This accounts for Kate and her girlfriend Katyusha, with whom she shares a cell, having buzzed haircuts dyed dark blue.
No explanation is offered for how she ended up here, despite the presence of an in-game journal providing sketchy details of Kate’s past from the point of view of private investigator Nic Cantin, who is still trying to track down Kate all these games later.Įvery inmate of the salt mines has been divided into a different coloured group, which get assigned to their own work details and are required to prominently display their colours on their person at all times. In her half of The World Before prologue, we find Kate, a year later in winter 2004, not in the sanitarium but a prisoner in a Russian salt mine, forced to perform hard labour in search of ivory. When we last saw Kate at the end of Syberia 3, she had been captured by soldiers and it was implied that she was being returned to a horror house sanitarium in a cliffhanger ending that was as unwelcome at the time as it was abrupt.
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Intercut with Dana’s scenes are what longtime fans of the series will be much more interested in: the fate of Kate Walker. With little time to invest in who Dana is, however, and no particular trajectory to her story other than her preparing to leave for a summer job, that part fell a little flat for me and I have no idea where it might be headed in the rest of the game. Later there are strong indications of racial prejudice towards her family and her people (clearly a Jewish allegory) from a fascist group known as the Brown Shadow. Not much really happens in Dana’s time period besides a majestic, cinematic orchestral performance with Dana on piano accompanied by a group of musically talented automatons that feels like vintage Benoît Sokal from the series debut in Valadilène. In the city of Vaghen, Osterthal in the spring of 1937, Dana is off to the town square for a music recital but is already looking forward to leaving her hometown to continue her musical studies. Then suddenly, out of the blue three years later, Koalabs Studio and Microïds delivered a surprise playable prologue for the upcoming Syberia: The World Before, and at first look it may just be a welcome return to form for the series.Īdding a new wrinkle, this latest installment introduces new playable character Dana Roze (pronounced Dawna, Day-na, or Dan-a depending on if you’re talking to her mother, father, or music teacher). And indeed, a long period of silence followed the initial announcement with no further word. After 2017’s disappointing Syberia 3, it seemed unlikely that Kate Walker’s journey would continue. When I first heard that a new Syberia game was in the works, I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April Fools’ Day.