Syberia 2 is a direct sequel - meaning the story of Syberia 1 simply continues and concludes here. So you could rather say that those two are more or less like one bigger game though the second is a little bit fifferent than the first one.

Not quite sure which gate you are referring to. I just looked the first gate up and Kate is saying "There's something missing" - for the the actual catacomb door she says "I cannot go that way" (which she could not as long as it was closed). For the catacomb door to be opened you need to play the organ.

Many thanks to Doc0075 for the donation and to Zeo for hosting the giveaway. :)

Korotan, enjoy Craft the World + dlcs!

It’s probably the first gate that blocks Kate. The right word is probably “cemetery” rather than “catacomb”-my vocabulary is just too limited for choosing the accurate words sometimes...anyway, IIRC there was info about that gate’s being closed until the mourning for Anna is over, but I don’t seem to remember seeing hints about any mechanics which opens the gate nor any clue that a day has passed. I didn’t play it continuously though, maybe I just missed something.

I would like to request hitman Absolution if it is still available.

NVM.....I did not spot the previous post requesting it. Sorry.

There is the gate at the church. When Kate is trying to open this one right at the beginning (before visiting the attorney) she says "It's locked - I come back when the funeral is over". This only means that you will have to do other things in town before coming back to this one. After visiting the attorney the gate is open. This way the game tries to prevent that you have too many open locations at once.

I think there is still a copy left.

there's also linux optimized trilogy in giveaway, if somebody's interested...

Oh, now I guess I see where I may have made a mistake. There is a baker who refuses to do business, stating something like “we are mourning for Lady Anna today, so come back tomorrow”. I took this, combined with what Kate says about the gate, as a hint that the gate won’t open until the second day...

Ha, no. After the baker told you to come back tomorrow Kate tells the baker that she won't be here tomorrow anymore ... meaning - the baker does not have anything interesting to say - he just wants to make clear why the streets are so empty :)

But I just took that as either I don’t really have to go pass the gate for the game to progress, or at least not before some events changing the date. Well, maybe this time I’m the one with the moon logic XD

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts and clarification, I may pick it up again some time ;)

I would say it is all thanks to the wonderful backgrounds, but I do not mean that they are beautifully done graphical(Yes, they are ). What I mean that they are mixture of mysterious Verne's science fiction and Romanticism' s nostalgia.

If it is possible I would nominate SirEyeball for Hitman: Absolution

It's a game where it divides people: either you love it or you hate it. It's sort of a niche. Both its strength and its weakness is that the game is designed very much like a book. In a book, you'd read about the sweeping environments, the crunching of the snow, the singing of the birds, etc. In the game, it shows you all this visually - and forces you to take it in by making you walk slowly, giving it to you via visuals rather than words (the same issue happens if you watch a movie directed by an author, like Coma from Michael Crichton or Maximum Overdrive from Stephen King). A lot of the appeal is based off the characters and your attachment to them. If you find them charming and memorable in an Alice-in-Wonderland sort of way, you'll form an attachment and love it (I mean, Syberia is the only game I can think of that actually lets you go back and say goodbye to people you meet before leaving an area). If they don't hold that kind of charm for you and you aren't taken in by the atmosphere, you'll find it a slow drag that has too much backtracking.

Granted.