the experience. Even running a GTX 970 and a powerful Intel processor, I barely managed 30 FPS with dips below 15. The area looks nice – but not THAT nice.

Apparently (since I played) the developers have already made sweeping improvements to overall performance and stability, but as Europolis is the largest and most ambitious game area ever created in Unity it’s no surprise that it’s causing issues in playability and performance. This detracted significantly from my immersion during these sections, and I’m hoping that when we revisit Europolis in later chapters we can look forward to a much smoother ride.

On a lighter note, just as we’re accustomed to from previous games, the voice acting and music are superb. The actors do a fine job bringing the script to life, often times better than in previous games. My main gripe is that the characters in-game have poor facial animations and visual delivery of lines hasn’t improved much from 2006’s Dreamfall. I often found myself looking away from the screen during prolonged conversations and absorbing the material as if it were a novel or script, rather than subjecting myself to the uncanny-valley visuals of the stiff models in-game.

I enjoyed my time with Book One, although it was far too brief. If the developers can maintain consistency in writing and design interesting/challenging puzzles, I’ll be happy. However, performance improvements are vital to improve the overall experience and I’d love to see more attention given to facial animations and expressions. Dreamfall Chapters is approaching greatness but it’s not quite there yet.

It’s early days yet and I can’t wait for more.

Continues from the great adventure game that is Dreamfall. Hard to tell from this first part if it will live up to the high expectations. As usual, great music. Graphics are pretty but not always run smoothly. Not much gameplay though. Don't bother if you haven't played Dreamfall (or didn't like it).

really continues on the older games- and keeps you pinned with an active choice/consequence engine. Careful, though, even if you have a high end graphics card some ares will tax it to hell. Turning down the settings will make it usable on a much lower spec machine though.

Also, Zoe is the best protagonist, let alone best female protagonist

I'll try and keep this updated as the new Books are released, but no promises.

If you played both The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, you're in for a treat! Book One is only about 4 hours long, but it provides a nice intro to the game world and provides a refresher video on the story so far on the initial run of the game. There's even some closure in the opening cutscene of April Ryan's fate from the end of Dreamfall, but I'm sure she'll turn up at some point or another later on.

The gameplay is the same as in the original Dreamfall, minus the horrendous stealth and combat: you explore the world in third-person perspective and interact with objects and NPCs to complete puzzles, which are fairly easy but I'm sure there will be more difficult ones as new Books are released. The internal monologues that accompany the choices in the game don't adhere to a strict moral alignment, but that allows you to pick the best response to fit the current situation. At certain points you have to make a major choice that will affect the outcome of the story in later Books; the first of these is made just before Zoe leaves the Storytime and the result is seen shortly afterwards, but any larger repercussions of this choice have yet to be made manifest.

The voice acting is superb and so is the dialogue. The facial expressions are a little stiff, but it doesn't detract from the overall experience at all. The music is, as expected, just a delight to listen to and is one of the sole reasons why you should get the Special Edition. The artwork is amazing, don't get me wrong, but I could listen to the soundtrack non-stop and never get bored of it.

The city of Propast in Europolis, where most of the gameplay in Book One takes place, is absolutely stunning. Most of the performance issues mentioned in other reviews are due to this area, but the issues have been largely resolved with a recent patch by the developers. If you love you some dystopian science fiction, cyberpunk and George Orwell, then this city has all you could ever need. I can't wait to see what they've done with Marcuria over in Arcadia!

If you're a fan of the original two games, then get this game now!

10/10

Amazing sequel to Dreamfall. I am very pleased by what i have seen in Book One. If rest of game is as good as first part then its going to be real gem.

If i ever marry a girl and we adopt a child, it will be a bot.

Really good. Excellent narrative, voice acting and immersive world.

Really awesome! Waited really long and don't get dissapointed.

I played TLJ and Dreamfall: TLJ before, and this one continiues the story from the right angle and touches my feelings.

Amazing story and characters - I'm hooked. Can't wait to see the story fleshed out.

Since I had such high expectiations for the game, I thought I was bound to be a bit dissappointed by one thing or another, but that is actually not the case (After the initial steering issues and switching to a gamepad that is ;)).
I have tried out all different kinds of "decision-paths", am completely enraptured so far, and exitedly waiting for book 2.

