![]() And yet, it’s still the stage play version of events: think the original Star Wars, with the camera never leaving the Death Star. That developer Red Thread’s scant resources are just about enough to give us the stage play version of events, and to do so fairly well, speaks highly of their commitment and passion. It’s a story about life, death, rebirth, dreams, identity, depression, growing up, relationships, addiction, conquest, colonialism, politics, passion, genocide, racism, complacency, sisterhood, guilt, redemption and whatever other theme you’d care to find. Too huge, really: it’s the finale to a story to a game released ten years ago, dealing with plot points and characters from a game released in 1999, featuring three worlds (or more, depending on how you count), two cities, four protagonists, and the answers (or simply answers) to a million different mysteries. ( Crow, Dreamfall Chapters, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Enu-Mar Sand'ya, Kian Alvane, Ragnar Tornquist, Saga Alvane, The Longest Journey, Zoë Castillo)ĭreamfall Chapters is huge. It is also a story about change, and how it can come about in very sudden, scary-but not necessarily unpredictable or surprising-ways. It is through Kian and Zoë’s eyes that we experience two very personal stories about, faith, renewal, acceptance, denial, and talking birds. Also, he is gay, which I mention because it is awesome. ![]() Kian Alvane, from Arcadia, is a former Apostle (read: faith-based assassin) for the Azadi Empire, until a chance encounter led him to doubt his faith and mission, eventually resulting in him defying his masters’ orders and getting branded a traitor and arrested. Zoë, from Stark, is a college dropout who is now attempting to put her life back together after she spent a week successfully stopping a corporate conspiracy and getting a year-long coma and amnesia for her trouble. presidential election, the game, mixing together cyberpunk (via the future Earth called Stark) and fantasy (in the magical world of Arcadia) invokes the past and future to say a whole lot about now.ĭreamfall Chapters mainly follows two characters, Zoë Castillo and Kian Alvane, who are both on journeys that began during the first Dreamfall. ![]() While I can say with a fairly high level of confidence that Ragnar Tørnquist and the other fine people at Red Thread Games were not in possession of a time window into this year, and that they were not attempting to write specifically about the latest U.S. And yet, as I replayed the game earlier this month, the game felt very specifically about another year entirely: this one, 2016. ![]() ![]() Development of the game officially began in 2013, after the developer’s Kickstarter was fully funded, and the story was based on ideas that were first kicking around since the original Dreamfall: The Longest Journey’s 2007 release, or maybe even 1999 when the first game in the series, titled simply The Longest Journey, was first published. ( Dreamfall, Dreamfall Chapters, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Kian Alvane, Ragnar Tornquist, The Longest Journey, Zoë Castillo)Ĭhapter One of Dreamfall Chapters was first released in 2014. «Dreamfall Chapters» is the most 2016 Game ImaginableĮnat 1:49 am ( Politics, Videogames & Vidcons) ![]()
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