
Emma de Vrijer , a holosculptor and gallery owner. Brian Westhouse, a former journalist and traveler later revealed as the Prophet. Benrime Salmin, the owner of the Journeyman Inn. Baruti Maphane, campaign manager for the Unity Party in Propast. Anna, a mysterious ranger who seems to know Kian. Epilogue: Those Who Walk Between WorldsĬategory Dreamfall Chapters Characters should list all characters that occur in the game. And you’ll learn the true identity of the Prophet. A Dragon strips down to the ‘bare essentials’ (if you know what I mean). The following paragraph contains two and a half falsehoods. Īn early post on Ragnar's blog gave the following hint: April Ryan's storyline is developed and even includes events set at various parts of the timeline, between the events of The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, before and after. Meanwhile, Kian escapes from Friar's Keep, where he was imprisoned, with the help of Balsay Bachim, who wants him to participate in the Marcurian resistance movement.Īccording to Ragnar the game features all of the main characters of the TLJ "saga". She also takes up one of two possible career paths, chosen by the player. She then wakes up from her year-long coma and moves to Europolis, where she gets involved in the upcoming election. At the beginning of the game, Zoë is still in the Storytime where she was at the end of Dreamfall, and is helping people to overcome their nightmares. Each book has its own self-contained story arc with a beginning, middle and end.ĭreamfall Chapters follows Zoë Castillo and Kian Alvane. The game is divided into 13 chapters and 5 books.
Here's the video, though if it doesn't work for you because computers, head direct to GameSpot.Ragnar confirmed that the story began where Dreamfall ended as well as rewinding to show some Dreamfall events from a different perspective, and that the story followed multiple characters, "both old and new, and there will be more overlapping paths and storylines". "You would select one answer and your character didn't really say what you intended him or her to say, so we feel like this is a good option to let you peek into the mind of the character you're playing, without spoiling the line-you don't exactly know what the character's going to say." "We felt a lot of other games didn't really let you predict what your answer would be," Tørnquist explained. As you consider which dialogue option to pick, your character will run an inner monologue, explaining more of what the situation means to them. The video shows off the first half of the adventure game's second chapter from a pre-alpha build, which sees returning Dreamfall character Kian Alvane in prison, sentenced to death.Īs you'd expect from such a dialogue-heavy series, it involves a lot of chatting, which gives a good look at the new dialogue system.
So how's it looking at this point? Pretty good, it seems, going by a new 27-minute gameplay walkthrough narrated by creator Ragnar Tørnquist and design director Martin Bruusgaard. It's been nine months since Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey smashed its crowdfunding goal (though over six years since the very first plans), and we have another eleven until it arrives in November 2014.