dreamfall: the longest journey

last week, i just completed my first proper pc game, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. the problem with me is, i can never patiently finish a game that has too many choices or paths to take. as in, say, if your character takes this path and does this instead of something else, the story ends up being different. or, if there is too hard a combat involved in the game i will just give up pressing left right up down altogether. i'm terrible with combat coordination. i'm even only just beginning to get a grasp of getting the camera view of the character steady. so anyway, lucky for me, i've found my lucky stars. Dreamfall is the ideal game for my kind of people. simple fighting and obvious goals to achieve. the story's very long, as the title suggests.

the female lead is Zoe Castillo, she's in a coma telling us her story. first setting in casablanca, in her room. she was watching her huge tv screen that appears on her glass walls and all of a sudden there was static and a black and white picture of a little girl calling her name. that part spooked the crap out of me. like what the hell...?! (hair standing) i thought this was the game with the freaky girl in the box cover of a game called F.E.A.R. see what i mean?? so anyway Zoe ignored it until she saw it a few more times on screens at other places she went to, asking her to save someone named April Ryan, and in conjunction there was the disappearance of her ex-boyfriend, Reza. turns out the reason why he has gone missing is because of the story he's been digging into, some evil plans he found out about this high-tech creation company called WATICorp (who has a similar company logo as sony ericsson! just look. haha)

so, on her trip to finding Reza, Zoe met some bad guys and they "hooked her up on the dreamer". the dreamer is a device that artificially puts you to sleep and you start dreaming. (duhz, ok sorry.) that brought her to a place, black and white snowy landscape with an eeriely crooked house. yes, that freaky little girl's world. so upon running towards the only target there is, the house, the snowy ground opens and Zoe falls into a medieval world. here, she finally meets April Ryan, but not before getting kidnapped by April's gang. however, April didn't need her saving at all so they tried tranporting Zoe back to her world and figured that she wasn't here physically but mentally, like a dream.

so the story goes with some role changing as you get to control April Ryan at one time, and another guy called Kian. he is an Apostle ruled by the Six (six goddesses) and was summoned to get rid of the freedom fighters who may overthrow their rule. and these disobedient citizens are actually April and her gang.

the game is good because you will want more and they do give you lots. some negative stuff though is that the game involves alot of pretty lengthy conversation, which you'll end up clicking to skip them. only some parts of the talking is important, tells you what to do next, but it's all logged down somewhere you can check back with later anyway. i'm personally a little disappointed with the finale though. for one, they are all conversations and cut scenes, secondly, the story doesn't really end, and thirdly, i just feel that something is missing at the end.