RTG-Team, You did a marvellous job!!! :)

I guess there's some spoilers in this. If you loved the previous games, then definitely get it, but if you have no idea what this game is, then first play through at least Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, and if you're ever so bold to play through an old game then play the Longest Journey as well before you play this. It will be worth it, I promise. The game will be that more satisfying. Though if you want the real experience, play those games, then wait 8 years and then play this. That way you get the full waiting game down. I guess this is more geared towards people who played the previous versions.

A second sequel to the classic Longest Journey, however one doesn't need to play the first two to jump right into this game. I highly recommend the other games as the games do have journey in the name, and while someone could understand everything from the recap they have in the main menu, I thought of it as more of the developers strumming my nostalgic strings.

While there are problems with the game, the writing, music, and scenery still drive me to explore every bit of the game. The main problems with game I have are when the characters talk and the other characters they talk to don't seem to be engaged into the conversation at all. They devolve in this reserved blank stare as they are listening to the other speak, and the other speaking doesn't seem to maintain eye contact or even shift eyes or do any other special animations. Whil this was passable for old games in 2006, this is 2014, and we have super machines that can handle all the animations, so please animators or animation director or whatever, please unleash the full vision of the writers and artists.

Other than that I also still get graphic artifacts on my screen when walking around Europolis or whatever. Especially around the hotdog stand with the communist vendor. Socialism vs. Communism aside, I saw at certain angles when I tried to give myself the movie experience were bright red faded squares of light, but maybe that's just the developers giving me a hint. Karl Marx=God

Bad aside, the music is just too damn pretty and perfect. Maybe they hired Hans Zimmer, I don't know. Throughout the game I couldn't tell if I had shed a tear for the pretty scenic colors, the writing, or the music, and you damned developers outdid yourselves in that regard. The writing is certainly better in this, it feels as though my choices throughout the game actually matters, though I fear it's too much of a good thing and I'm going to be strong along in later chapters, please don't realize my fears. Probably because you flash this choice has consequences and so and so will remember this whenever I make any sort of decision. I'm so damn skeptical and think, "oh yeah sure." I'd get rid of that little text entirely, who the hell though of that? You're ruining my immersion damnit.

The writing might not seem so special for anyone picking up the game, but it's absolutely delightful when you've played through all the games. The first ♥♥♥♥ing minutes of the game had me glued to the screen because they made closure for April Ryan, and then they allowed Zoe Castillo to ♥♥♥♥ing grow as a character. Though I guess you cuold go the other road and keep her being an insufferable ♥♥♥♥. At least she's probably making a pretty penny by staying petty. Other things that find closure they finally end the vagueness while keeping up the mystery. For example, "the Vagabond" actually has a purpose now, he's your magestic mystic minority character, no but seriously I was always confused what the point of the vagabond was, and I didn't even know his name until they spell it out for you in this game. So while these characters have flesh out brilliantly, I also think that the writing staff also grew a little. That's to say in language too, I suppose. Though you all throw out ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥'s and bleep out the bloody's. What the b____y ♥♥♥♥ is that about?

Also great job bringing back wonkers. Nothing like reiterating that Zoe's only childhood friend was a robotic purple monkey. Also Olivia died, not sure why, will find out more I suppose. Maybe it was an infection from alll the piercings, her body became septic and ther was nothing the doctors could do. RIP Olivia.

Also good job toning down the sex appeal of Zoe in the first chapter, then totally just flashing some perfect ♥♥♥ in the second chapter, then while analyzing other characters asses, they are not so great.

Puzzles aren't as challenging as the previous games I guess, but I there's some confusing bits still, and I won't spoil the fun, but you might want to try looking up once in awhile. Also do less clicking and more thinking, you'll save more time than I wasted.

All around my complaints are just petty and nitpicky (just like zoe, did I say that? :O), and I believe anyone will throughly enjoy this sequel.

8 b____y mary's out of 10

Long time I didn't play an adventure game like this one, I really enjoyed it.

Well, I didn't play the previous stories, but I really love the idea of the choices and how they affect the gameplay in this one, also, it's not very long but leaves you with a lot of questions for the next chapters.

A great start for a new journey! Can't wait for the next book!

Please note that you should really play "The Longest Journey" and "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey" before playing this or it will make very little sense! There is a short "summary" of the previous game but nothing about from first one and it's really worth playing for the story and the characters.

Dreamfall Chapters is everything l have been waiting for. I would happily back anything relating to this game - MORE THAN A GAME - to ensure it is never compromised by lesser beings. Would have liked to move on with the game but will happily wait the next instalment. Have started following characters around Propas just to see where they end up?