#Dreamfall chapters book 2 review tv

Kian’s imprisonment, meanwhile, proves short-lived, as he is rescued by the same Marcurian resistance he’d once worked against, which believes that he will be vital to their efforts. She eventually wakes up from her coma sans her memories of the events of the first Dreamfall reunites with her no-longer-missing ex-boyfriend, investigative reporter Reza Temiz and the two move from Casablanca, Morocco to Europolis, where Zoë attempts to build a new life for herself while attempting to better her mental state.

In the Dreamtime, Zoë begins to accept her role as a Dreamer, someone with the ability to interact in particular ways with dreams, and in turn alter reality. Not all will do so.Īnd so, we’re left with Zoë and Kian. Some people will come out the other side and live happy lives. It’s an early and forceful reminder of the sort of story The Longest Journey is. While she’ll continue being important, her story is over. Therefore, it was genuinely surprising that the very first images in Dreamfall Chapters are of April’s funeral. What’s more, works that kill off main characters of her stature tend to be ensembles, with a much broader focus than The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.

#Dreamfall chapters book 2 review tv

Were this a TV show or comic book, one would have expected April to somehow survive-the story began with her, after all, and there had been hints suggesting that she would survive until old age and fulfill some yet-unspecified role. April Ryan, protagonist of the first The Longest Journey, who had once saved two worlds and collected more names than Daenerys Targaryen, and currently spent her time fighting the Azadi occupiers in Marcuria, was stabbed and left for dead by Kian’s comrades. In Arcadia, the world of magic, Kian Alvane, the Azadi apostle who had begun questioning his faith and allegiances to his people, turned against his masters and was arrested for it. Zoë Castillo, the depressed college dropout from Stark (i.e.: future cyberpunk Earth) who had uncovered and stopped a conspiracy by the WATI mega-corporation to use their upcoming product to observe and steal peoples’ memories via dreams, had been placed into a coma by her mother, after which her consciousness made her way into a realm called Dreamtime. While exponentially less effective as a stand-alone story, it is nevertheless very much worth playing.Ĭhapters continues where its predecessor, the first Dreamfall, ended, with things going very badly for its three protagonists. As a conclusion to the story of The Longest Journey, it is as good as it could have been. However even as it struggles against its limitations, Dreamfall Chapters remains a singular, experience, and combined with its predecessors makes for one of my favorite stories ever. While its world is technically larger than its predecessors’ it feels like it should be larger still, and that it isn’t is behind many of its issues. 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.