Senteria: I bought it on this sale. I will play it when I get back home. Is it comparable to Syberia in a way?
Kamamura: Syberia? Lol ;-) No, it's an altogether different beast, you will see.
It takes in a confined space of the Orient Express, where strange conspiracies take place.
What is unique is the fact that your character speaks several languages - I think English, French, and Russian, perhaps, and for those you see subtitles, but there are other nationals like Turks, Serbians, and them you hear in native language without translation. But the sentences make sense, I understood the Serbians a bit.
Other thing - there is a lot of paralel stuff going on, and the time never stops. While you eavesdrop on one event, you may miss another - difficult choices, and a constant pressure.
But the story, the characters, the nostalgia - it's soooo perfect.
One of the games I would give 10/10.
I remember talking to Mechner at the CGDA about Last Express and its ambitiousness. However, I was sorely disappointed by its unplayable nature due to bugs upon release. Have these been addressed?