Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today

If you are reading a review, you most likely intend to by the game. So be aware that while this is great game (more on that in a second) with an interesting story, it clearly was intended that there would be a second game which never was published and from the information available never will be. Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today therefore ends in a cliffhanger with many questions open, that most likely never will be answered (in game form). So, if something like that frustrates you, you should most likely not play it.

Regarding the game itself: Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today is classic point-and-click adventure in the best sense. You collect items, sometimes combine them, give them to people or use them in expected and unexpected ways. Ther is a lot of dialogue to choose from and things people tell you advance you directly and indirectly. The English version which I played had fully spoken dialogue, and your character also speaks out the comments he makes to you when you interact with the world. The game has quite a unique art stile and a few well placed “cut scenes” that are also “artsy” in their execution. The developers also made nice use of the possibility to combine several locations in one screen.

What is it about? Without saying to much – not to spoil anything – one can say, that it is a dark themed game. You play as Michael who wakes up after some kind of coma to find himself in a makeshift refugee camp. You soon learn that there was a major catastrophe that completely destroyed society, washing away the “Old World” making way for the “New World”. This “New World” is actually a very old one in my view, following the law of the jungle and hard, cold self-interest. If this was not bad enough, you also learn that there is a strange, horrible disease whose victims are called “the dissolved”. The illness frightens people and is victims are threated harshly by those in power. And last but not least as a simple inhabitant you might not leaf the “refugee camp” … so basically it is a prison camp. You set out to help the family who helped you, find out what happened to the world and recover your own identity in the process.

As mentioned above, a very good classical point-and-click adventure. As is the case with many of them some puzzles are a little bit far out there and a few “revelations”/twists were predictable. However, this did not hinder my enjoyment of the game. Also, my personal feeling was, that the first two parts (the game has four) were more flashed out and the last tow parts became shorter. Especially the last part felt a little rushed to me. It might be that this was for budget reasons or because they thought they would tell the rest of the story in a second game soon…

If you like dark but not pseudo-philosophical point-and-click adventures you definitely should have a look, if you can stand a cliffhanger ending.

Düsteres, aber gutes Klick & Point Adventure mit gut lösbaren Aufgaben in linearer Handlung. Aber speichert im letzten Kapitel oft. Es gibt einen Moment, den man nicht verpassen darf, um die Handlung abzuschließen!

Hmm... aus einer anfangs guten Story, entwickelt sich das ganze im letzten Drittel zu einer gewaltigen Katastrophe für den geneigten Spieler. Man merkt im IV Akt das für einen guten Schluß entweder das Geld zu knapp wurde, oder der Abgabetermin für das Game kurz zuvor stand. Kurz gesagt, das Ende gibt es nicht wirklich. Es bleiben zahlreiche Fragen unbeantwortet, in anderen Rezensionen ist von einem möglichen Teil 2 zu lesen, was man nach 9 Jahren nicht wirklich mehr glauben darf, obwohl bei Star Wars waren es ja auch solche Zeitsprünge.
Der grafische Aspekt ist für mich okay. Hier steht eben klar die postapokalyptische Story im Vordergrund. Die deutsche Syncro ist perfekt, was mich abtörnte war so ein wenig der Soundtrack, da hab ich schon wesentlich besseres genossen.
Da mich aber die ersten zwei Drittel sehr gut unterhalten haben, und auch in vielen Ecken ein sehr verschrobener morbider Humor vorhanden ist, gibt es von mir dennoch eine Empfehlung für dieses Spiel, allerdings solltet Ihr warten bis es im Sale für 99 Cent ist.

What we ve got here is an utterly classic (and I mean really, REALLY classic: Unbelievable, but truly with all the pros and cons those genre relatives the late 80s, early 90s) creation of a Dickesque-story-driven, Miller & Bisley-style Point&Click-adventure....and yeah, it s fun!
But well, where s light, theres shadow....same here: The dialogues are vey "spanish" in a hurtful way...watchers of mediterrian movies should know what I mean...the voice acting s well done, but is painful slow. (I recommend to play with subtitles only) and the end is not an end at all.
Beside all the flaws, it s a game definitely worth playing...buy it on sale.

Fängt schon mal sehr gut an für einen Groschen, sieht vielversprechend aus. (^.^)

Sehr gutes atmosphärisches Spiel mit leider etwas abruptem Ende.

Großartiges Spiel. Hoffe sehr ein zweiter Teil kommt noch heraus, welches das Ende besser aufklärt!