The Longest Journey Home was a Kickstarter stretch goal that was never reached.Īnd your point is? Ragnar said theyd make it anyways then what I chronicled is what happened. Originally posted by Deer Deity:Devs have already explained Dreamfall games are stories for Zoe and Kian, almost like sidestories that are in the same "universe". Still enjoyed my time a lot with the game though. Apparently time doesn't work the same in the house but then why does Saga still age? It's just bad storytelling ultimately which is a shame because everything else I've experienced in the TLJ universe has been amazing, including Zoe's genitals.Īlso, what's up with them not showing what happened in Europolis? It was a huge part of the entire game and we never got to see what became of it or it's citizens, I made tons of choices and it all amounted to no payoff. It would only make sense if Saga could time travel but time travel was never established in the story which makes it one of sloppiest cameos I've ever seen, that last little moment completely ruined the ending for me. Saga met with Zoe and Kian when she was young, after April died but originally April visited her through the secret door when Saga was old? They also put themselves into a hole by doing the little April Ryan cameo at the end which makes no sense at all. They spoke of making The Longest Journey Home which would be dedicated to April but Ragnar decided not to because.Money, probably? Truthfully, he's probably just burned out and wants to do something new. Now that the Longest Journey Home is never happening this is probably the worst, and most rushed, ending you could have given to April's story.ĭevs have already explained Dreamfall games are stories for Zoe and Kian, almost like sidestories that are in the same "universe".
April deserved better, and I rather feel that so did the players. okay, I would have gladly given it up for The Longest Journey Home. I'm afraid this exercise in trust failed. No, we can't tell how why or how she got that way, just trust us. Saga is cool, guys, the game tells us, take our word for it. "I'll tell you everything, later, I promise" she says, or a variant thereof, several times to characters before the scene pans away and figuratively slams the door on the player. The compounding effrontery is the fact that not only her past has taken present behind-the-scenes, but also her present and her future. At least none the player can witness in order to identify with her, and so there is not much to love about her. and turned her from a protagonist whose journey interested us into a plot convenience who has no journey.
#APRIL RYAN DREAMFALL CHAPTERS SERIES#
You managed to take April Ryan, a very compelling character who carried the debut of your series and who grew on most players.
from a narrative perspective it's obvious that she is April reborn, but some of her lines come across as if she considers April a separate entity instead of her past life, and it's frankly rather confusing coming from a woman who seems to know the exact time and place where she needs to be, and the items she needs to bring, to avert catastrophe at several junctures.Īnd, to boot, we have all that bit about 'songlines' that Saga discovered- once again, everything happened off-stage, in another time, out of sight from player eyes. Oh, and confused ramblings about her connection to April Ryan. The whole bunch of them that we never even get to see. and we don't get to see anything else, except the very end when she is an old woman as Lady Alvane and she reminisces about all of the apparently great adventures she had. The use of prophecy is the greatest show of laziness a writer can have: Why does the character do something? "Because prophecy." How do they know to do this other thing? "Because it was written."Īpril may have been reborn, but the event itself feels hollow because all we got to see of her was the prologue before her story could have gotten interesting, and then a piece of her in medias res where she's clearly gotten the hang of a lot of things, but we haven't seen how she came to be this way. The fact that Saga appears as an unexplained Deus Ex Machina at the very end just reeks of terribly lazy writing, especially when we haven't seen any hint of the journey she took from begin that rebellious teenager who decided to run away to the thirty-something♥♥♥♥♥kicker who apparently knows *very specific prophecies.*
My verdict: This ties up Zoe and Kian's story neatly, but it really does a disservice to April Ryan's story. I decided to wait for the final cut edition and played from the beginning again.
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